Lady Tigers win 700th game

For the sixth straight game, the No. 9 LSU women’s basketball team jumped out to an early lead and coasted to a victory.

The latest effort was a 72-46 victory at Kentucky on Sunday afternoon in Rupp Arena. The win for LSU (16-3, 5-0 SEC) was the program’s 700th.

The Lady Tigers’ largest lead of 27 points, 70-43, came with 2:08 left in the second half.

Sylvia Fowles led the way with 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Fowles connected on 9-of-11 shooting and also blocked three shots. Quinna Chaney added 13 points.

Allison Hightower led an LSU bench that scored 26 points for the Lady Tigers. Hightower scored 12 points and grabbed a career-high seven rebounds.

Defensively, LSU held UK to 26.8 percent from the floor and forced 13 turnovers.

The Lady Tigers also notched a 79-59 victory at No. 25 Auburn on Thursday.

In that contest, LSU led 42-21 at the break and was led by Fowles’ 22 points and 10 rebounds.

Chaney added 21 points and eight assists.

LSU will return home to host South Carolina on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Five former Tigers in Super Bowl

LSU will have five of its former football players on the field for Super Bowl XLII when the New England Patriots face the New York Giants on Sunday in Phoenix.

LSU has more players in the Super Bowl than any other college.

Of the five Tigers playing in the game, four will suit up for the New England Patriots with cornerback Corey Webster being the only former LSU player on the Giants roster.

The Patriots with LSU ties include defensive tackle Jarvis Green, cornerback Randall Gay, linebacker Eric Alexander and running back Kevin Faulk. Green and Faulk both have three Super Bowl rings to their credit, while Gay and Alexander were starters on LSU’s 2003 BCS National Championship team.

In addition to the five players participating in the game, LSU will also have a presence on the sidelines as former Tiger assistant coach Pete Mangurian serves as tight ends coach for the Patriots.

Mangurian, who was on the LSU roster as a player in the 1970s, coached the offensive line for the Tigers from 1983-87.

Men’s hoops falls to Arkansas

For the second time at home this month in a Southeastern Conference game, the LSU Tigers struggled offensively from the field, shooting under 30 percent while the Arkansas Razorbacks were burying the Tigers from outside the three-point arc with a 68-52 win over LSU Saturday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Marcus Thornton had a team-high 20 points, while Anthony Randolph added 14 points and Alex Farrer chimed in with 11 points.

LSU (7-12 overall, 0-5 in the SEC) travels to Auburn Wednesday for a 7 p.m. contest before going to Alabama next Saturday for a 2 p.m. game televised by Raycom Sports.