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Thursday, January 14, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Georgia finds some of Auburn's upset magic for an easy victory
The Associated Press
Georgia 87, Auburn 68
ATHENS, Ga. — Toney Mack and Patrick Hamilton scored 23 points apiece and keyed a late 28-10 run to spark Georgia to an 87-68 Southeastern Conference basketball victory over 19th-ranked Auburn Wednesday night.
The Bulldogs trailed for the first 30 minutes before Mack converted a three-point play midway through the second half to tie the score at 56-56.
Alec Kessler then hit two free
throws with 9-20 remaining to put the Bulldogs ahead to stay. Mack scored 11 points and Hamilton added nine in the 28-10 burst, which put Georgia in control with an 81-66 lead two minutes from the end.
Auburn, which knocked off nationally ranked Florida and Kentucky last week, scored the first eight points of the game and led 18-6 before Georgia rallied, cutting the halftime deficit to 37-35 when Hamilton hit a 60-foot despiration shot for a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
record at 2-2, and Auburn fell to 9-3 overall and 2-1 in the conference.
Georgia, 10-6, evened its SEC
The 23 points was a career-high for Hamilton, a junior. Kessler added 22 points for the Bulldogs, who were without star guard Willie Anderson, sitting out a suspension for violating team rules.
Chris Morris scored 27 points to lead the Tigers, who ran throughout the game after using deliberate tactics against Florida and Kentucky to make up for the loss of two inside starters — Mike Jones, for academics, and Jeff Moore with an injured
Pittsburgh 61, Connecticut 58
hand.
PITTSBURGH — Charles Smith, held to one point before halftime, scored 13 second-half points, including a clutch turnaround jumper with nine seconds left, as sixth-ranked Pittsburgh edged Connecticut 61-58 Wednesday in a Big East Conference game.
Freshman point guard Sean Miller scored 16 points and made four
consecutive free throws after Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun was called for two technical fouls with six minutes left as Pitt, 12-1, rallied from a seven-point deficit.
Miller's free throws made it 52-44 and Smith boosted Pitt's lead to 10 points by making two foul shots with 5:34 to play, capping a 14-2 Pitt scoring run.
Connecticut, losing for just the second time in its last eight games, cut the lead to 57-53 when Lyman DePriest hit two throws with 3:21 left. Smith and Jerome Lane
then each made foul shots before Phil Gamble made his third three-point goal of the half to pull the Huskies to within three points.
Tate George's driving layup with 58 seconds left made it 59-58 before Pitt began working the clock. The Panthers took two timeouts before Smith, with just one second left on the shot clock, threw in a desperation 10-foot turnaround just to the right of the basket.
The Huskies, 1-3 in the Big East.
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