The Alabama Crimson Tide was riding a three game winning streak going into Saturday’s game with Kentucky, and for the first 17 minutes of the game it looked like the streak might reach four. With 3:29 left in the first half the Tide held a lead of 46-34, but were outscored 13-0 thereafter and entered the half trailing 47-46. Kentucky won the game 90-81 and improved to 22-5 overall, 11-3 in SEC play.
Bama built the lead on the back of some uncharacteristically hot shooting from three point range. At one point the Tide had made nine of 12 from deep.