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A skirmish broke out in the second half of the contention game between Kentucky and Louisville on Saturday. (Record by Jeff Moreland/Icon Sportswire by assignment of Getty Photos)
Within the most in vogue model of the Kentucky-Louisville men’s basketball contention, the No. 5 Wildcats came out on top this year, notching a 93-85 victory in a match that took a feisty flip.
Louisville became down by as many as 11 aspects in the first half, but surged to a ability comeback in the second. On the opposite hand, Kentucky became in a neighborhood to assist off the upset with the assist of senior switch Lamont Butler, who build up a profession-excessive 33 aspects for the Wildcats after going 10-for-10 from the sphere.
The game became chippy, with Louisville racking up 20 fouls and Kentucky racking up 18. Two Cardinals fouled out of the matchup, with James Scott reaching five fouls fairly early in the second half, and Chucky Hepburn following him to the bench in the closing seconds of the game.
Issues came to a head in the closing minutes of the second half, when Cardinals guard Reyne Smith dove for the offensive rebound. Wildcats forward Brandon Garrison made contact with Smith’s head, prompting both teams to internet in direction of the Louisville bench.
Every teams came out of the reach upon fairly unscathed: Garrison picked up a gross, which became no longer elevated to a flagrant after evaluate. The game endured on, and Kentucky pulled additional out of Louisville’s reach.
Kentucky guard Otega Oweh hit two tall exclamation aspects on the procure, getting a snatch-and-dunk and a tall 3-pointer inner a minute. After a handful of free throws from Oweh and Butler, Oweh furthermore notched the snatch that sealed the procure.
With the victory, Kentucky is now 10-1. The Wildcats maintain overwhelmed Louisville 12 times in the previous 15 seasons, including the previous three years straight.