John Clay’s Sidelines

Photo by David Stephenson.

News and notes from South Carolina’s 78-77 win over Kentucky:

• Here’s the link to the Herald-Leader slideshow on the game.

• Billy Gillispie’s post-game press conference.

• Darrin Horn’s post-game press conference.

• This was South Carolina’s first win in Rupp since 1997, and just its second win in Lexington in 23 tries.

• Kentucky committed 21 turnovers, the ninth time this year it has topped the 20-turnover mark.

• South Carolina had more offensive rebounds (18) than defensive rebounds (17).

• This was Billy Gillispie’s first home-floor conference loss at Kentucky.

• Kentucky shot 52.1 percent, and suffered its first conference loss shooting over 50 percent since Feb. 25, 2007. The Cats shot 58.1 percent at Vanderbilt, but lost 65-63.

• After scoring two points in the first half, Jodie Meeks scored 18 in the second half.

• DeAndre Liggins made two of seven shots. He’s made five of 23 shots in his last two games.

• Michael Porter did not score in 23 minutes. He’s scored three points in his last four games.

• UK actually figured out to 1.044 points per possession, compared to 1.038 for South Carolina. But the stats figured out to 75.1 possessions for Carolina and 73.8 for Kentucky.

• Billy Gillispie said, and Perry Stevenson confirmed, that Stevenson was supposed to call timeout the second time UK tried to in-bounds the basketball. But Stevenson said that Meeks was open, and he thought Meeks could get the ball to halfcourt.