BATON ROUGE — The 23rd-ranked LSU men’s basketball team hopes to continue its home court success at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center as the Ole Miss Rebels come to town for a 1 p.m. Saturday regionally televised Southeastern Conference basketball game.
Tickets for the game will be on sale starting at 11:30 a.m. at the upper concourse ticket windows of the Maravich Assembly Center. The game will be regionally televised throughout the Southeast on Jefferson Pilot Sports and on radio throughout Louisiana on the LSU Sports Network and on the Internet at www.LSUsports.net.
One fan will have the chance to shoot for $10,000 during the contest and halftime entertainment will feature Lou Mac and the Frisbee-catching dogs.
LSU has won all 11 home games this season in posting a 12-2 record (1-1 in the Southeastern Conference), including a win last Saturday over seventh-ranked Mississippi State. The 11 wins is the eighth longest winning streak in the 31-year history of the Maravich Assembly Center. LSU is coming off an amazing performance in a 112-65 win over Centenary in which the Tigers shot 70.3 percent from the field, setting a mark for field goal percentage in the Assembly Center.
No one on the Tiger team played more than 20 minutes and 12-of-15 players who played logged at each 10 minutes. In the last two games against Mississippi State and Centenary, the Tigers are 77-of-115 from the field, 66.9 percent.
Ole Miss (9-4, 0-2) has not played since a last-second loss to Tennessee in Oxford, 66-64, last Saturday. Aaron Harper, who had a career high six treys against UT, leads the Rebel starters in scoring, averaging 13.5 points per game. Justin Reed, the junior from Jackson, Miss., has been coming off the bench to score an averaging of 13.7 points a game.
The teams have split games the last two years and the last three wins for LSU have all been by four points or less. The past three years, LSU has played Ole Miss at home in the regular season finale.
LSU is expected to go with its normal starting lineup of Torris Bright (the league leader in assists), Collis Temple III and Antonio Hudson at guards and Ronald Dupree and Jaime Lloreda. Dupree is averaging 15.6 points per game and Lloreda leads the league in field goal percentage at 64 percent.
The Tigers hit the road for a week after this game, going to Arkansas on Wednesday and Mississippi State for a return match on Jan. 25.