The LSU Men’s Basketball Team defeated Arkansas to win their first game of SEC play. Coming from three straight loses, all in conference play, the Tigers managaed to gain some comfidence and show their potential when this team plays as coach Matt McMahon expects.

“Our guys stayed focused and did enough to win. Did a well job executing.”

Offensively LSU managed to gain some momentum scoring 28 points in the last 8 minutes.

Mike Williams III stepped up and impressed coach McMahon, having his best performance of the season.

“Really proud of Mike, coming back from Christmas, he’s been really good in practice. He has earned the opportunity tonight, he was great, hit a very important three for us, made a lot of important plays, needed him on the floor on those last 11 minutes of the game,” said LSU’s head coach.

Another player to highlight was Damien Collins with 10 rebounds, blocked 4th shots, hit some big three throws.

Cam Carter was LSU super star tonight finishing with 27 point and four defensive rebounds. He was pleased to see the difference between the first three SEC games.

“I feel like the past games have been settling, we haven’t been atacking enough. Today we did a good job with that, we made some three throws and played this game physical,” Carter said.

LSU’s Point Guard, Jordan Sears explained the keys to the teams success.

“We need to clean up turnovers and defensive rebounding. So I feel like once we clean that up will put ourselves in a better situation to win.

The Tigers will have their hardest games of the season coming, starting with #11 Texas A&M on Saturday followed by #4 Alabama, and #1 Auburn.