If you’re going to cap off an improbable run by a senior class, why not finish it off with a celebration of an improbable comeback?Trailing by five points with barely more than a minute remaining, the Kentucky women’s basketball team pulled off a miraculous come-from-behind win on Senior Night at Memorial Coliseum when sophomore guard A’dia Mathies banked in a layup with 4.4 seconds to lift the Cats to a thrilling 55-54 win in front of 6,670 fans. Arkansas guard C’eira Ricketts had a final heave from midcourt at the buzzer but it missed well right. “What a heart-stopping, thrilling win,” head coach Matthew Mitchell said.Better yet, what a heart-stopping, memorable win for a pair of seniors, Victoria Dunlap and Carly Morrow, in their final game at home.”It was really a great finish to send out Victoria and Carly the right way,” Mathies said.Mathies used a screen at the top of the key with the clock winding down for the game-winning drive. The sophomore guard dribbled right, cut back into the paint and then laid it off the glass with her left hand.”I felt great once she attacked off the first couple (screens) and got everyone on her side and then when I saw her come back the other way, I knew she could get to the bucket then,” Mitchell said. “That was tremendous poise. She made it look pretty easy, but that was a very difficult play that that young woman just made.”It was the second clutch play from Mathies in as many weeks. Her assist to Brittany Henderson in the final seconds of the LSU game provided the Cats with the win over the Tigers.”She is just a very talented player and can see the floor and make good decisions,” Mitchell said of Mathies, who finished with a game-high 17 points and team-high nine rebounds. “We want the ball in her hands.”How UK got that final play was hard to imagine. Leading by 15 in the first half with its typical pressure defense, the Cats looked poised to run away with the game. Arkansas star Ricketts was frazzled and the Razorbacks were having trouble just getting the ball past midcourt. In an ever-so subtle way, UK let its guard down. By halftime, the lead was down to seven, and by the 12-minute mark of the second half, Arkansas had taken a 37-35 lead on a 3-pointer by Ricketts. The Hogs, on the back of a surreal 15-0 run, built the lead to 40-35 and led by as many as seven points as late as 4:31 left in the game.On a scale of memorable senior sendoffs, this one was shaping up to be somewhere between nightmarish and unimaginable.”That was laying heavily on my mind,” Mitchell said. “I would have been devastated if Victoria Dunlap and Carly Morrow walked off on a lackluster performance like that.”UK went back to its full-court press late in the game and hung around long enough to give itself a chance. A tip-in from Dunlap with 1:10 cut the Arkansas lead to 54-51 and paved the way for the two biggest defensive plays of the game.Inbounding the ball from the baseline, the Hogs turned it over when freshman guard Maegan Conwright reached in and tipped a pass away to Dunlap. The senior got fouled and went to the line for two free throws, which she calmly knocked down. Arkansas got the ball in play on the next possession, but Delgado stepped on the out-of-bounds line in front of Mitchell on a cross-court pass from Ricketts with 17 seconds left. Mathies did the rest from there.The nights of Dunlap (12 points, seven rebounds and four steals) and Morrow (zero points in three minutes) wasn’t representative of the type of careers they’ve had, but a win was the only truly way to honor the seniors for their accomplishments over the years.Before the last two seasons, Kentucky was stuck in a decade of mediocrity. With the help of the seniors, including Amber Smith, who will return next year as a senior because of a season-long knee injury, UK looks to be headed to consecutive NCAA Tournament berths for only the second time in school history. The charge started in large part to Dunlap’s sophomore-to-junior transformation, Smith’s fiery energy and the leadership of Morrow. To lose on their day of recognition would have been a disheartening taint on otherwise immaculate careers. “I was trying not to think about it,” Dunlap said. “I was trying to keep my head up and my teammates going but I had thoughts about what was going to happen (if we lost). I tried to stay confident and positive about us winning the game.”The comeback capped a 30-2 run at home for the seniors over the last two years, a perfect end for the leading ladies of a comeback program.”It was great to go out with a win,” Dunlap said. “I’m happy.”