Kentucky (12-3, 2-1 SEC)
vs.
Georgia Tech (11-4, 0-3 ACC)
Sunday, Jan. 15 – 12:30 p.m. ET
– Duluth, Ga.
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Television Coverage: Regional Sports Network (FSN South, Comcast SportsNet and Sun Sports)
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky women?s basketball team will take a short break from conference play when it meets Atlantic Coast Conference foe Georgia Tech in the Russell Athletic Shootout Sunday, Jan. 15 in Duluth, Ga. It will mark the first meeting between the teams in school history. Game time is set for 12:30 p.m. EST in the Gwinnett Center.
The game will be aired live on FSN South (television) and the Big Blue Sports Network (radio). The Georgia Lady Bulldogs and the Miami Hurricanes meet in the second game of the SEC/ACC double-header at 3 p.m. EST.
The Wildcats (12-3, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) are riding a three-game winning streak after upsetting Florida on Thursday, 80-65, in Gainesville. Florida was receiving votes in The Associated Press poll and was No. 24 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll. It was the Cats? first SEC win on the road since Jan. 25, 2004 and their first win in Gainesville since 2000.
?It was a great win for our program but we can?t dwell on it,? UK Coach Mickie DeMoss said. ?We have a very tough opponent coming up in Georgia Tech and we have to come out with the same intensity and aggressiveness that we did against Florida.?
It was a collective team effort in the win as Jenny Pfeiffer led four players in double-figure scoring. She recorded a season-high 23 points vs. the Gators, hitting 7-of-13 from the floor, including 6-of-9 from three-point distance. Jennifer Humphrey grabbed a career-best 19 rebounds in the winning effort while Eleia Roddy came off the bench for her third career double-double (10 points/14 rebounds). Freshman point guard Carly Ormerod recorded 16 points, a career-high seven rebounds and a career high-tying seven assists while UK leading scorer Samantha Mahoney followed with 13 points.
Mahoney leads four Wildcats in double-figure scoring, averaging 12.3 points per game. Pfeiffer has been a key reserve for Kentucky as she averages 11.7 ppg. Sophomore center Sarah Elliott and Ormerod follow in the scoring column with 10.5 and 10.3 ppg, respectively. Humphrey is the squad?s leader on the boards, averaging 9.2 rebounds per game. She has pulled down double-digit boards in three of the last five games.
Georgia Tech is 11-4 overall, 0-3 in the ACC after falling to No. 2 Duke Wednesday, 67-59. The Yellow Jackets have lost three consecutive games, all in conference play. Their only other loss came against SEC opponent Georgia in early December.
Like Kentucky, Georgia Tech has a sophomore as the team?s leading scorer. Chioma Nnamaka of Uppsala, Sweden averages a team-high 12.2 points per game, including 14.3 in ACC action. Junior guard Stephanie Higgs follows with 12.1 ppg and 17.3 ppg in conference games only. Sophomore Janie Mitchell follows with 10.6 ppg.
