(9) KY. WOMEN 61, (6) TENNESSEE 60

LEXINGTON, Ky. — With 12 seconds left, Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell decided to pull out a play that Tennessee had never seen on tape before. Never mind that his Wildcats had never run it this season, either.

A’dia Mathies heeded the coach’s call, drove the lane and scored in traffic with 4.2 seconds left and No. 9 Kentucky beat No. 6 Tennessee 61-60 Thursday night to snap the Lady Volunteers’ 36-game Southeastern Conference winning streak.

“I just took a one - on- one, got past her and I seen a couple of trees,” said Mathies, who finished with a career-high 34 points. “I shot it and it went in. I’m glad it went in.”

Mathies did it all for Kentucky and with the Wildcats trailing 60-57, she followed her own miss with a putback to cut it to one with 46 seconds left.

After Tennessee (12-4, 31) was called for a charge and Kentucky (15-2, 4-0) used a timeout, Mathies took the ball at halfcourt on the play named “one -four f lat” that basically clears her teammates out to help her avoid being double teamed.

Mathies dribbled into the lane and hit a 7-foot floater in the paint.

“We haven’t done that much — as in ever,” Mitchell said. “We couldn’t get a screen involved and A’dia had just taken us so far and brought us to that point, I thought we’d put the ball in her hands.”

It paid off despite a final chance by Tennessee.

Kamiko Williams drove the length of the floor, but missed an off-balance 16footer off the front rim as time expired.

“Mathies did a great job of getting to the basket,” said Tennessee’s Glory Johnson, who had 17 points. “We’re not going to look at that one play, we’re going to look at missed layups and missed free throws and turnovers and everything that happened that shouldn’t have.”

Tennessee rallied from 12 points down with 7:46 left to