The Gators (18-8, 8-5 Southeastern Conference) led by just three points with 1:25 left. But Hayden hit a turnaround to get the lead back up to five.

Arkansas' Dana Cherry led all scorers with 25 points. Shameka Christon added 12 points and 11 rebounds for Arkansas (16-10, 6-7).

Brandi McCain scored 15 points for Florida, but only made 3 of 18 shots from the field. Courtney Cooper added 11 for the Gators.

Arkansas, primarily a jump-shooting team, had trouble matching up with the post presence of Hayden. The Razorbacks picked up a total of 25 fouls, and India Lewis and Kiesha Beard fouled out trying to guard Hayden.

No. 4 Tennessee 86, Mississippi 69
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- Kara Lawson scored 24 points as No. 4 Tennessee beat Mississippi 86-69 Thursday night to capture its fifth consecutive conference title.

Tennessee (23-3, 12-1 Southeastern Conference) needed a victory and a South Carolina loss to clinch the SEC regular-season championship. Auburn beat the No. 10 Gamecocks 67-49 Thursday.

The Volunteers led by only four late in the first half before going on a 9-2 run. Tennessee built its lead as high as 17 points in the second half.

Mississippi (11-15, 3-10), which has lost five of six and 17 of 19 to Tennessee, was outrebounded 53-28. The Rebels made four 3-pointers in the opening four minutes, including one by Von Kirk, to take a 12-8 lead. Kirk led Ole Miss with 30 points.

The Rebels, however, missing four straight, and Tennessee went on a 19-4 run. Lawson hit a 3-pointer during the surge to give the Volunteers a 27-16 lead with 8:44 left.

Ole Miss pulled within 36-32, but Tennessee made the second run to take a 45-34 lead at the break.

The Rebels never got closer than 10 points again.

Michelle Snow scored 20 points for the Volunteers.

Auburn 67, No. 10 South Carolina 49
AUBURN, Ala. (AU Sports Information) -- Auburn scored the first 23 points in the second half and went on to upset 10th-ranked South Carolina 67-49 on Thursday night in the Tigers' final game at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum this season.

The Tigers (15-11, 3-10 SEC) also used a 10-0 run midway through the first half to take a 22-14 lead before the Lady Gamecocks (21-5, 9-4 SEC) cut the lead to 24-21 at the break. Auburn then held USC without a point in the second half until a lay-up with 11:20 to play in the game.

Senior guard Carol Smith, playing in her final home game, led the way with 22 points, including three 3-pointers. Nancy Derrick, a South Carolina native making her first start since Jan. 24, added a career-high 16 points and hit eight of 10 from the free-throw line. LaKeisha Johnson chipped in 13 points and five rebounds all in the second half.

Petra Ujhelyi was the lone USC player in reach double figures with 10 points. Auburn's defense held the Lady Gamecocks to their second lowest point total of the season and held USC's leading scorer, Jocelyn Penn, to just six points, and none in the second half.

The Tigers hit 46.7 percent (21-45) from the field, including five of nine from 3-point land. USC connected on just 20 of 66 (30.3 percent) shots from the floor. The rebound totals were equal at 38 each with Le'Coe Willingham leading the Tigers with 11. Penn led USC with eight boards.

Auburn connected on 20 of 27 free throws in the game, including 14 of 18 in the final 20 minutes.

Senior center Brandi Hillman made a return to the court to play in her final home game in a Tiger uniform. She had missed the last nine games with a broken foot and scored two points and grabbed one rebound in 17 minutes of action.

No. 6 Vanderbilt 73, Kentucky 57
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Chantelle Anderson scored 28 points, and Zuzi Klimesova had 16 points and 10 rebounds as No. 6 Vanderbilt beat Kentucky 73-57 Thursday night.

Freshman Ashley Earley added a career-high 16 points and seven rebounds for the Commodores (23-6, 9-4 Southeastern Conference), who have won three of their last four.

Rita Adams and Shambrica Jones had 12 points each, and SeSe Helm added 11 to lead the Wildcats (8-18, 1-12), who lost their 12th straight.

Anderson, who made 12 of 16 shots, scored the first seven points of the second half to give Vanderbilt a 46-24 lead. Kentucky got no closer than 15 the rest of the way.

Vanderbilt led by as many as 21 on several occasions. An 11-3 run gave the Commodores a 69-48 lead with 3:57 remaining.

Vanderbilt, which beat Kentucky 71-54 on Jan. 10 to start the Wildcats' losing streak, shot 53 percent to Kentucky's 42 percent and outrebounded the Wildcats 37-21.

Kentucky's only lead came on Rita Adams' long 3-pointer less than a minute into the game.

Anderson and Earley scored 10 of Vanderbilt's first 12 points, most coming from within six feet of the basket. Jenni Benningfield's 3-pointer gave the Commodores a 15-10 lead at the 12-minute mark.

Earley scored six straight points to spark a 16-4 run, increasing the margin to 37-21 with 1:47 remaining. Anderson scored the team's final three points as the Commodores held a 39-24 halftime lead.

Vanderbilt shot 57 percent in the first half to Kentucky's 38 percent and outrebounded the Wildcats 22-8.

No. 23 Georgia 73, Alabama 62
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Freshman Kara Braxton scored 23 points, helping No. 23 Georgia rally to a 73-62 victory over Alabama on Thursday night.

Braxton committed her fourth foul with 17:59 to play with Georgia (18-8, 6-7 Southeastern Conference) up by four. She re-entered with 7:19 to play, and the Lady Bulldogs clinging to a 50-48 lead. Braxton scored eight of Georgia's next 10 points to put the game away.

Georgia freshman Ebony Felder finished with 19 points and a game-high nine rebounds, but it was her first game in six in which she failed to rebound in double digits.

Shondra Johnson led Alabama (16-10, 6-7) with 22 points.

In the first half, the teams traded the lead eight times and were tied five times.

Georgia's Camille Murphy and Mary Beth Lycett made consecutive 3-pointers to give the Lady Dogs a brief 20-14 lead. Alabama took its last lead of the half, 21-20, after Shun Hunter's short jumper.

Georgia led 28-26 at the break.

Alabama led 43-38 with 12:03 remaining after Beth Vice's basket, but the Crimson Tide failed to make another field goal until Johnson backed in for a layup with 3:31 to play. Alabama was outscored 22-8 during its drought.

LSU 88, Mississippi State 77
BATON ROUGE, La. (MSU Sports Information) -- LaToya Thomas scored 33 points and Tan White added 26, but it wasn't enough for Mississippi State, as the Lady Bulldogs dropped an 88-77 decision to LSU at the Maravich Assembly Center Thursday evening. The loss drops State to 17-10, 7-6 in the league, while LSU improved to 15-9, 8-5. Mississippi State is now 0-16 in games played in Baton Rouge.

LSU shot 59 percent from the field in the first half, while holding the Lady Bulldogs to just 40 percent, to take a nine-point lead into the break, at 41-32. LSU opened the second half with a 20-5 run to take its largest lead of the game, at 61-37, with 12:42 left to play. State fought back to pull within 10, 78-68, with 3:05 to go. MSU got as close as seven in the final minute.

Mississippi State shot 39 percent from the field while connecting on just 6-of-27 shots from 3-point range. LSU, on the other hand, shot 57 percent from the field and was 17-of-21 from the charity stripe. LSU was credited with 29 assists and 12 turnovers.

Thomas, a national player of the year candidate, grabbed 11 rebounds to record her twelfth double-double of the season. Her 33 points mark her fourth 30-plus point outing in the last six games. White grabbed nine rebounds as the duo combined for 59 of State's 77 points on the night. Keisha Stringfellow scored six points and Renea Jones added five for the Lady Bulldogs.

Six players scored in double figures for the Lady Tigers. Aiysha Smith scored 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting to lead LSU. Doneeka Hodges added 16 points while Temeka Johnson and Scholanda Dorrell chipped in 14 points, each. Guards Ke-Ke Tardy and Roneeka Hodges both scored 12 points.

LSU came into the game short-handed, with just seven players, after losing its third player to an ACL injury in practice on Wednesday. Tardy fouled out with 3:05 remaining, reducing LSU to just six players in uniform for the final three minutes.