From the final play to the whole 50-minute game to her 42-point performance in it, Makayla Epps didn’t need to say much more to describe what had just happened.”Crazy,” Epps said. “Complete craziness.”Epps, however, was talking only about the final possession that led to the buzzer-beating shot she used to send No. 10 Kentucky (19-5, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) to a thrilling 92-90 double-overtime win over No. 13/15 Mississippi State (23-4, 8-4 SEC). The play started when the Wildcats took possession following a Breanna Richardson basket with 35 seconds left. Matthew Mitchell didn’t call timeout, instead opting to tell Epps to run the clock down and attack as the shot clock neared zero.”I just thought it was kind of silly to have it in anybody else’s hands but hers there at the end, no matter if four were guarding her,” Mitchell said.Epps would get a good first look, but missed a short jumper. Somehow, Jelleah Sidney came away with the offensive rebound in a mad scrum as the clock reached five seconds remaining.”I feel like all 12 of my teammates crashed the glass on that one,” Epps said.”I can’t wait to watch it again,” Mitchell said. “It was a really incredible play.”From there, Sidney could do little else but fire the ball back into the fray.”Jelleah Sidney, sometimes she has the tendency to throw the ball really hard at us,” Epps said. “And she threw it really hard and it was bouncing off faces and noses and ears. And then I looked up and it was right there. ‘Go get it, Epps!’ “Epps got it, and put the ball on the glass and through the basket with 0.6 seconds on the clock.”And then Epps, we’d missed so many, and that one was as tough as any one that you’ll ever shoot and we make that one,” Mitchell said. “So go figure. Who knows? I can’t figure all this stuff out. I don’t know how we’re winning all these games.”Epps has a lot to do with it, especially on this night.Her buzzer beater brought her career high in scoring to 42 points, just one point shy of the school-record 43 Jennifer O’Neill scored in five overtimes against Baylor last season. She made 18-of-30 field goals and added six rebounds and five assists for good measure to outduel Bulldog star Victoria Vivians, who had 39 points of her own. “Especially at the level we’re at in the SEC, that’s not common,” Epps said. “That’s not something you see every month or every week or (anything) like that.”With Epps leading the way – including scoring UK’s final eight points in double overtime – the Cats weathered multiple furious Mississippi State rallies. Kentucky built and lost double-digit leads on four different occasions and the Bulldogs tied the game in the final seconds of regulation on a basket by Moran William. “I was glad she scored 42 and not 39,” Mitchell said. “We needed those extra three points that she had. So that was incredible. We didn’t look like we could win any other way tonight.”Epps is now seven games into her run as UK’s full-time point guard in place of the injured Janee Thompson. She’s now averaging 21 points in those games and the Cats have won five of them, two against ranked opponents.”I’m hoping that after every game she’s proud of me and that she’s happy I’m out here handling my business as she would if she was out there with us,” Epps said. “At the end of the day, it’s all for Janee. Regardless if I’m playing, Bria’s (Goss) playing good, the team’s playing good, in the back of our minds we’re all thinking about Janee.”