The No. 12 LSU Tigers travel to Corvallis, Ore to take on the Oregon State Beavers at Gill Coliseum in the first of back-to-back road games against Pac-10 opponents. Tip-off is at 8 p.m. (EST) and the game is televised by FSN as part of its “Sunday Night Hoops” package.
LSU (5-2) will be playing its first game since its overtime 76-75 loss to Texas last Sunday and looking to avoid its first two-game losing streak of the season.
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Oregon State is 6-4 on the year and this will be the fourth game of nine straight at home for the Beavers, who do not leave home during the month of December. They started the set of games losing to Fresno State (69-74), before beating Bethune-Cookman (72-49) and Western Oregon (71-58). The Beavers' Marcel Jones had 20 points and 10 rebounds in the Bethune-Cookman win, but OSU struggled a bit against Western Oregon, a Division II school, only shooting 38.1 percent from the floor. Sasa Cuic scored a team-high 17 for the Beavers in that game.
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They have a very experienced front line back this season," LSU Coach John Brady said of OSU. "They had some ups and downs so far, but I know they are going to be ready to play us. I hear hey are treating this game like an NCAA Tournament game and are close to selling it out. We understand we are going to get their best shot because teams are excited to play LSU these days and rightfully so.
"Anytime you are on the road," Brady said, "if you don't prepare yourself mentally to play than anything can happen. I am sure having LSU coming into their building is going to motivate them to play their best. We have to be mentally ready to play or things are not going to go our way."
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LSU is giving an 11 ½ -point chalk as a road favorite offshore (-12 Vegas) with a total of 129. The Tigers have covered five of seven games listed on the Las Vegas and offshore board while OSU has gone four of seven ATS and covered its last two games -1 ½ at Montana State and +6 ½ at home to Fresno State.
