The LSU women’s basketball team tied a record for the lowest number of points allowed in program history when Centenary scored just 19 in LSU’s 92-19 victory to open the season.But the No. 7 Lady Tigers (1-0) will have a much tougher test tonight against No. 24 Middle Tennessee (1-0) at 7 p.m. in the PMAC.LSU coach Van Chancellor said the intensity between the Centenary game and Middle Tennessee will undoubtedly increase.”It will be like the swamplands of Louisiana landing on the moon,” Chancellor said. “That’s about the same amount of jump. We’re going from a team that couldn’t score on us to a team that’s going to score every time you turn around.”LSU faced Middle Tennessee in its fourth game of the 2008 season and let a 10-point lead evaporate. Middle Tennessee, led by guard Alysha Clark, converted seven 3-point shots in the second half to win by four points, 79-75.Chancellor said the LSU defense needs to contain Clark, who led the nation in scoring last season and accumulated a game-high 37 points in the last matchup between the teams.”[Clark] will be one of the top three players in the draft,” he said. “She shoots the 3-ball extremely well, she puts it on the floor and she is as good a low post player as there is in the country … We’ll probably be happy if we hold her to about 30 [points].”Chancellor said the Lady Tigers have a better grasp of the defensive scheme now as opposed to a year ago, when LSU had six freshmen players on the roster.”We know how to spell defense this year,” Chancellor said. “Last year, I had a team that couldn’t spell it and couldn’t play it. We had freshmen come straight out of high school where every time you touched somebody it was a foul. In the [Southeastern Conference], nothing is a foul.” The Blue Raiders return all five starters from the 2008 season, when they finished 28-6 and lost to Michigan State in the first round of the NCAA tournament.LSU senior guard Allison Hightower scored 19 points and played all 40 minutes against Middle Tennessee last season, both team highs.Chancellor described Middle Tennessee as “vastly underrated,” and he said LSU might even be slightly overrated.”I’m not saying we should be the 27th team in the country,” he said. “We’re probably somewhere between 12 and 14. We’re still going to start two sophomores, so we’re just not the most experienced.”Hightower outscored the entire Centenary team Sunday with 20 points and went 4-of-4 from 3-point range.A player who has made a splash in the Lady Tigers’ lineup this year is freshman Adrienne Webb. The Madison, Ala., native had two steals and five points, including one shot from behind the arc, against Centenary.”In her first live game, she shoots a 3-ball the first time she touches the ball on offense,” Chancellor said. “Most freshman who come in here, there’s a shot they don’t want to shoot anymore and you want to challenge them but they go into a shell — not Adrienne Webb.”- – – -Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]