BATON ROUGE — Fresh off a win over the nation’s No. 1 team, 66-65, over Arizona, the LSU Tigers broke into the Associated Press poll at number 24 Monday evening.
The position in the poll is LSU’s first time to break into the poll since the Tigers appeared in the final nine AP poll’s of the 2000 season when LSU advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
“If we don’t get ready to play Saturday, what we did will diminish real quick,” said LSU Coach John Brady on his weekly coaches call-in show Monday. “I’ve coached long enough to know that. (The win) came at a nice time. We met Sunday morning to discuss where we’ve been and where we are. We’ll come back Christmas Day at 6 p.m. and practice. We have to prepare for what lies ahead and forget about where we’ve been. It’s my job to get our team thinking about what we have to do this Saturday. We are excited about the challenges that lie ahead.”
The Tigers remain out of the top 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll, but received votes in that poll for the first time in four weeks.