For a moment there, it looked like Dontaie Allen was going to beat Mississippi State again. The redshirt freshman from Pendleton County finished with 23 points, 20 in the second half, including six threes. What would have been the seventh could have kept Kentucky’s season alive, but hit the back of the rim and sailed through the air into Abdul Ado’s hands as the buzzer sounded on the Cats’ 74-73 loss.
“You can’t really ask for a better shot, especially from someone like me who has an awful lot of confidence in himself,” Allen said afterwards. “I had it lined up straight it just hit the back end, so, you know.