LSU Basketball Loses To Nicholls On Buzzer Beater, 68-66

Per LSUSports.net: BATON ROUGE – The LSU Tigers came all the way back from 24 points down against Nicholls Friday night to take a lead, but the Colonels prevailed, 68-66, with a Jalen White three-pointer from the wing the difference with 1.2 seconds to play at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The Tigers got a long look to tie from Will Baker at the horn that bounced away giving Nicholls the only two wins over LSU by a Louisiana school in the last 13 seasons. The Colonels were the last state team to beat LSU in a regular season game in 2010.

LSU, down 24 points in the final two minutes of the first half, and down 44-25 at intermission after the Colonels shot 56 percent overall from the field (14-25) and made 9-of-17 three-pointers in the first 20 minutes. At the same time, the Tigers were 7-of-27 overall (25.9%) and just 1-of-11 from the arc.

In the second half, the Tigers tried to make a rally, imposing their will defensively and getting shots to fall. LSU got to within four points inside 10 minutes a few times before getting the game to 57-55.

Jalen Reed hit two free throws to tie the game at 57-57 with 6:05 to play and took a 60-57 led on a free throw by Reed and a layup by Mike Williams III.

LSU led 66-63 with 1:41 to play after a dunk rebound by Daimion Collins, but LSU would not score again as Nicholls made two free throws with 46 seconds to play before the winning three-pointer.

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