The Kentucky Wildcats are set to face the South Carolina Gamecocks on Tuesday evening. Kentucky leads the all-time series, 51-12.

Head Coach: Frank Martin (7^th season at South Carolina)

Record: 11-10 overall, 6-2 in SEC

Likely Starters:

#4 Tre Campbell: Graduate Student, 6-0. 6.1 PPG and 1.9 AST.

#00 A.J. Lawson: Freshman Guard, 6-6. 13.2 PPG and 4.3 RBS.

#24 Keyshawn Bryant: Freshman Forward, 6-6. 9.1 PPG and 3.6 RBS.

#21 Maik Kotsar: Junior Forward, 6-11. 8.4 PPG and 5.2 RBS.

#30 Chris Silva: Senior Forward, 6-9. 14.1 PPG and 7.0 RBS

South Carolina Threats:

Standout senior Chris Silva has two or more blocks in 12 games this season. He leads the team with a 65.1 field goal percentage, and he became the first Gamecock ever to have 500 career free throws and 700 career rebounds in South Carolina history.

“He presents a major challenge for us. He’s very physical, gets fouled a ton, has a great sense you know of number one creating fouls, drawing fouls,” assistant coach Joel Justus said on Monday.

“I think whenever you’re playing a team South Carolina, you’ve got to be prepared for the physicality and their playing fast on offense, they make you work before you get the ball on offense,” Justus said.

On Paper

Kentucky	Category	South Carolina
79.2	Scoring Average	75.2
65.9	Opponent Scoring Average	74.0
+13.3	Scoring Margin	+1.2
.481	Field Goal Percentage	.432
.407	Opponent Field Goal Percentage	.421
.752	3-Point Field Goal Percentage	.328
.688	Opponent 3-Point Field Goal Percentage	.354
6.2	3-Point Field Goals Made PG	6.9
17.3	3-Point Field Goal Attempts PG	20.9
.752	Free Throw Percentage	.708
.688	Opponent Free Throw Percentage	.737
38.7	Rebounding Average	36.8
29.4	Opponent Rebound Average	36.2
+9.3	Rebounding Margin	+0.6
13.2	Turnovers Average	13.9
14.5	Opponent Turnover Average	15.3
14.4	Assists Average	12.8
5.3	Blocks Average	4.7
6.7	Steals Average	6.1

The Wildcats and Gamecocks will square off Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Rupp Arena. The game will be broadcast on SEC network.