Pittsburgh used a 13-0 run out of the dressing room to start the second half of play and went on to score a 74-63 victory over Associate Head Coach David Patrick and his LSU Tigers Friday afternoon in the opening game of the Greenbrier Tipoff Classic at Colonial Hall at The Greenbrier.
In a grinder of a first half in which neither team really was able to get a lot of offensive flow in the first 16 minutes, the Tigers rallied from five down in the final 3:21 to take the lead.
Trailing 25-20, Derek Fountain hit a three-pointer to cut the margin to two and then after a Pittsburgh miss, Vyctorius Miller hit a jumper to tie the game at 25-25 with 1:38 to play. Pittsburgh retook the lead 20 seconds later before Jalen Reed hit a three-pointer to tie the game at 27-27 with 43 seconds to play.
That looked to be how the first half would end, but a Pittsburgh player got a technical foul with seven seconds left and Cam Carter made one free throw to give the Tigers a 28-27 advantage.
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