March 3, 2009
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Vanderbilt makes their last regular season road trip of the season on Wednesday when they take on SEC regular season champion LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The game tips off at 7 p.m. CT, with no television scheduled for the contest. The action can be heard live on the Vanderbilt-ISP Radio Network and vucommodores.com, with Joe Fisher and Tim Thompson on the call.
The Commodores and Tigers will meet for the 104th time on Wednesday, with Vanderbilt holding a 55-48 overall advantage in the series. LSU leads 28-19 in games played in Baton Rouge, although Vanderbilt claimed the last meeting at the PMAC, 64-53, on January 24, 2007 over the 24th ranked Tigers. Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings is 6-6 all-time against the Tigers, and is 2-2 against LSU in Baton Rouge. The Tigers will be the second ranked team Vanderbilt has faced this year (84-69 loss to #24 Florida on January 25), and the highest ranked team the Commodores have played since beating #1 Tennesee, 72-69, on February 26, 2008, at Memorial Gym.
Vanderbilt improved to 17-11 overall, 6-8 in SEC play, with an impressive, 96-83, win over SEC East Division leading South Carolina on Saturday. The Commodores had their highest scoring output of the season and their highest since scoring 97 points against UMass on January 5, 2008, in the win, and fired a 2008-09 SEC-game best 62.0% from the floor against the Gamecocks. Commodore center A.J. Ogilvy and guard Jermaine Beal both had career highs in the win – Ogilvy with 28 and Beal with 27 – and two other Vanderbilt players scored in double figures in Jeffery Taylor (17) and Brad Tinsley (16). The 13-point winning margin tied for the highest in SEC play this season for the Commodores – Vanderbilt also defeated Kentucky by 13 (77-64) on February 17.
Ogilvy leads the Commodores in scoring on the 2008-09 season at 15.2 points per game. Beal adds 12.1 points per game, and Taylor chips in 11.9 points per contest. Tinsley also averages double digits with 10.5 points per contest. Ogilvy leads all VU players on the glass with 7.0 rebounds per game. Taylor pulls down 6.2 rebounds per contest and is second on the team behind Ogilvy.
LSU has a 25-4 overall record this season and a 13-1 mark in SEC play, and has clinched the SEC regular season title. The Tigers have won ten consecutive games and 13 straight SEC games, and are led by Marcus Thornton, who averages 21.0 points per game. Tasmin Mitchell adds 16.8 points per contest, and Bo Spencer chips in 11.8. Chris Johnson leads the team on the glass with 7.4 rebounds per game.
Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings is 6-6 all-time against the Tigers, and is 2-2 against LSU in Baton Rouge.
