מעורב הופס (בקצרה): מייקל: סטיב קליפורד הוא אוצר! / מנחם לס

NESVILLE, Fla. — Patric Young scored 18 points in his final home game and No. 1 Florida routed 25th-ranked Kentucky 84-65 on Saturday, becoming the first team in Southeastern Conference history to go 18-0 in league play.

Fellow seniors Casey Prather (15) and Scottie Wilbekin (13) also reached double figures for the Gators (29-2, 18-0), who have won 23 straight and 32 in a row at home.

Good job … now what?

Florida became the fifth team to go undefeated in major conference play
since 1996-97. Here are how the others fared in the NCCA Tournament afterwards:

Season	Team	Conf	NCAAs
2013-14	Florida	SEC	?
2011-12	Kentucky	SEC	National Champs
2002-03	Kentucky	SEC	L, Elite 8
2001-02	Kansas	Big 12	L, Final Four
1998-99	Duke	ACC	L, Title Game
— ESPN Stats & Information

Coach Billy Donovan called timeout with 36.9 seconds remaining to get his four seniors another standing ovation.

They certainly deserved this one.

Young, Prather, Wilbekin and fellow starter Will Yeguete have now won 113 games in four seasons, four shy of tying the school record held by Walter Hodge.

The latest one seemed a lock early but was in doubt for a while in the second half.

Julius Randle, who had his right knee treated during the first half, led the Wildcats (22-9, 12-6) with 16 points and 10 rebounds. James Youngadded 14 points, and Aaron Harrison chipped in 10.

With Florida's ranking, the finale for four popular seniors, history at stake and the opponent, it was the biggest home game in school history. Single tickets to the nationally televised matchup were going for as much as $500 on the street, and there even was a successful marriage proposal on the court beforehand.

The Gators delivered, especially early.

Florida made 14 of its first 21 shots. Young, who scored 14 points in the first half, did most of the damage inside. Michael Frazier II, who made a school-record 11 3-pointers Tuesday at South Carolina, got hot again from outside.

Frazier's consecutive 3s pushed the lead to 19 and had the O'Dome rocking.

The Gators were up 22 after Dorian Finney-Smith's third 3 of the half and led 49-28 at the break.

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ORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Its NCAA chances all but gone, West Virginia showed it still has some fight left in a lackluster season.

West Virginia built a 25-point lead and had to withstand 41 points by freshman Andrew Wiggins and a furious comeback by No. 8 Kansas to upset the Jayhawks 92-86 in their Big 12 regular-season finale Saturday.

"We just had to stay composed, not get too down, don't say, `dang, they're going to come back," said Eron Harris, who led West Virginia with 28 points. "You've got to always have confidence in your team that you're going to win."

The Mountaineers (17-14, 9-9 Big 12) could have finished with a thud like they had in losing four of their five previous games that reduced them to playing for a spot in the NIT.

The young Mountaineers, who have no seniors, watched Kansas tear into the deficit behind Wiggins, who set a season high for scoring and a freshman record for the Jayhawks before fouling out in the final seconds. He also eight rebounds, four blocks and five steals, to go along with 12-of-18 shooting from the field. Ben McLemore has the Kansas single-game freshman scoring record with 36 last season.

West Virginia made some clutch free throws in the final minute to thwart the comeback and keep coach Bob Huggins' sanity intact.

"When we get a little more experience, we'll handle those things a little better," said Huggins, who earned $25,000 for beating Kansas in the regular season, one of the bonus clauses in a 2012 contract extension.

Juwan Staten added 24 points and Devin Williams, WVU's star freshman, had a season-high 22 points along with 13 rebounds. It marked the first time this season that Kansas had allowed three opposing players to score 20 points.

"I thought Staten controlled the game," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "Harris was terrific and Williams was by far the best big in the game.

"They were terrific and then we didn't guard at all. We've gone through stretches this year where we haven't guarded well, but that's probably as poor as we've been. But give them credit, they were a lot better than us offensively than we were defensively."

West Virginia shot 53 percent from the floor and outrebounded Kansas 37-31.

Perry Ellis added 14 points for Kansas (23-8, 14-4), which clinched its 10th straight regular-season title a week ago and had little riding on this game. The Jayhawks will have a first-round bye in the conference tournament that begins Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas was without 7-foot freshman Joel Embiid, who sat out his second straight game to rest a lower back strain. Tarik Black, starting in Embiid's place, went to the bench with his second foul four minutes into the game.

The Mountaineers led nearly the entire game but fell apart down the stretch. Still, West Virginia managed to beat a ranked team for the third time in seven tries over the past month.

Kansas went more than seven minutes without a field goal spanning the halves and found itself with its biggest deficit of the season, 64-39, with 16:43 left in the game after a Harris 3-pointer.

But the Mountaineers have had trouble holding double-digit leads this season, and Kansas — especially Wiggins — was hardly done.

West Virginia struggled against Kansas' full-court press, and Wiggins followed Landen Lucas' three-point play with four free throws and a 3-pointer over a 47-second span to pull Kansas within 7

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