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BIG GAMES AT MEMORIAL COLISEUM
February 28, 1982
SEC Championship
Led by SEC Tournament MVP Valerie Still
and all-tournament selection Patty Jo Hedges,
the Lady Kats defeated Tennessee, 80-74, to capture
the SEC Championship in Memorial Coliseum.
Following the game, the ecstatic home
crowd stormed the court for a victory celebration
that lasted nearly 30 minutes.
February 5, 1983
On this date, 10,622 enthusiastic fans packed
Memorial Coliseum to watch sixth-ranked Kentucky
come from 10 points down in the second
half for an 80-66 upset win over No. 5 Old
Dominion. The crowd was the largest in history
to watch a women’s college basketball game, and
during the Cats’ three remaining home games,
UK played to an average of 7,600 fans.
January 24, 1986
After dropping six of its previous 11 games, Kentucky
regrouped to upset the 11th-ranked Tennessee
Lady Vols 96-82 before a Memorial Coliseum crowd
estimated at 3,400. Forward Leslie Nichols led UK
with 26 points, 19 in the first half. Debbie Miller
had 20, while Karen Mosley and Jodie Whitaker
each added 18 points as Kentucky recorded its
largest margin of victory over the Lady Vols. Former
Lady Vol All-American Cindy Noble was serving as
a UK assistant coach under Terry Hall.
January 23, 1991
Trailing 65-64, Kentucky’s Pattresa Leonard
sandwiched two free throws around a Florida timeout
with :29 left, and blocked a shot by senior
Florida center Erika Lang 20 seconds later to help
Kentucky to a 67-65 victory vs. Florida. Junior
guard Kristi Cushenberry, who led UK with 18
points, scored her 1,000th point on this night.
December 5, 1992
The Cats won their 13th UK Invitational
Tournament with a 75-54 win over national
powerhouse Connecticut, which featured sophomore
Rebecca Lobo, who would later become
one of the most heralded female players ever.
January 19, 1993
Sophomore Stacey Reed drove to the Coliseum’s
midcourt and made a three-point desperation
shot as the horn sounded to push UK to a
62-60 victory over 17th-ranked and 1992 NCAA
runner-up Western Kentucky. The win marked
the second consecutive year the Cats had beaten
nationally ranked WKU in the final seconds of
the game.
January 16, 1994
Suffering from a sore back, Tedra Eberhart
scored six of Kentucky’s final 10 points and
broke a 71-71 tie with SEC foe Mississippi State
with 3:19 left on the clock for the 81-79 win.
The victory marked No. 300 for head coach
Sharon Fanning.
February 7, 1999
Playing host to Coach Bernadette Mattox’s
alma mater Georgia, the Cats defeated the
eighth-ranked Bulldogs, 80-76. It marked UK’s
first win over UGA in six years and Mattox’s first
over a top-10 opponent.
January 6, 2000
LaTonya McDole hit a running one-hander in
the lane at the buzzer to give the Cats a 71-69 upset
over No. 5 Auburn in the Cats’ SEC home opener.
Despite playing with foul trouble most of the game,
McDole led UK with 21 points in the Cats’ first
win over a top-five opponent in 15 years.
January 29, 2004
It was an exciting and emotional conference
matchup, as border rival and top-ranked Tennessee
met Kentucky in the second-largest
attended women’s basketball game in Memorial
Coliseum history. After spending 18 seasons on
the sidelines at UT, Coach Mickie DeMoss went
head-to-head with her former boss Pat Summitt.
Trailing by only five points with two minutes
remaining and despite a career-high 29 points from
Sara Potts, the Wildcats fell to the Lady Vols 81-72.
March 24, 2005
Senior Sara Potts sank a jumper from the left
wing with 35 seconds remaining, as Kentucky rallied
from a 14-point second-half deficit to defeat
Xavier, 67-62, and advance to the semifinal round
of the WNIT. The shot by Potts, who scored 29
of her 31 points in the second half, gave the Wildcats
their first lead since the 17-minute mark of
the first half.
January 14, 2007
This was a special day in Memorial Coliseum
as over 570 Kentuckians, who made the
ultimate sacrifice in the U.S. Armed Forces,
were honored during halftime of the Ole Miss
game. Since its completion in 1950, Memorial
Coliseum has borne the names of thousands of
Kentucky’s war dead. But the lists of names –
framed and hung on the walls of the ramps along
two sides of the coliseum – had not been updated
since the end of the Vietnam War. Their
names now join those of their predecessors along
the walls in the Coliseum.
January 20, 2008
Kentucky hit a season-best 20-of-24 free
throws and out-rebounded Auburn 44-34 to take
a thrilling 62-55 win against the No. 20/18 Tigers
in front of 4,511 fans. It was the Cats’ first win
against a ranked opponent of the season and the
first win over Auburn in Memorial Coliseum
since 2000. Kentucky native and senior Chelsea
Chowning, who played just eight minutes in the
game, came off the bench to drain a pivotal threepointer
to give the Wildcats the lead with 2:09 to
go. She hit 3-of-4 free throws in the game’s final
two minutes, including one after Auburn head
coach Nell Fortner was assessed a technical foul
with 31 seconds left in the game.
March 21, 2008
Kentucky battled back from an 11-point
deficit to notch a 68-66 overtime win against
Middle Tennessee in the second round of the
WNIT. Sophomore Lydia Watkins charted her
first career double-double with 16 points and 16
rebounds. With time ticking down in overtime,
MTSU’s Amber Holt nailed a wide open three
pointer with five seconds left to cut UK’s lead to
just one, 67-66. MTSU fouled Chelsea Chowning
with two seconds to go and she hit one of
two free-throw attempts to clinch the victory.
March 26, 2008
Senior guard Samantha Mahoney turned in
the finest performance of her career by scoring a
personal-best 30 points, including five threepointers,
to help direct the Wildcats to an 84-76
win over James Madison in the third round of
the WNIT. Mahoney, who helped the Cats rally
from a six-point second-half deficit, became the
first Wildcat to score 30 or more point in a game
since standout Sara Potts scored 32 against
Xavier in the 2005 WNIT third round.
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