Men’s Hoops Travels to Florida to just take on Gators

Fresh off a convincing 77-54 get in excess of Texas A&M in its SEC opener, the LSU men’s basketball team (6-1, 1-) hits the road and usually takes on Florida in the O’Connell Heart.

The final time we noticed the Tigers, freshman two-guard Cam Thomas put on a display scoring a time-higher 32 points in opposition to the Aggies Tuesday night time. Florida played the adhering to evening and won its conference opener in opposition to Vanderbilt in Nashville, 91-72.

Thomas stays LSU’s primary scorer with 24 factors a match. But LSU has a plethora of scoring choices together with Trendon Watford, 16 points a recreation, Darius Times, 15 details a game, and Javonte Wise, 13 points a recreation. It should really be pointed out that LSU scored 77 factors Tuesday and only acquired a mixed 6 from Watford and Intelligent.

Florida has plenty of offensive firepower at their disposal as nicely. Tre Mann is the main scorer with 14 factors, though Scottie Lewis and Noah Locke are appropriate at the rear of him with 13 and 10 details respectively. Colin Castleton experienced a large night time versus Vanderbilt, scoring 23 factors and hit 11 of 13 shots.

Saturday will be the very first dwelling sport for Florida considering that Keyontae Johnson, the SEC’s preseason player of the year, collapsed on the court versus Florida Point out on December 12. Johnson was identified with a coronary heart swelling that might be connected to Johnson tests optimistic for COVID-19. Johnson is out for the remainder of the year, but will be on the sidelines with his teammates.

LSU and Florida have found pretty a lot of every single other in modern many years. The Tigers and Gators have played multiple situations a calendar year in 4 of the previous six seasons, and the two are scheduled to meet in Baton Rouge on February 6.

LSU leads the all-time sequence in opposition to the Gators, but have traditionally struggled in the O’Connell Centre. The past time LSU played in Florida, the Tigers experienced a depressing evening and dropped by 15.

Tipoff is scheduled for 1:00 P.M. and will be broadcasted on CBS.