
John Wall and Patrick Patterson, the two leaders for the Kentucky Wildcats, played big today helping the team come from 11 points down for a 73-67 victory over Alabama in the quarterfinals of the SEC Men’s Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee.
The heroic freshman, Wall, put the team on his shoulders scoring a game-high 23 points adding seven rebounds and five assists. But not to be out done was junior, Patterson, who scored 20 points and was absoluely clutch from the free throw stripe connecting on all eight of his attempts.
Freshmen guard, Eric Bledsoe, scored some timely buckets in the second half with forward, DaMarcus Cousins, fighting through double-teams all game long scoring seven points and grabbing eight rebounds.
The turning point in the game had to be, Darnell Dodson’s, three pointer just before halftime to bring the Wildcats (30-2) within five points at 35-30 headed into the intermission.
Despite Kentucky carrying their momentum into the second half the Crimson Tide (17-15) would simply not go away. Bama senior guard, Mikhal Torrance, continuously rallied the troops scoring 20 points while going 9 of 10 from the charity stripe.
Alabama dominated Kentucky on the glass, winning the rebounding battle 44-32 but somehow the young Wildcats willed themselves to victory.
After the win, head coach John Calipari said, “We need to get better or will be going home after the next round to get ready for that other tournament.”
Kentucky will play Tennessee in the semifinals tomorrow at 1pm on ABC. Haap.






