BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s basketball team looks to get back on the winning side of the ledger Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. as they host the Arkansas Razorbacks in a Southeastern Conference game at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
The game is designated as “Kids Day” as all children 3-12 get in for just $5. The first 500 kids will receive the specially designed LSU Growth Chart featuring All-Americans Glen Davis and Sylvia Fowles and following the game, the movie “Cars” will be shown on the scoreboard Tiger View video screens.
Admission is $14 and $5 for youth (3-12). However, those fans showing a baseball ticket from the LSU-St. Mary’s game (at noon) at baseball can get in as well for just $5. The game will be regionally televised throughout the Southeast on Lincoln Financial Sports (WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge) and the radio broadcast will be available on the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network (flagshipped by Eagle 98.1 FM in Baton Rouge) and at LSUsports.net. in the “Geaux Zone.”
LSU is 13-10 overall, 2-7 in the SEC after losing six straight games for the first time since the 2002 season. LSU is coming off a two-game road trip in which it lost at Mississippi State last Saturday, 85-78, and Tuesday at Tennessee, 70-67. Arkansas is 15-8, 4-5 (tied for second) in the SEC Western Division after a home win on Wednesday against Auburn (65-57).
“It there is ever a time for a team to need a win, it’s ours,” said LSU Coach John Brady. “We’ve got to play more consistently on the offensive end and execute better. Our team is in a difficult spot. Saturday’s game is a win that we need to have and hopefully we’ll be ready to play and do what’s necessary to win the game.”
Tasmin Mitchell equaled his career high in the game at Tennessee with 23 points and Glen Davis will be looking to get 14 points to reach the 1,500 career-scoring plateau.
“This team hasn’t functioned as well as some of my teams in the past,” said Brady. “The inconsistency of some players is something that we are continuing to work on and hopefully we’ll get better at it. We tried hard at Tennessee, but we just don’t execute as we needed to.”
The Tigers go back on the road trying to break an 0-5 mark in the league on Wednesday, traveling to Oxford for a 7 p.m. Lincoln Financial television game with Ole Miss. LF Sports will also televise LSU’s next home game on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. against Mississippi State in the Maravich Center.