... in 2004, your #9 University of Kentucky Wildcats moved to 21-4 on the season with a 70-64 win in Baton Rouge. The win clinched at least a share of the SEC Eastern Division title for the fifth straight season.
Leading for all but 14 seconds of the game, Tubby Smith's team went 6-6 on free throws in the final 35 seconds to put away the Bayou Bengals. Gerald Fitch, the squad's lethal sixth man, led the way with 23 points on 6-10 shooting (5-8 3PM). Fitch ended the 2003-04 campaign with 79 3PM, good for the 6th all-time. Not too shabby for the sixth man. The victory was UK's 5th straight (and most recent) on a leap day. The Cats own a 7-2 record all-time on February 29th. Kentucky would go on to win the SEC Tournament (Tubby Smith's last), before getting upset by UAB in the NCAA's second round.
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