The Memphis Tigers had a strong performance against Temple, leading 53-35 with 16:40 left in the game. LSU also dominated Vanderbilt with a 16-3 lead and later maintained an 18-point lead. Vanderbilt struggled with turnovers and shooting, trailing LSU 22-7. Memphis previously won 84-77 against Temple and will face Tulane next. LSU's active defense and clogging passing lanes contributed to their lead over Vandy.
LSU weathered a Vandy rally and still leads by 18. https://t.co/95WwGR6o1t
Impressive lead considering Reese sat the entire second quarter with two fouls. LSU a little fortunate Vandy was dreadful from 3 (1-18), but the Tigers playing active defense and clogging passing lanes. https://t.co/g5K5TYPdOs
Memphis shot 16 of 31 from the foul line in its closer-than-it-needed-to-be 84-77 win at Temple. Tigers host #Tulane on Sunday.
Kim Mulkey will like this: Vanderbilt has as many turnovers as points (7), and it's shooting 2/16 from the floor. Shut out last 4:30 of the 1st. #LSU up 22-7. https://t.co/6MU4KJroWk
Now it’s 16-3 with 5:31 left in the first. Excellent start for the Tigers at Vandy. LSU looking good on defense, rebounding and shooting it. https://t.co/oxjtpJH0aF
LSU all over Vanderbilt, 16-2 right away. Might have been a more interesting game a couple weeks ago, Commodores have lost a lot of confidence/energy.
Vanderbilt is struggling early on because the only lineups that have a prayer of stopping LSU's bigs defensively (that still are not stopping them) have no spacing offensively. LSU leads 16-2, Shea Ralph calls timeout https://t.co/NFV1fFYUs4
Tigers rattle off an 8-0 run that is capped off by a Malco steal-and-score. Memphis 53, TU 35 w/ 16:40 left in game
Temple has scored the first six points of the second half to cut the Memphis lead to 12 at 45-33 on a pair of free throws from White and two buckets from Riley. Now Stanford cut it to 10 with a spin move and layup.