Rally not enough for men’s hoops

BY HENRY HUBER @HenryHuber_

Though the season isn’t close to over, it certainly feels that way.

Once again LSU didn’t appear competitive in a game it had a realistic chance to do so, facing off against the only SEC team it had previously beaten in Arkansas. And the first half may have been the worst the team has looked at any time this season.

Not only did it score a season-low 14 points in the first half, beating out the previous by a touchdown and shooting a staggering 12% from the field, but it also made Arkansas look like last season’s version of itself, as if it wasn’t missing two of its best players heading into the game. The Razorbacks put up 38 points in the period, shooting 58% from the field, finishing the half on a 23-3 run against a Tiger defense that seemed completely unmotivated to stop them.

Similar to its game against Auburn, a game where it got off to a rocky start before temporarily making things interesting early in the second half, LSU once again had a resurgent start to the period, beginning it with a 15-2 run that most fans probably missed.

Adam Miller scored nine straight points amidst that run, his only nine points of the entire game, as the Tigers nar-