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E.A. Diddle Arena
Bowling Green, KY
| LSU Tigers at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers |
| Nov 7, 2012 | 1ST | 2ND | SCORE |
| #16 LSU (0-1) | 47 | 32 | 79 |
| #10 Western Kentucky (2-0) | 47 | 37 | 84 |
| LSU Tigers |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Bobik | 24 | 5-10 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| Madera | 18 | 7-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| Jackette | 24 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Rose | 23 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| Hardy | 21 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Maxwell | 9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gomes | 9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Boyd | 1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Krayl | 11 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Atako | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Gosley | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Mcfarlin | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| TEAM TOTALS | 33-50 | 9-13 | 4-5 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 79 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 33-50 | 9-13 | 4-5 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 79 |
| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Galbreath | 21 | 3-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| Stivers | 21 | 8-12 | 7-10 | 3-4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Tamayo | 21 | 4-14 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Riley | 21 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Suotamo | 21 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Petrauskas | 7 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Pawlak | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lewis | 7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Li | 7 | 3-6 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Capel | 7 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blankenship | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Jack | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| TEAM TOTALS | 28-56 | 16-32 | 12-14 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 84 |
Tovarich: No idea how we won against their 66% shooting and their 9/13 shooting on 3's. We didn't force all that many turnovers. The press was ineffective against their SR PG. Luckily they don't have much of a bench I guess. We didn't rebound all that well. I guess we just accumulated more 3's and more FT's than them although 4 of those FT's were at the end when they were fouling. It's kind of a hard win to explain. Luckily they weren't shooting 3's in the second half like they first. 7/8 at halftime and just 1/5 in the second, but they made everything else it seemed. Great win, but I can't entirely explain how it happened other than we shot enough 3's to overcome it. Thank you Stivers.
Reporter: This is the highest ranked team you've ever beaten, is that your biggest win ever?
Tovarich: I guess the rankings say so, but we're better than them on paper and we were at home. We'll see. It's looking like none of the people I scheduled are panning out again as I see no one on our schedule that's rated higher than us and LSU was the only ranked one. I see we can get Illinois in a tournament here who are rated higher but unranked somehow.
Reporter: What was their press strategy? It wasn't constant, but it was more than just here and there.
Tovarich: That was confusing for me too. They weren't on full blown full court press or we'd have seen it after every score, but when coaches say occasionally it's like 10% of the time maybe. It was like 50-50 with them. I don't know what the rhyme or reason was, but considering how little faith they have in their bench, that doesn't seem wise to me.
Reporter: Will the upcoming CBE Classic be a disappointment if you only end up playing the 2 games?
Tovarich: Probably. More disappointing is Illinois is the best team we may see all season and they're not even ranked, so the benefit of playing them doesn't seem to be there. I don't see how Savannah State's going to beat them, so we'll get a good neutral court test, but indeed, I didn't sign up to just play 2 games. I want more elite opponents in the last two games there, but we'll have to earn those for sure.