Vols Seek Another Dominating Victory Over LSU
(utsports.com) BATON ROUGE, La. – Victorious in five of its past six games, the No. 5 Tennessee men’s basketball team is geared up for its second road contest in four days, as it travels south to face the Tigers of LSU Tuesday night at Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Tipoff is slated for 9 p.m. ET.
Fans can catch Tuesday’s game between the Volunteers (22-5, 9-5 SEC) and Tigers (14-13, 3-11 SEC) on SEC Network. Tom Hart (play-by-play), Dane Bradhsaw (analyst) and Alyssa Lang (reporter) will have the call. Fans can also listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to hear Bob Kesling and Steve Hamer describing the action.
In its most recent action, Tennessee faced an early nine-point deficit in a top-10 showdown at then-seventh-ranked Texas A&M, but clawed back to knock off the Aggies, 77-69, Saturday afternoon.
UT tied a program record with its seventh AP top-25 victory of the season, including its second top-10 decision of the month, behind a game- and season-high 30 points from Chaz Lanier, who notched 22 in the first half alone. The fifth-year guard hit a career-best eight 3-pointers, becoming the fourth Volunteer—fifth instance—ever to do so in a contest.
THE MATCHUP
• Tennessee has won its last three games against LSU, all by 14- plus points, with the last two by at least 20. Prior to that stretch, the Volunteers dropped four in a row, including three by at least a dozen.
• Of last 18 series games, dating to 3/11/10, 16 have been decided by nine-plus points. That includes 15 determined by double digits, 10 by 14-plus, six by 18-plus and four by 20-plus. The average margin of victory in that stretch is 14.0 ppg.
• This is the eighth time in the last nine meetings the Volunteers are ranked. They went 4-3 in the prior seven, including 3-1 with LSU unranked. This is also the third straight matchup with UT in the top 10 and the Tigers unranked.
• UT’s Cade Phillips and Ben Linnemeyer were prep teammates of LSU’s Corey Chest in 2022-23, helping Link Academy (Mo.) win the GEICO Nationals title.
• After going 17-16 (9-9) in 2023- 24, the Tigers placed No. 14 in this year’s SEC preseason poll.
• Senior guard Cam Carter paces LSU with 16.9 ppg and 2.7 apg.
