BATON ROUGE — The Tigers held a rare in-season scrimmage, with officials, Saturday to get ready for Tuesday night’s game with Utah. LSU has been off since a win over Louisiana Monroe on Nov. 29. The Tigers have been off since then because of dead week and final exams.
LSU played four separate score quarter scrimmages, two of 12 minutes and two of 10 minutes. The Gold team was made up of the five starters – Jaime Lloreda, Brandon Bass, Antonio Hudson, Xavier Whipple and Regis Koundjia – against the remainder of the Tiger squad.
The two teams combined to shoot 48.4 percent from the floor, hitting 46-of-95 total shots, with 26 assists and 27 turnovers combined. Lloreda led LSU with 25 points and 11 boards, while Bass had 17 points, Antonio Hudson 13 and Tack Minor and Darnell Lazare 11 each. Whipple also had 13 assists on the afternoon.
The only injury was a cut over Ross Neltner’s left eyelid, but he was out only a short time and returned for later action. Trainer Drew Shea did not think stitches would be necessary and should not affect his status for Tuesday night’s game.
LSU and Utah meet Tuesday night at 8 p.m. on ESPN as the start of three home games in eight days before Christmas with LSU also meeting Southern Miss Saturday at 3 p.m. and Tulane on Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. Tickets for all three games are available on line at www.LSUsports.net and at the LSU Athletics Ticket Office. On game day, tickets will be sold at the upper ticket windows of the Maravich Center beginning 90 minutes prior to tip off.
INSIDE LSU BASKETBALL DEBUTS
The premier edition of “Inside LSU Basketball with Coach John Brady” debuts Sunday night at 10:35 p.m. in Baton Rouge on WBRZ-TV. The half hour show features Coach Brady and host Jim Hawthorne as they review weekly highlights and takes a look at various areas of the Tiger basketball program.
Sunday, the show will look at highlights from the Louisiana Monroe game and Coach Brady will take a look at the team’s weight work in the LSU weight room.
The show, which will also air during the week on Cox Cable Channel 4 and Cox Sports Television, runs each Sunday through the remainder of the basketball season.
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR SUGAR BOWL BASKETBALL CLASSIC
LSU fans are reminded that tickets are available online for the LSU basketball team’s appearance in the Nokia Sugar Bowl Basketball Classic set for Dec. 27 at the New Orleans Arena. Tickets for LSU’s game with Alabama-Birmingham can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com.
The Tigers game that day is set for 6 p.m. with Tulane and Mississippi State in the opener of the SEC-Conference USA doubleheader at 3:30 p.m.