Cam Carter surpassed 1,000 career points and dropped 23 points in Associate Head Coach David Patrick and the LSU Tigers’ 110-45 victory over Mississippi Valley State at the Maravich Center. The 65-point win is the program’s fifth-largest margin of victory in school history.
LSU concludes its non-conference schedule with an 11-2 record and improves to 9-0 at home this season. The Tigers will enter SEC play with 11 or more wins for the third time in four seasons when they host Vanderbilt on Jan. 4, 2025, at the Maravich Center. Mississippi Valley State falls to 2-11 on the season.
For the third consecutive game, LSU separated itself with a massive run, this time a 35-2 run highlighted by a 17-0 burst to help build a lead as large as 42 points in the opening 20 minutes. The Tigers kept their foot on the gas in the second half, hitting season-high marks with 110 points on a 65.7 field goal percentage (46-of-70) and handing out 26 assists. LSU also had a season-low six turnovers and turned MVSU over 17 times, including 10 steals, which marked the Tigers’ fourth game with 10 or more steals this season.
LSU knocked down 12 3-pointers and are now 5-0 this season when hitting double-digit triples and held MVSU to a 32.7 field goal percentage (18-of-55) and 31.3 clip from 3-point range (5-of-16). The Tigers owned the glass 41-22 and outscored the Delta Devils 60-20.
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