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- Saturday, December 30 1978 -
(at Louisville, KY)
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Kentucky - 81 (Head Coach: Joe B. Hall) - [Ranked 13th by AP]
| Player | Min | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | St | BS | TO | Pts | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Verderber | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 
| Lavon Williams | 34 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 
| Chuck Aleksinas | 27 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 
| Kyle Macy | 38 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 
| Truman Claytor | 36 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 
| Dwight Anderson | 19 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 
| Jay Shidler | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 
| Clarence Tillman | 18 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 
| Fred Cowan | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
| Team | 3 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 200 | 32 | 66 | 17 | 23 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 81 | 
Notre Dame - 76 (Head Coach: Digger Phelps) - [Ranked 2nd by AP]
| Player | Min | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | St | BS | TO | Pts | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando Woolridge | 23 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 
| Kelly Tripucka | 35 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 
| Bill Laimbeer | 23 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 
| Rich Branning | 34 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 
| Bill Hanzlik | 29 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 
| Stan Wilcox | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 
| Tracy Jackson | 23 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 
| Bruce Flowers | 18 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 
| Team | 4 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 200 | 29 | 55 | 18 | 20 | 27 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 76 | 
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| Prior Game | | | Next Game | 
| Syracuse 94 - 87 | | | Florida 65 - 76 | 
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Dwight "The Blur" Anderson (#23) scores in front of Notre Dame's Kelly Tripucka and Orlando Woolridge (#32)
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Truman Claytor (#22) tracks down the ball while Notre Dame's Orlando Woolridge and Kentucky LaVon Williams look on
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NBC's Al McGuire and Dick Enberg interview Dwight Anderson and Joe Hall after the game
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