6:05 pm
January 22

#13 LSU @ #24 Tennessee

Who will WIN this matchup?

#13 LSU Tigers (15-3)

@ #24 Tennessee Volunteers (12-5)

 

Current odds:

LSU Tigers: (+190)

Tennessee Volunteers: (-230)

 

• The spread for the game is Tennessee by 5.5 points.

• The No. 13 Tigers (15-3, 3-3, SEC) lost starting point guard Xavier Pinson to a knee injury against the Volunteers and he hasn’t played since. Darius Days, the team’s second-leading scorer (13.5 points per game) and leading rebounder (7.3), injured an ankle in a 70-67 loss at Alabama on Wednesday. Pinson and Days are both questionable for Saturday’s game against No. 24 Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.

• The Volunteers (12-5, 3-3) bounced back from a 28-point loss to Kentucky last Saturday to defeat Vanderbilt three days later after coach Rick Barnes tweaked his starting lineup.

• Tari Eason, who averages a team-best 16.0 points per game, led the comeback against the Crimson Tide with a career-high 26 points and 10 rebounds. He had 24 and 12, respectively, when the Tigers posted a 79-67 win over Tennessee on Jan. 8 in Baton Rouge, La.

• The Volunteers had 14 steals among Vanderbilt’s 21 turnovers. Uros Plavsic scored 12 points in the previous encounter against LSU. He got the start over senior John Fulkerson, who had started all 14 previous games in which he had played.

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#24 Tennessee Volunteers
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