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Kentucky outlasts Texas A&M, picking up ranked win over Aggies
By Andrew Olson
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Kentucky picked up a key SEC win on Tuesday night. The No. 8 Wildcats defeated the No. 11 Aggies 81-69 in Lexington.
UK and TAMU played a tight game early. A&M, down Wade Taylor IV, led for over 10 minutes in the SEC clash. The last time the Aggies were in front was 32-31 with 52 seconds left in the 1st half. Kentucky pulled ahead for a 35-32 lead at the break and never looked back.
Mark Pope’s team managed to outpace Buzz Williams’ squad, but Texas A&M never went away. In fact, the Aggies had the 2 high scorers of the 2nd half, with Pharrell Payne scoring 13 and Zhuric Phelps adding 10 points. Phelps finished as A&M’s top scorer with 21 points, while Payne had 15 in the game.
Two double-digit scorers in the 2nd half, however, were not enough to overcome a balanced effort from Kentucky.
Otega Oweh led UK’s 2nd-half effort with all 11 of his points in the game. The Wildcats got 2nd-half points from all participants except Ansley Almonor. UK finished out 5-of-5 for the 12-point win.
For the game, Kentucky’s Jaxson Robinson was the leading scorer with 22 points on 8-of-17 shooting from the field, including 5-of-13 from 3-point range. Andrew Carr joined Robinson and Oweh in double figures with 13 points.
Kentucky improves to 14-3 overall with a 3-1 mark in conference play. Texas A&M is now 13-4 and 2-2 against SEC teams.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
