Kentucky needed a win badly, and they achieved it on a day when Lamont Butler made his return. They secured the victory with a strong second-half performance that ultimately put South Carolina to sleep.

Instead, the South Carolina men’s basketball team fell to No. 14 Kentucky, 80-57, on the road Saturday. USC head coach Lamont Paris had been 2-0 against the Wildcats before this one. “That’s a tough one,“ Paris said “… We didn’t play well enough.”

Otega Oweh scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and No. 14 Kentucky snapped a two-game skid with an 80-57 win over South Carolina.

Mark Pope's Kentucky basketball team stormed past South Carolina on Saturday to avert the first three-game losing streak since the 2020-21 campaign.

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After missing three games with a shoulder injury, the Wildcats’ Lamont Butler returned to make his presence felt against South Carolina.

A fter back-to-back losses and losing 4 of their last 5 games overall, Kentucky needing to get back in the win column on Saturday against a South Carolina team that is 0-9 in conf