CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014\u00a0No. 17 Kentucky (9-1) took control in the third quarter Wednesday night to defeat Miami (5-3) 64-48 in the SEC\/ACC Challenge as senior guard Tonie Morgan scored 20 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Senior guard Tonie Morgan’s 20 points led No. 17 Kentucky to a 64-48 defeat over Miami
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Morgan had a three-point play and a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions to start a 12-0 run in the middle of the third quarter that gave the Wildcats a 45-28 lead
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Junior center Clara Strack added 13 points, nine rebounds, four assists and four steals<\/p>\n
Morgan had a three-point play and a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions to start a 12-0 run in the middle of the third quarter that gave the Wildcats a 45-28 lead. The Wildcats made nine of 15 shots. Miami made five of 10 but had six turnovers while Kentucky did not have a giveaway.<\/p>\n
Junior center Clara Strack added 13 points, nine rebounds, four assists, four steals and two clocks while senior forward Teonni Key had 11 points.<\/p>\n
Both teams shot a frigid 31% in the first half, going a combined 3-19 from 3-point range. The Wildcats led most of the way, including 26-23 at the break.<\/p>\n
Morgan hit a jumper to open the fourth quarter, and junior guard Asia Boone followed with a 3-pointer for a 55-38 lead and the Hurricanes never got closer than 15 points over the last nine minutes.<\/p>\n
Sophomore guard Gal Raviv scored 11 points for Miami.<\/p>\n
Coach Kenny Payne’s Wildcats return home to the Historic Memorial Coliseum to face Central Michigan Sunday, Dec. 7. Tipoff is noon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014\u00a0No. 17 Kentucky (9-1) took control in the third quarter Wednesday night to defeat Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10929,1238,274,2205,5460,60,2563,5458,123,125,124,115,5459,110,278,26795],"class_list":["post-70961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-app-college-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-bowling-green","tag-kentucky","tag-lexington","tag-louisville","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-northern-kentucky","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-topic-latest-local-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}