Jan. 26, 2000
By TOM SALADINO
AP Sports Writer
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) – Tayshaun Prince didn’t do much until it counted.
The Kentucky sophomore scored six of his 14 points over the final 3:35Wednesday night and the 16th-ranked Wildcats continued their domination ofGeorgia with a 75-69 victory.
It was the Wildcats’ 13th straight win over the Bulldogs, who last beatKentucky on Jan. 8, 1994, 94-90 in overtime.
Kentucky (14-5, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) won its fourth straight overalland 10th in 11 games.
“In the end, he stepped it up,” Kentucky coach Tubby Smith said of Prince.
“He was really concentrating on defense most of the game. I guess that’swhat it was,” Smith said, tongue-in cheek, of his 6-foot-9 forward, who hadonly four points at halftime on 2-of-7 shooting. He wound up 6-of-15, but was2-for-2 down the stretch.
Prince didn’t mind Smith’s humor.
“With the game on the line, I’m willing to take the ball to the basket,”he said.
Saul Smith’s 3-pointer 3:42 into the second half gave Kentucky a 52-43 lead,but Georgia (9-10, 2-5) tied it 64-64 with 3:47 to play on a basket by AnthonyEvans.
“I thought we played well,” Georgia coach Jim Harrick said. “We stoppedtheir transition game in the second half. We had a couple of key missed freethrows and turnovers that hurt us and they hit every big shot and capitalizedall of their possessions late in the game.”
Prince and Jamaal Magloire, who led Kentucky with 19 points, got the bigbuckets late, sparking an 11-5 run over the rest of the game after Georgia hadtied it.
Prince put the Wildcats ahead to stay at 66-64 with a basket with 3:35 leftand Magloire made it 68-64 55 seconds later.
Georgia got within two points twice more, but Prince’s basket with 1:40 leftmade it 70-66, and Magloire’s basket with 42 seconds to play made it 73.69.
Shon Coleman led Georgia with a career-high 26 points, while D.A. Layneadded 17 and Evans had 12.
Freshman Keith Bogans, who had 14 points, scored Kentucky’s last eightpoints of the first half to give the Wildcats a 43-37 lead.
Smith added 10 points for Kentucky.
