Tiger Basketball Team Back Home To Face Arkansas, 8:00 PM Tuesday – LSU

BATON ROUGE – The LSU men’s basketball team and the Arkansas Razorbacks meet for the first of two games Tuesday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The game is set to tip just after 8 p.m., and tickets for the contest are available online at LSUTix.net. Tickets will also be available one hour prior to drop off at the ticket windows on the upper level of the Maravich Center. LSU students are admitted free, and the first 250 will receive a free cheeseburger from game sponsor McDonald’s.

The Voice of the Tigers, Chris Blair, and former LSU men’s basketball coach, John Brady, will be on hand on the LSU Sports Radio Network (Guaranty Media flagship station Eagle 98.1 FM). Kevin Fitzgerald and Carolyn Peck will have the televised call on the SEC Network.

It will be another Beat The Buzzer night as select food and concessions will be half off from the time the gates open until 10 minutes before tipoff. The Air Elite Dunkers will appear at halftime and the new mid-semester enrollees on the LSU Football team will be introduced to the crowd.

Both teams come into the game at 11-5 overall and 0-3 in early Southeastern Conference play.

LSU is coming off losses at home to Vanderbilt and on the road last week at Missouri and at Ole Miss. The Tigers played better in the first half against Ole Miss, going on a 15-0 run to give them the advantage, but LSU was unable to capitalize on Ole Miss turnovers, scoring only 12 in the first half of the game.

The Tigers, as in their first two SEC contests, were able to score more in the second half, but couldn’t get a handle on the Rebels’ offense over the final 20 minutes.

Cam Carter continued his strong start to SEC play with 16 points. He is averaging 18 through the first three SEC games and is fourth in league scoring. His average of 17.1 points per match for 16 matches is ranked eighth in the league. Daimion Collins had 14 points on 6-of-8 field goal shooting at Ole Miss on Saturday.

Collins for the week scored 25 points and was 10-of-14 from the field. He is fifth in the SEC in two-point field goal percentage at 71.6 percent.

Arkansas comes to Baton Rouge off two SEC home losses to Ole Miss and Florida after opening with a road loss at Tennessee. Adou Thiero leads the Razorbacks in scoring with 16.9 points per game, with Boogie Fland at 15.5 points and DJ Wagner at 10.4 points.

Coach John Calipari is in his first season at Arkansas as head coach after his long stint at Kentucky.

LSU is back on the road this Saturday, traveling to Bryan-College Station to take on Texas A&M.