The Kentucky women?s basketball team travels to Oxford, Miss on Super Bowl Sunday to face Ole Miss at 3 p.m. ET at the C.M. ?Tad? Smith Coliseum. All the action can be heard live on WLXG-AM Sports Radio 1300 with Chris Cross.
The Wildcats (9-10, 1-5 Southeastern Conference) are looking to snap the Lady Rebels? six-game win streak at home and chart its second straight conference road win. The Cats defeated South Carolina in Columbia last Sunday.
Kentucky is coming off an exciting and emotional conference matchup against border rival and top-ranked Tennessee on Thursday. After spending 18 seasons on the sidelines at UT, Coach Mickie DeMoss met her former team and went head-to-head with her former boss Pat Summitt in a game that saw the second-largest attendance in Memorial Coliseum history with 8,429 fans. Despite trailing by only five points with two minutes remaining and a career-high 29 points from Sara Potts, the Wildcats fell to the Lady Vols 81-72.
Ole Miss returns to action after a bye-week. The Lady Rebels last played on Sunday at Vanderbilt where they lost 90-65. However, Ole Miss has seen a drastic improvement from last season?s 12-16, 1-13 SEC record. Like Kentucky, Ole Miss is rebuilding with a new head coach. Carol Ross took over her alma mater this season after serving as the head coach at Florida for 12 seasons (1990-2002). The Lady Rebels are 12-8 overall, 3-3 in the SEC with wins over UGA, Florida and Mississippi State.
?Ole Miss is a very tough team and especially tough at home,? DeMoss said. ?They upset nationally-ranked Georgia and Florida and they are a much better team that last year. We have to keep our intensity on the road and continue to take care of the basketball.?
After a 29-point performance on Thursday, Potts became UK?s leading scorer with 15.5 points per game. SeSe Helm and Jenny Pfeiffer follow with 14.6 and 11.8 ppg, respectively. Potts has scored in double-figures in 17 of 19 games and needs 141 points to become the 24th member of UK?s 1,000-point club.
Freshman Armintie Price is leading Ole Miss in scoring with 14.0 points per game and 9.7 rebounds per game. Senior guard Genice Terry follows with 13.2 points per game. Junior center Amber Watts is averaging 10.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per game and posted 20 points and 13 boards in the Lady Rebels? double-overtime win over Georgia. Junior guard Carletta Brown is contributing 9.0 points and 4.5 assists per game.
UK owns a one-game win streak vs. Ole Miss after defeating the Lady Rebels 83-66 last season in Lexington. However, the Lady Rebels lead the series 17-5, including an 8-2 advantage when playing in Oxford.
