- Saturday, December 23 1961 -
Kansas State - 67 (Head Coach: Tex Winter) - [Ranked 4th by AP]
| Player | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick McKenzie | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| J. Phil Heitmeyer | 3 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Mike Wroblewski | 7 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 22 |
| Richard Ewy | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Allen Peilthman | 2 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Warren Brown | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Gary Marriott | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Joe Gottfried | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| George Davidson | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 5 | |||||||
| Totals | 24 | 76 | 19 | 33 | 50 | 24 | 4 | 67 |
Kentucky - 80 (Head Coach: Adolph Rupp) - [Unranked]
| Player | FG | FGA | FT | FTA | Reb | PF | Ast | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Burchett | 4 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| Roy Roberts | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| Cotton Nash | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| Scotty Baesler | 5 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 |
| Larry Pursiful | 7 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 26 |
| Allen Feldhaus | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Jim McDonald | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Team | 2 | |||||||
| Totals | 25 | 63 | 30 | 38 | 54 | 23 | 11 | 80 |
| Prior Game | | | Next Game |
| Tennessee 96 - 69 | | | Yale 79 - 58 |
