LSU Tigers Take On Auburn in Hoop Action Today

The LSU Tigers play Auburn today down on the Plains with tip off at 1 p.m.  KWKH will begin pre-game coverage of LSU's basketball game at 12:30 pm. It will be the LSU Tigers' regular season finale against the Auburn Tigers at the Auburn Arena.

The game will be regionally televised by CBS.

LSU is 17-12 and 7-8 in the league, but losers of two straight, at Ole Miss last Saturday and then Wednesday night's heartbreaking loss in overtime to Tennessee, 74-69, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in a game in which LSU led almost the entire regulation before Tennessee was able to tie the game and win in the extra session.

Auburn is 14-15 and 4-11 in the league and losers of three straight, including Wednesday night at Alabama.

LSU has fallen with the two losses into a tie for sixth place with Ole Miss and Mississippi State, but the two Mississippi schools have the tiebreakers and if the SEC Tournament in New Orleans started Saturday, the Tigers would be the eighth seed.

LSU could end up anywhere from sixth to ninth in the final seeding in what in one scenario could be a four-way tie for sixth.

LSU defeated Auburn in January meeting in Baton Rouge in overtime, 65-58. It was another game LSU had a lead in only to have Auburn hit a three-pointer with less than a second to play to force overtime. But in the overtime period, LSU responded and easily won the game.

Anthony Hickey had 18 points and six assists in the first meeting with Justin Hamilton getting 13, Ralston Turner 11 and Storm Warren 10. Johnny O'Bryant III did not play in the first meeting because of a broken bone in his non-shooting left hand.

Auburn is paced by Frankie Sullivan who averages 12.2 points per game and Kenny Gabriel who is at 12.1 a contest.

The Tigers next game will be on Thursday, March 8, at the SEC Tournament at the New Orleans Arena.

You can get your fix of  LSU Tiger hoop action on your home for the Tigers, am 1330- KWKH.