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Strong start pushes LSU to a 76-68 win over Mizzou in SEC
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Tari Eason led 5 gamers in double figures and fifth-seeded LSU used a giant begin to roll to a 76-68 win over Twelfth-seeded Missouri within the second spherical of the Southeastern Convention match on Thursday.
Xavier Pinson and Darius Days mixed for LSU’s first 14 factors and a 10-point lead, and when Eason hit a jumper with lower than 5 minutes to go within the first half, LSU was up 34-9.
Days had 10 of his 16 factors within the first half and Pinson had all 11 of his. Efton Reid added 12 factors and Eric Gaines had 11 for LSU (22-10), which performs fourth-seeded and Fifteenth-ranked Arkansas within the quarterfinals on Friday.
LSU middle Efton Reid, left, fouls Missouri guard Javon Pickett (4) as he goes up for a shot throughout the second half of an NCAA males’s school basketball sport on the Southeastern Convention match in Tampa, Fla., Thursday, March 10, 2022.
(AP Photograph/Chris O’Meara)
DaJuan Gordon scored 19 factors, Trevon Brazile had 15 and Javon Pickett 14 for Missouri (12-21), which did not get inside double figures till scoring the final basket of the sport.
Mizzou battled again behind Gordon and Ronnie DeGray III to chop the deficit to 16 on the half. Gordon hit two 3s and had eight factors and DeGray had a 3 and his three-point play closed it to 39-23.
Missouri’s downside was turnovers, 15 that LSU was 21 factors whereas capturing 50% within the half.
Pickett had a 3-pointer and Kobe Brown added a three-point play as Missouri had an 8-2 spurt early within the second half and twice bought with 10.
LSU then put collectively a 12-0 run that included six factors from Reid and 5 from Eason to push the lead by to 22 with 9:11 left. Missouri scored the final 9 factors of the sport to make it respectable.
Missouri completed with 24 turnovers that had been was 29 factors. LSU shot 56% for the sport however had 11 turnovers within the second half.