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befo before. it's "sport scnce." baseball isn't normally considered a full contact spor but when a base runner bull over a catcher blocking home plate, it looks like it rivals anyhit, any sport, even football. the question is, what's the bigger impact, a base runner hammering a catcher at home plate or a football player making a full-speed, open-field

catch. >> to comparethese two massive impacts representing football is one of the greatest defenders to ever play the game, uperstar ray lewis. this two-time nfl defensive player of the year and super bowl mvp i known for inflicting the sport's most punishing hits. and stepping up to the plate for baseball is one of the basiest crash dummies we've brought into the lab, hollywood stuntman sam hargrave. besides using his body in "tansfoers" and "pirates of the caribbean" in a previous experiment sam ran full speed into your "sport science" outfield wall.

today, samnd ray will both lay their hardesthits on our dummy "crash." and our stuntman is up first. >> hi, i'm sam. what we want you to do is line up back there and come charging in as hard as you possibly can to run into the catcher we have high-tech sensors hooked up underneath the chest protector. it's going to measure the amount of force that you can generate with a collision at home plate. >> ready to do this? >> i'm ready. >> all ght. let's do it. >> sam's ready to put crash down fo the count. >> do it all for the baseball players and all the baseball fans around the world. >> aaagh! aaagh!

>> and three, two, one, go! >aaagh. woo! >> sam delivered a hit with 1,600 pounds of force. that is like a 30-me-per-hour car crash. and would ctainly lay out any catcher. >> canou get up quick enough to tag me out? >> but how does the play at the plate compare to a runng back getting steamrollein the open field? if anyone knows how to hit a

ballcarrier, it's ray lewis. >> i've alrdy made up in m mind anything in front of me i'm destroying. that's the perfect tackle but it's just being low, it's just a nice pop. that's when you come through and then you pop . training camp right now, you know? >> for the most accura simulation of a game situation, we're putting crash on the move. r the first time ever, we'l mounthe crashest dummy on a cart and it will be speeding towards ray at 1 miles per hour. >> we're going to termine once andor all how hard you hit full on, head on with the running back. >> i want to see that myself. >> what kind of form do you use to generate the maximum amount of impact? >> en you hit somebody you want to hit them just ke this. deal with itnd deal with it.

that'shen you're playing football. because i'll tell you a lot of running backs can't deal with that every play. i'm 260 pounds. me running pulling speed, most of t time it ain't good. it ain't good. enough. i'll knock him out. >it's time for ray to teach the dummy what an nfl hit feels lik >> knoc him out. knock hi out. i'm going to knock h out. i'm going to knocthis sucker out.

>> ray doesn't just tackle the dummy, he nearly bies it into the ground. >> aaagh. oh. that's a hell of ahit. thas a hell of a hit. that's the frein' way the game is played,bro. that's the beauty of freakin' basketball football. that's contact. see that, s back in the old school day, if you have some of this coming at a football game at's when you know who won that battle. i'm done no >> it sure looks nasty, but did is open-field tackle create a bigger pact thn the home plate collision? our base ruer accelerated up

18 miles an hour and blasd into the catcher with an impact of 1,600 pounds of force. ray got up to 12 mil an hour and smashed into the dummy with a massive 2,200 pounds of force. that's nearly 38% more force than the collision at home. there are two reasons why. the first rason is that the catcher is stationary. ray and the ballcarrier are both moving. since force equals mass times acceleration, both ras speed and the dummy's speed are added together for what's called the closing speed. and this is why the biggest hts

in sports will always be foun on the football field. oh, eah, the second reason this tackle was so punishing, it was delivered by ray freakin' lewis. >> do something. he's gone. >> coming up -- what would happen if a giant topus gave you a beat-down with all eight of its arms? find out when "sporscience" continues. it takes 97% of your energy to keep your body ol. some clothing tes to keep you dry b without sweat you g hotter and have less energy.

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known as the art ofhe eight limbs. one of the mostowerful martial arts in the world.

maste can strike with fists, elbows, knees, shins on both sides of the by. it's like the eight limbs of an octopus attacking you all at once. soe wondered can muaythai masters cause maximum damage from all eight limbs. >> to find out how much force is generated from a combined eight-limb attack we bout in o of the most beautiful but lethal women in the world, mma superstar gina karano. this bombshell is an american gladiator and undefeatedas an mma fighter. she relies on her muaythai skills to give her opponents a beat-down. >> i can hit you eight different

ways and come at you any angle. if one of these limbs have knockout potential, knockout power. >> to dissect her attack we're letting her wail on her dummy and her high-tech heavy best and wire her up with a functional assessment of biomechanics or fab suit which willgenerate realtime data of gina's rdest hits. >> that's tolly creepy. >> so this is really the same consistency and density as the human body. we'll have you wail away and try to break some of the ribs. >> i wish it would talk crap or something so i can get angry at it it's not going to do that, is it? >> it's time for this beauty to unleash the beast.

>> pundzing, you got right here and you actually busted a rib. >> awesome. >> if you land a shot, i mean you can bust someo's rib just like that. >> right on. >> so how hardwas gina's octo-attack? her devastating punches to the dummy measured 6 pounds of force. her elbows eh landed with 400 pounds of force.

her knees crunched the bag with 550 pounds of force. and her kicks connected with a stunning 800 pounds of force. ginaan land all eight blows in a blistering three seconds. and how much does this maelstrom combine to generate an amazng 4,800 poundsf force. that's like a north pacific giant octopus pounding you with all eit of its arms, translation, in three seconds, gina could break your ribs, give you a concussion, shatter your nose, rupture you spleen, cause internal beeding and put you down for the count. her eight limbs may be lethal

but when she stepsin the october gone she has a single move that could end a mach even quicker, the rear naked choke hold. >> checking someone out is definitely a good feeling. right out there with a knockout. >> gina chokes our ballistics gel dummy with 380 pounds. but is that enough force to choke out a real person? to find out, we've go another duy who is stepping . "sport science" host john brkus. >> do not try anything you're about to see at home or anywhere else. >> i'm don't want to -- >> i'm feeling the -- i'm feeng scared. i'm not ashamed t admit it. i'm flat-o scared to be choked out by gina carano. >> don't be scared. >> aye-yie-yie. so there's no replacement for

the real thing? >> none. >> all right. now, hold on. how do you want me to just -- wait, wait, wait. wait, wait, wait. on't go fast. don't go fast. don'tgo fast. >> just get comfortable. >> wait, wait, okay. hold on. hold on. hold on. i'm uncomfortable. wait, wait. are you going to crush me? no, no, no. >> gina's arms may appear to be kwigling john but they're cutting off the carotid artery preventing blood from flowing up to the brain. john's lights are on but nobody is home. >> ishe okay?

>> oh, my gosh. >> is this slightly weird to anyone else? >> what happened? >> you fell asleep for a little bit. >> when? >> john was only out for a couple of seconds, but his memory of the last few minutes is hazy. >> honestly you sa i'm going to choke you out a that's the last thing i remember. i just -- i didn't even think that we went there. >> so why did gene that's choke have john drawing a blank? when john got choked out, the oxygen going to his brain was cut by 15%. this abrupt oxygen deprivation st stunned hi in the cortex which affects short-term memory and it

took the brain cells to recover from the depleted oxygen and regain his memory. >> wh happened? >> after this experiment we know that gina's got eight lethal lis with knockout power. and she can put you to sleep without singing you a lully. coming up -- why did the chicken cross the ab? >> ready. >> he's going. >> find out when "sport science" continues.

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at another freak accident. >> august 4th, 1983, yankees at toronto. hall of fame outfielder dav winnfield finished his warm-up anthrew the balloward a ball boy near the fall line. but the throw skipped off the turf and killed a seagull. win feel was arrested but animal cruelty charges were dropped the next day since it was determined to an accident. so what variables lined up to create this bizarre accident? to find out, we'll use an air cannon, baseball's fishing line, sophisticat robotics and standing in f the unfortate seagull a frozen chicken. >> so here's how we're going to set this one up. staged behind the wall i'm going to hop the bird along right in into harm's way cindy is going to man t a

cannon, e's going to hit the button. 're going to see if we can get a ball to skip off the turf and smash directly into our chicken. >> our team preps wit some dry runs. >> here it comes. here comes the bird. >> it was clos >> they need to bounce closer to the chicken. >> yes. >> rais the front e of the cannon so it skips later. >> yes. >> three, two, one. did it bounce, though? >> calibrated perfectly. ring in the bird. let's bring it in. >> but we don't want to just dane a chicken on a string so our mad scientists use cutting-edge technology.

complex electronics, and precision surgery to create robe bow chi robo chicken. >> this is the world's first battery-powered walking chicken. turning the birdon is pretty disgusting. aw. aw. aw. i feel like i really shouldn't bedoing this. >> last year we couldn't overcome the million-to-one odds to r-create the randy johnson incident. for this experiment our scientists have calculated the odds of success at one in tw because with this one-of-a-kind bird bot and air air cannon we should be able t emulate exactly what happened in the winnfield accident.

>> pump it up that air cannon. pump it up as soon as for real. >> hold on. john's got to fine-tune his chicken puppeteering skills. >> it isn't as easy as it looks. ere he comes. he's coming. >> a couple more stunts. ready? >> hs coming. he's coming. >> ready? >>eah. just a glancing blo here it comes. >> we're hot. >> lost it, lt it. aw.

>> that's dead on. nicely done. look at that. we didn't get it last year. we got it this year. >> winfield's score was calculated at 56 miles an hour. the skip off the turf decreased the ball speed to 44 miles an hour. the five-ounce ball hit the 30-ounce bird with 50 pounds of force, which doesn't sound like much, but that's equivalent to a 200-pound human getting hilt by a wrecking ball. as long as birds continue to hang out in llparks, they'll be in danger of straying into harm's way. and any bird that encounters an accidental beanball will be totally plucked.

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we're smart, fast and strong. but how strong? >> thequestion is in the spectm of all the animals on the planet pound per pound are human beings the strongest? >> elephants can lift four tons, but that's only about 25% of their body weight. so we're actually stronger than elephants relatively speaking. and speakin of relatives, how about chimps? the average human can oy lift about 95% of his or her body weht. chimps, on the other hand,re estimated to be two to three times stronger than average humans. but what about humans who are above average?

could there be a human who is stronger than chimps? to find out, we enlisted one of the strongest humans to ever walk the earth, power lifter scott ndelson. this beast holds over 39 weight fting world records including the record for raw bnch press at 715 pounds. >> benching is a universal lift. it's man's lift. theeople ask how much you lift but they don't really care how much you squat or url. they're talking about bench press. >> we're looking for the strongest beast the human kingdom. you as our human representative, you have to put up a huge number. what do you want to do?

>> at least a thousand pounds. >> bench pressing a thousand pounds. >> or more. >> or mor got to see this one. >> stick around. >> let's do it. >> allight. >> scott starts by putting on a comession shirt used for what called geared lifting. >> geared lifting is basically what the bench shift which keps your body together and acts as a spring enabling you to lift more weight basically is what it'll do. >> there's extreme danger involved here. a oppe barbell would h the est with a stunning 16,000 pounds of force. that kind of impact could pulverize his rib cage. crush his lungs and heart. >> every time i bench press i put my life in my team's hands. >> so you're going to go over a thousand pounds for us right

now? >> correct. >> makes all of us humans proud, strongest beast. >> up, out, out, out. >> right now stt is holding over his hed the equivalent of a concert grand piano.

[ applause ] >> a thousand-eight. >> a thusand-eight, just like that. >> 1,008 pounds is about 3 1/2 times scott's ownody weight so pound p pound this particular human is muchtronger than a chimp. so could this beast be pound per pound the strongest animal on the planet? not even close. amazingly, an ant can lift up to 30 times its body weight so could the ny ant be the planet'strongest beast? once again, noeven close. pound for pound,he strongest

creature on the planet is a t p tropical mite. this microscopic creature can carry 1,180 tim its own weight. if scott uld lift over 1100 times his body weight, he could bench press a boeing 747. so sorry, scott. you did a good job representing the human race, but you got yur butt kicked by the mighty mite. of course, since you weigh 1 billion times more than a mite, you can aaysust step on the little showoff. coming up -- can a girl possibly hit as hard as a guy? find out when "sport science" returns............

the phra "you hit like a girl" is a common school yard taunt. it's an insult but should it be? iean can't girls hit as hard as guys? toind out, we're going to put female punching power to the test and determine oncend for all if being told "you hit like a girl" isan insult oa compliment. >> see if women can deal a blow to this gender bias, we

called on the best female boxer on the pnet, undefeated world champion lucia riker. you might remember her as the evil boxing villain in "million dollar baby." in real life, lucia is a dominating force in the fight world. with a record of 54-0, 36 by knockout. >> when people say you hit like a girl it actuall means you're arm punching and there are a lot of men that armunch so the cliche is you basically punch with your arms. >> so punching le a girl is punching like this. clearly there are -- >> yeah. is that good? >> what we're ing to do is pit you against a male boxer, same

size, same height, same weight and we're going to see can a womanreally punch a hard as a man. are you ready to do this? >> i absolutely am. >> for this matchup we need a level playing field so we brought in the pfer affect opponent a man with 100 wins under his belt. olympic boxer mogonyu. mo's actly the same heig and weight as lucia and he's an xpert the swinging some heavy fists. to test the punching power of these boxers, we turn to the world's most sophisticated machine, the human body. say hello to our walking, talking heavy bag mixed martial arts trainer and heavyweight brawlerulian rush.

>> i work as a sparring partner, trainer and figer. i've taken untless body shots. might be the stupidest thing i've ever done but today i'm here to be a human munpunching . >> our professional sparring partner has agreed take pumps from each of our fighrs to determine if he can tell the difference between a mas punch and a woman, which means he'll have to be blindfolded. >> we'll be putting the blindfold on you, all right. when you hear me say boxer number one, are you ready and i'm going to say, three, two, one, and punch. >> okay. >> so you'll have a chance to tighten up your abs. we're not gog to sucker-punch you. >> i appreciate it. >> can a guy who takes punches for a living be able to tell a punch from a man or a woman? >> i definely think i'll be able to feel the ifference. i'd be surised if i couldn't.

>> it'sime for the fists to fly. >> ready. here we go. boxer number one. and three, two, one, punch. >> 24 is why we're countig down the boxers to ensure they punch after the three, two, one count. because of our blindfolded punching bag doesn't have a chance to tense h abdominal muscles, a punch that he isn't ready for could do someamage.

>> and second punch. here we go and we're nching and three. ooh. >> juian, a you all right? >> i told you that you wouldn't get sucker-puhed. >> lucia was supposed to punch after the three, two, one countdown. t she jumped the g and sucker-punched julian. which shouldn't surprise us because she's best known for that notorious sucker-punch in the midfield "million dollar baby." >> awoman's most famous for the ultimate cinematic sucker-punch. sucker-punch is our guy. >>here's supposed to be a

countdown butomebody gotappy and she just took off on mewith no warning. >> it was just a reflex like the word punch is just so conditioned with so many years to react to it, one, two, three, doesn'to it for me. this is embarrassing. >> but julian i the consummate professional and he agrees to go again so let's reset and restart the test. >> al right. are you ready? >> yeah. >> we're going to count down three, two, one, punch. three, two, one, punch. >> mo plants another stinging right. >> boxer number two. >> coming up. if lucia can follow the rules, our human heavy bag will tell us

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for this experiment, we're testing if woman, professional fighter lew lucia rijker can hit as hard as a man. after olympian mo gonyu hit him with a stunning right, it's now lucia's turn. >> boxer number two, ready? ree, two, one, punch.

>> soho hit harder? >> this is the big moment. >> you survived. >> yeah. >> barely. >> tell me what you felt. tell me what you were feelg. >> i really couldn't tell the difference between the first punch and the second punch. >> there's no qualitative difference. >> no, because they both hit about the same. >> really surprised honestly. i really thought i'd be able to tell when mo hit me versus lucia but it was about the same power. i was amazed. i was really amazed that she could hi like that. >> our profession sparring partner codn't intify the sex of te puncher. so for amore objeive analysis, we're turningo science.

and our state-of-the-art hybrid 3 crash test dummy. we rigged a pressure sensor behind the face that'll measure the impact force of lucia and mo's punches. >> three, two, one. >> how do you think you did? >> good. >> mo's shot smashed our dummy with 710 pounds of force. so can lucia really match tt? doubtful. she'll be at a disadvantage because men typically have between 10 and 20% more muscle mass than women. most is in the chest, arms and back which should translate into a bigger punch. so let's see if lucia can really

match mo's force. >> all right, we're ready to go. three, two, one. >> oh, my god. you bke the dummy. you literally blew out the back of his head. >> sorry. >> so how hard did this girl hit? >> lucia has a very strong punch. she generated 922 pounds of force.

>> 922 pounds of force. that's over 200 pounds of force more than mo's punch. and amazingly, lucia hit justas hard as profsional mma fighter houston "the assassin" alxander. so how can this woman hit harder than a professional mma fighter? it l comes down to sir isaac newton's greatest hit, force equals mass times acceleration. lucia's fist accelerates to a maximum velocity of 36 feet per second. that's more than twice as fast

as a rattlesnake's strike. cia maximizes an efficient transfer of energy from her feet to her fist. uniling her body with a textbookie nettic chain. and the fact i it doesn't matter if you're male or female. it's lucia's perfect technique that brings the hurt. >> i don't nt to say i punch like a man. i punch like a coordinated athlete. >> so next time you're tempted to accuse somene of hitting like a gi, careful who you're talking to >> do i punch like a girl? maybe i cod kick your butt.

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matt: welcome inside the pete maravich center in baton rouge, louisiana where tonight, the l.s.u. tigers look to end a season losing streak.

until the holidays came, went on the road, lost in overtime against washington state out in seattle and earlier this week, got hammered by xavier by 24. their sec schedule starts a week from today against alabama. what do we know about the l.s.u. tigers? daymeon: well, the sec coach of the year, coach johnson was discouraged by that loss at xavier. he said he felt like it was a boxing match. his team got hit in the mouth and never responded. they haven't played well at home, though. it will be interesting to see what that will do it for the tigers tonight. matt: the utah team is 6-7. they graduated four seniors and averaged 31 minutes per game including neville who scored 23 against the tigers last year. daymeon: of course, it's a different team. we look at the success of coach boylen. it is a very different team. a team that has big guys that can block shots but yet to see if this team can compete against a caliber like an l.s.u. and tonight, they'll be facing a lot of guys that ought to play well. matt: our star watch features

for utah their leading scorer who comes off the bench, carlon brown and tasmin mitchell for the tigers who is number three in the sec in scoring and rebounding. daymeon: brad has the ability to get to the basket. however, he needs to continue to improve that jump shot. he comes off of it. look for that in production. they have tasmin mitchell who is a pro for l.s.u. you'll see him at the next level. a double-double waiting to jump any time he steps between the lines. matt: 20 points or more in his last three games. tonight, the fourth all time meeting as utah takes on l.s.u.

matt: back at the pmac in baton rouge, louisiana. utah and l.s.u. getting ready to tip things off. final nonconference game for the utes before they open play in the mountain west conference. l.s.u. has one more

nonconference game when they will then play alabama next saturday in their sec opener. take a look at the starting line-ups for utah at 6-7, coming after a win against texas san antonio, you see the starting line-up. luka drca coming of a high of 19 for the utes tuesday night. l.s.u. at 8-4 on the season, watch for storm warren. he is number five in the nation with seven double-doubles. jim boylen, the head coach of the utah utes. third season, 48-32 a year ago, led them into the ncaa tournament. they were a number five seed before getting knocked out by arizona in the first round. trent johnson in his second season as the l.s.u. tigers head coach after two great runs in nevada and stanford, his first season at l.s.u., 27-8. 13-3. they won the sec regular season championship and made it to the second round of the ncaa

tournament before losing to national champion north carolina. l.s.u. in their home whites and utah in their road reds. meeting for the fourth time, the one win for l.s.u. in the series came back in 2003 here in this building when they beat the utes 65-51 a year ago. 91-61, the utes winners at the huntsman center back home in utah. utah in the red, l.s.u. in the white. we're under way as l.s.u. on offense. daymeon: good sec officiating crew tonight. as you can see, l.s.u. is solid after he took that. good, solid move. matt: warren had his shot blocked by foster. out of bounds.

they go inside to foster who is 7'3". pick out to henderson and he knocks down the three. daymeon: you can see, look at the size and a lot of energy with utah. they came out in this game with good reason, ought to be a good matchup between the two squads early. matt: on the floor, dotson had his shot blocked by foster. foster is number four in the nation in blocked shots. daymeon: not bad when you can block like you did on that one. put your hands straight up. matt: kinsley off the inbounds and rebound pulled down by foster. henderson off the screen, has already hit one three. rimmed out on that one. rebound, however, controlled by tillie. and an offensive foul will be called on bo spencer. let's take a look at daymeon

fishback, the keys to the game. daymeon: if you look at utah, the defensive rebounding and knock down shots. coach boylen said they had to keep the offensive rebounds of l.s.u., they had to make some shots. play for 40 minutes, people who post shots and he said they still are having to learn to play for an entire game from tips until the horn goes off. matt: foster on the kickout. despite the fact that utah has a 7'3" and 6'11" man on the floor, very surprising they are number seven in the mountain west conference, averaging only three rebounds per game. daymeon: they need to be a better rebounding team. matt: he had a career high 19 against texas san antonio earlier this week but he has been in a shooting slump for the better part of the last month. daymeon: look at the offense of

l.s.u. coming here for the most part, a good lesson on the ball. matt: like trying to shoot the ball over a tree. he just gets his hands out there. i mean, he's so long, it's like going up against someone who has a great reach and you can't get to his body. he reaches out there. he's already got two blocks and he's gone to the bench. that will be the key tonight. l.s.u., can they speed up the tempo and get the big man out of the game? daymeon: you called it, matt. you made an analogy of, you know, i think i would compare almost totally of one who makes a stand and he gets underneath the basket, you have to shoot over him. matt: four on the shot clock. bo spencer with 2. mitchell just gets it off and hits the three-pointer. tasmin mitchell is the best three shooter on this l.s.u.

team and gives the tigers a two point lead. daymeon: any time you come home after a tough loss and especially when you've had the success that l.s.u. has had at home, first five minutes so crucial to try to get down and get a good lead. matt: pass is deflected. bodies on the floor. jump ball is called. possession arrow is pointing in favor of the yutah utes with 10 on the shot clock. daymeon: you look at both the western conference and the sec conference around the corner, you'll see a lot of bodies flying, high energetic young men out here trying to prepare and get ready for the second season coming up. matt: utah opens their mountain west conference schedule next saturday at 1:30 mountain time against texas christian. they'll be at home. l.s.u. will be home against alabama 4:00 central time next saturday. four on the shot clock. tillie and hit off the top of the backboard.

actually, i think it actually hit off the shot clock, above the backboard. the 5-3 early lead for the l.s.u. tigers. freshman checks into the ballgame for l.s.u. and kinsley who got his third start of the season comes out. daymeon: speaking to coach johnson this morning, he spoke about how well kinsley has taken out to play. matt: mitchell gives it up. the three-pointer. matt: gives it up. tillie had it forced and got it back. finally able to save it. out of control, runs over warren

and is called for the foul. daymeon: right now, utah struggling a little bit on the offensive end since the first basket, l.s.u. really turning up the defense but i think they want utah to be somewhat passive. knocked down the three-pointer. what they got to do is be a little more patient but be aggressive with their ball on the end. matt: l.s.u. is dead last in the sec hitting only 28% and 11th with only four threes per game. warren got the basket and was fouled. daymeon: one of the sophomores in the sec, and i don't care how young you are or who you're playing, this is a good catch. he's patient inside. he didn't rush it. with a nice touch up and over, whenever you can have that consistency on the inside, you've got yourself a positive. >> warren has to be one of the

big stories and how much this production has gone up, of course, l.s.u. graduated four seniors out of their clothing from last year, five seniors from last year's team. daymeon: utah 1-4 from behind the three-point line so really, we're somewhat passive. they've got to try to get the basket to their side and make l.s.u. defend in the paint area. matt: tillie on the floor. had his shot blocked by warren. ahead to spencer. spencer goes to the other side and lifts the layup. carlon brown. that's a two. daymeon: coach boylen is trying to get other players coming off the bench and playing well. brian, no different. really coming off the bench and continuing 21 points and he thought he could put up points

in a hurry. matt: big basket. ending a 9-0 run for l.s.u. and dennis harris gets the basket. they're looking for someone who step out and step out the big three. there's storm warren on saturday and if you look at sec coming up right around the corner, and you know, you can get scores from other areas. matt: that was up from a different area, coach. daymeon: he's a guy when he gets rolling, you have to make sure you put a hand in his face. you have to try to make him put it on the floor. you let him step outside and shooting will hurt you. matt: mitchell working against tillie.

five point lead for the tigers. spencer throws it to nobody in particular. trying to connect with dennis harris, and it was high over his head. we are close to six minutes into this ballgame. storm warren getting the job done down low and the tigers have a five point lead.

matt: mitchell is pro in itself. spencer 20 points in the last five games and storm warren is one of the better big men in the conference this year. that early sec matchup now, when they play alabama, the coach will have to come in here with michael green. i think that matchup between two guys ought to be exciting. matt: michael green, the current sec player of the week. warren with seven double-doubles all of them coming in their home games. number five in the ncaa with those seven double-doubles. interesting to see, however, how he performs when he gets to the southeastern conference when pri johnson is closed and those lanes that you had to get all those rebounds and averaging

10.3 rebounds per game. all the lanes you had prior to this, they start closing. you have to find a way to get around it. daymeon: people played well, of course, but those are freshmen who haven't experienced. of course, he has to go on the road and play because ear guys do not to watch a lot of film and how the younger guys respond in the sec. matt: he's been the leading scorer so far tonight. and 5 much lsu's first 13 points. averagining 13.9 pints pore gym. number 10 in the nation in rebounding. number two in the conference. sophomore out of monroe, louisiana, in ridge field high school. officials, mike stewart and pat adams over there are viewing an earlier play. i guess to determine whether it

was a three-pointer or not. didn't know what play they were looking at. daymeon: whatever, it didn't affect the scoring though they got a satisfaction on it. it's still 13-8. matt: inside they go to foster. that fouled on the play. and a size mass match there. they had aaron dotson, 6'4" matched up against the 7'3" foster and foster has the mismatch against anybody on the floor tonight. talk about the size and, you know, that's a very good look and he actually did and a lot of times when they see a trap come on a ball screen, they tend to hesitate. they bring the two balls away from when the defender from l.s.u. didn't have the time to recover. matt: a little bit later in the game here, we'll talk about a guy who has the shot of becoming the all times shot blocker in nba history. really knocking them away.

already had 21 points. mitchell hits the three. that was a two, pardon me and the a four-point lead. inside they go to tillie. i really like the merits of coach boiler. he's real insear. -- he goes inside. so many teams in today's game of basketball, if the game is played from inside-out, they settle for that three-pointer it's so enticing when you go outside, you get better rebounds on lanes and opportunities as well. >> can play with whistle. plays volleyball above everybody else to get the ball. carlon brown is called for travel. carlon brown is an interesting story, the guard out of

riverside, california in he's the leading scorer in the last three games they've opted to bring him off the bench. daymeon: very athletic and has a very nice first step. we'll need that first step today. daymeon: it's like jace tavita, would have been better with the defensive edge. before the ball goes, it ends up in the hands of warren. bo spencer stolen away. daymeon: last year, more size, more confident, really developing his game from the perimeter. matt: on the money, shawn glover. 6'6" out of cedar hill, texas. what a big shot he had against illinois, came on november 27th and glover hits the buzzer-beater to beat them.

are they came back from 16 down to win that ballgame and he tripped over his own teammate's foot. fortunately, he's ok. daymeon: talk about boylen and all his nba experience but we're seeing some nba shots from their hits and misses. matt: catch sports night weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 eastern. they'll be back in the studio to recap the bowl picture and take a look at the bowls that are remaining including the orange bowl and the national championship game pitting alabama against texas. inside, glover and he traveled. this indecision on the inbounds, he was open and didn't go right up with it and he traveled. daymeon: a little hesitant. he should have took it right up. has a very good touch on the outside. we've already seen that and meet the play with confidence.

to get better. matt: four turnovers for utah. two for l.s.u. both of these teams pretty good. utah in the mountain and a good grade point from the sec. matt: chris hines will check into the ballgame for utah. red shirt freshman out of houston averaging only 6 1/2 minutes per game. early look with chris hines. they'll play a lot of folks here tonight. air ball, stayed by mitchell. spencer fading away. not this time. grabbed the rebound, he tried the same move. mitchell's got nine. he's averaging 17 per game,

third best total in the conference. eight second chance points. 4>> you got to give it to him by cut. nice play, very confident as he goes player. taking his time, giving his inside and so many players don't move after they pass the basketball. e glover took advantage. y daymeon: 23. inside they go foster trying the same play with hines. he fumbled it out of bounds. it will be l.s.u.'s ball. we are nine minutes into this ballgame. (announcer) at pizza hut we've got a deal for you!

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matt: l.s.u. with a seven point lead on utah and tasmin mitchell, off to a great start. 11 points and 5-6 shooting from the floor. daymeon: yeah, we told you at the beginning with him, with his ability to penetrate and lay down horizontally. he missed the rebound before. see the nice shot from the perimeter. he's done so much what l.s.u. behind marcus thornt on a lot last year and, of course, he was out with the stress fact fracture and had to deal with the injury. came back, almost 1700 points in 800 rebounds in his career at l.s.u. >> he had 13 points now, shy of 1700 started the night 324 shy of 2000. only two other players have done that. and that's current praise, shouldn't be able to top that to 2 001.

auto matt: it goes down and comes out. daymeon: the very impressive defensive stand in the kentucky game and l.s.u. in this first half holding ythem only 16 poins in the after court. make sure you stand from front of them all. cssports"com is back with everything you fleed to know about basketball. with schedules to scores and more, you can find it here at css-sports.com. dennis harris checks back into the ballgame. alan dotson goes out for l.s.u., picked up his second floor. -- foul.

both teams shooting the ball to start the game. l.s.u., 10-18. utah, half as many shots, 6-9. tillie on the cut. carlon brown had his shot blocked. foul was called. call on harris. >> good job of being aggressive. when utah is aggressive in the half-court offense, something feels positive for them. being directed off the bench, trying to get fouls and trying to get easy baskets where you are at. 38 of 52 on the season. and their to which scorer 13.5 per game which is the 10th best in the mountain west. i might also add as you take a look at carlon brothers, their scrappy ford jay watkins back

home in memphis tonight, family emergency. we certainly wish him our prayers go out to his family in this difficult time for him but he's back home with his foamily tonight. he has that guy that matches up against kathy mitchell tonight. -- tasmin mitchell tonight. tillie, kicked out to henderson. get the early three but nothing since and the ball up in the hands of spencer gets the layup. daymeon: to get the defense, you have to switch sides of the floor. you have to be aggressive off the basket. you have to move it with the pass as well to try to make that defense shift and rotate.

matt: washburn, shot it too hard and a foul will be called on harris. that's going to be number 2 on him. l.s.u. now scored nine points off of six turnovers. daymeon: leading to the offense and you have this, you better have it -- everyone out there really coaches defense and coaches hard work and, you know, talk about double digits, in the past 11 years, he has been so successful and demands the best out of his kids. matt: i thought that foul had been called on harris. it was not. sec basketball, utah and l.s.u. in pete's maravich center in baton rouge, louisiana. happy new year to you and your family. l.s.u. with a seven point lead. that foul that i thought was

called on harrison was called on ludwig. that was his first. ludwig come out as storm warren checks back in for l.s.u. as well. tasmin mitchell, he won't be checking out. he averages 38 minutes per game which is number one in the sec as warren gets fouled on the play and warren gives to the line again. >> yeah his teammates were standing right next to him. they have to love johnson, 16 points, 61% so this is a guy, that's a gal that has to be to his cousins in patterson and connecticut and mississippi state, that's where i'll be talking about the top in the game. matt: warren has an early

feeling here. mitchell have warned of 15 of the tigers' first 27. spencer the other piece of this puzzle has them so far here tonight. tillie got tied up. another steal for l.s.u. got stolen right back and a foul called on spencer. spencer a little bit out of control on that play. ran into henderson so henderson will be at the lane. spencer just picked up his second personal foul so so fast to neck for him. marshall henderson, the freshman out of hearse, texas and bell the ma lo-- he has a chance to

utah's sean green record for three-point shots but he doesn't complete the two at the free-throw line and then commits a foul after he made that miss. kind of a freshman mistake to use the old term. committed a foul. daymeon: showed a little bit in the last game, 1 poithird turno for the tigers. 7. 48 to play in the opening half. l.s.u. with the six point lead.

matt: l.s.u. tigers with the six point lead here with 7:48 to play in the first half. trent johnson talking about their 8-4 start and saying you know we're as talented as anybody we play but if we don't compete and grind, we'll get knocked on our butt. if a team beats him, he wants it to be because the team is better. that was the case when they got beat by uconn in madison square gardens but not because of some of their only losses this season. daymeon: right now, i think they've responded well from that game. came out and played well. that washington game, they played to overtime and i think they got a little overconfident now with xavier and struggled. matt: felt like they were a little better than they thought they were and xavier showed them just maybe how they weren't. got fouled by kinsley and that's going to be, i believe, number

two. number one on him. kinsley, number one on him. and drca will be on the line for the 1-1. daymeon: when you look at the way utah is playing, continue to get better but wisconsin, you look at new mexico, top 25. look at some positive wins as well. as utah continues to get ready for the conference matchup, i think they're making strives tonight in going inside, establishing an inside presence and doing more than just shooting behind the three-point line. matt: they'll have their work cut out for them in the mountain west this year, no question about it after they won the regular season and the turn of tournament championship this year. byu 13-1 on the season and the leading scorer is a guy that's

29. unlv, 12-2 on the season. to the hole and utah has cut it to three. time-out called by trent johnson. daymeon: that's what i'm talking about, he'll put that second present with those things that are nonconference. the daily conference schedule was there and they're trying to make stride to become better players. mat daymeon: and the offensive style. matt: started the game by me asking you the question -- what do we know about the l.s.u. tigers? they are 8-4 on the season.

their strength of schedule 106 which is fourth out of the teams in the sec. but of the eight members -- daymeon: mentioned their wins at home because they have 3-3, how did they deal with it? but the one thing i like about l.s.u. is that guy right no -- right there. you know what he did last year, coach of the year. he's a guy that will get the best out of his players and to have a guy like mitchell and add warren and spencer to that, they have a shot. they have to get more ingredients, more people. matt: warren hits the free throw. a year ago, they had five seniors. those guys combined for 43 points, 22 1/2 rebounds. to trent johnson's credit, he

didn't come in here and try to reinvent the wheel. so oftentimes, coaches will step into a situation and say, well, i've got to do things my way. trent johnson recognized he had a senior laden ballclub and he was able to work with what he had and work it to a 27-8 season. daymeon: he did but he's excited about his team as well. i think he should be. actually had his young players excited about it. a good utah team is making a run of late in the first half. matt: mitchell with 11 points and been a while since they called his name. daymeon: the coach on the sidelines saying no way, matt stewart, got him on the arm. matt: amazing that utah has

blocked 10% of their opponents' shots. 83 blocks as a team and you see foster, 4.3. number one in the mountain west and number four in the nation. came into tonight's ballgame on pace for 125. that was the school record at utah set by luke neville last year at l.s.u. daymeon: you know what neville did last year, the mountain west conference. but right now, when you look at this, i think they had what they get into conference play. matt: threw it behind carlon brown. back on the break. jim boylen, his third season since 2007. been the utah coach. 13 seasons in the nba with the rockets, the warriors and the bucs as an assistant coach. and then assistant tom izzo for three seasons. actually two seasons before getting the utah job.

daymeon: you know they really demand toughness out of their players, to be a physical team and i think if there's one thing that coach boylen will want more is get tougher physically and mentally. daymeon: that was just the second miss bys to minimum mitchell in this ballgame. inside they go to washburn and no place to go with it. in the corner, glover passes up the three. steps inside the arc. daymeon: could have rushed it. the consensus is and a nice j in style. matt: glover has five. he averages only 2.7 per game. mitchell in the three. but it's knocked away and called on utah. daymeon: you see mitchell could have taken that. he stands, nice pump fake.

one dribble and knocked it down. you look at the way he's played here, and l.s.u. teams which has good calls. we talked about mitchell has impressed me a lot in this first half. matt: mitchell with 12 points. you see his numbers on the season. 17.3. it's his third best in the conference. 9.2 rebounds, also third best in the conference. daymeon: i think that's what separates them. a lot of girls put up 17, 18 points her game. will make him have to be locked at for the next level and getting 40 minutes of every game. matt: solid 6'7" and 238 pounds. no one is going to knock him around. five point lead for l.s.u. walks it up the floor for the

tigers. he's number one in the conference in turnover ratio. there you get 3.3. drca on the floor got tied up. stayed with it. washburn, no place to go with it. utah resetting the offense. drca, really tough move. got banged around and still got the basket. daymeon: he says that was an -- i'm playing through it anyway. matt: smile at this point. that's the way we're going to play tonight. warren back to the basket. working in there but washburn fouled him.

l.s.u. with a five point lead. watch the beautiful pass and then warren completes it.

matt: five point lead for l.s.u. and we've been talking about storm warren and the great way he is in production. he's top six in the nation. elliott williams went from duke to memphis. that's your biggest increase and we'll see elliott williams and the memphis tigers take on southern miss next saturday, our css viewers will. storm warren there at the bottom of the list but that's the top of the nation. daymeon: that's very important to see because, you know, if you're a young player out there, no matter what level you're in, middle school, high school, college, even at the next level, the pros, a lot of times you may be frustrated and may not be where you want to as far as your minutes or the numbers that you have. warren had to go into a lot of work into the off season getting into the jam when other people was going out.

he was into the gym. he was in the weight room and improving his game and you see he nails it. matt: warren gives l.s.u. a six-point lead. he's number one in the sec, as well, at 4 1/2 offensive rebounds per game. seven point lead. daymeon: keep this guy off of the offensive glass by any means necessary so that's where he'll continue to get challenged. matt: washburn, washburn looking. pass underneath it. tillie! nice play. daymeon: nice pass and nice reverse lay-in by tillie. matt: talk about an increase in production, not to the extent of warren but holy moly, a bigger

role this senior season for him. anderson had a shot. rejected by bass. l.s.u. u see this? a lot of times people will get up on the play. not bad. and keeping him and thinking he's getting an easy layup. matt: you look and it says right hand and he uses his left hand. great play by carlon brown to get mitchell up in the air and get a foul. carlon brown at the free-throw line. daymeon: carlon was saying that he has every style of jump

shooting. he has to stay on the slower end. that time, though, really beguiled by brown coming inside, taking his time with the little head sake and getting him to fae free-throw line. matt: carlon brown is normally a very short-handed free throw shooter. we approach the two minute mark of this half. daymeon: that could be very important as we see him on the pass rush. matt: contact from both guys. and drca comes up with the steal and he knew he got knocked down. daymeon: these are very important because utah was from this basketball game and could take the momentum.

matt: brown with the runner. what did they say earlier today? a big old fist fight. been pushed to it so far on several occasions. mitchell with the offensive glass and he has 15 here in the first half. nearly has his four game average in the first 20 minutes. 15-6, another double-double. he has two of those in the last three games. an open three and instead drives the paint. daymeon: you can hear the screaming at the top of his lungs -- foul. that was a foul. and the official ran by and

didn't stop to call. matt: shot blocked. that was tillie who got a piece of that one, i think. minute to play in the half. steps back and fires the three. tillie knocked away the rebound. time-out will be called by utah with 49 1/2 seconds left in the half. coming up, we'll take a look at the top five pick men in the nation and daymeon fishback, top five in the sec and sec news and notes, bad situation and, of course, this ballgame right now that is a six point game. the l.s.u. tigers leading from the get go. storm warren so far tonight, 14 points.

he and tasmin mitchell in double figures for this night. matt: ready to score, pay for the basket. get up and going to the rim. he and mitchell are somebody and hard to call. they get you in a lot of ways. matt: we talked with how spencer, warren and mitchell. 71% of the l.s.u. offense. spencer has been on the bench for fouls so mitchell and just picked up his production himself. both at the per game averages. in fact, mitchell is two points shy of that and warren is already there. daymeon: going to see a lot of difference defenses in the sec. see a lot more, like the situation right now where you have those two in.

matt: final 11 seconds to go in this first half. nice shot. two seconds to play. that's at the buzzer. and that is us heading to the half. fading away to keep utah within striking business as the teams head to the locker room. 39-33, l.s.u. seeking to improve to 9-0 at home and a six point lead here at halftime. tigers leading by six.

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and his unrelenting attitude on the floor and his performance incredibly consistent. the veteran among the highly touted freshmen class of kentucky is patrick patterson. second effort on the offensive glass and his play in the lane has been his calling card his entire wildcat career. underneath the coach john calipari his offensive arsenal is expanding and now he has the accurate mid range jumper. there's a lot to admire in this true blue collar star. unlike many of the great shot blocking big men in player history, greg monroe's goal is that of a skillful offensive player in the intricate georgetown offense. he's an excellent passer. he has great moves close to the basket. and he can make the mid-range jumper when left open and he can use the bounce to navigate in the lane.

if you like shot blocking, you're going to love jarvis of mississippi state. the long and mean menardo patrols the paint guarding his own man and swatting away shots to those entering his domain. jarvis is looking to add to his already impressive numbers in his senior year. he had 170 blocks as a junior and he's on pace. >> so that's a look at bob wenzel's top five big men in the nation. let's take a look at daymeon fishback's top five big men in the sec. >> matt, it's a lot of padres in the paint. big daddy patrolling the paint area, you look at jarvis, he's always a block party. next one on pace to pass, tim duncan, that's right. already passed shaquille o'neal in the sec. you got patrick patterson and patterson extending, and another phenomenal game against louisville today and then you have warren. a double-double every time he steps on the floor and the smooth australian in a.j.ogelby,

best in the sec. matt: and our viewers on css will be able to see jarvis and mississippi state take on wen kentucky, the hilltoppers monday night at 9:00 eastern. halftime here at the pmac. couldo really save you

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of 39-33. matt stewart joined by daymeon fishback and jim boylen was afraid his team would have problems in the rebounding department. they trail by six on the scoreboard. daymeon: i'm impressed by the way utah came back. spencer was on the bench, though. it will be an interesting second half. matt: let's take a look on the our sec news and notes. at the top, number 14 tennessee, four players including the star tyler smith and also cameron tatum, another start you are, brian williams and melvin goings have been suspended indefinitely following their arrest on misdemeanor drug and weapons charges. that's about 50% of their offensive production. see how that thing plays out. number three kentucky remains undefeated. now 15-0 with a win over louisville this afternoon. jamichael of alabama named the sec player of the week and demarcus cousins who went for 18-18 today for kentucky against louisville sec freshman of the week. scores from around the conference. uab a winner at arkansas by one.

baylor knocked off south carolina. auburn routed georgia southern. it was vandy over southern miss. we mentioned kentucky beat louisville and georgia was beaten badly at missouri. here, it's l.s.u. by six.

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matt: l.s.u. 39, utah 33. let's take a look back at the first half highlights and three point shooting came them in the game early. daymeon: talk about the inside-outside combination. on the road also and they've got those shots going inside and out, matt. and then you look at l.s.u., l.s.u. has mitchell. his name is storm warren, and he's been doing as well on the inside. we look at some of the numbers. in the first half, and then for l.s.u., 15-13 respectively for mitchell and warren. matt: and 13 second chance points for the tigers to utah's four and a look at the storm warren scoring line. a little bit more in detail and a look at his mads and misses. daymeon: well, tasmin mitchell, you know, he's got his own web site.

i think it's mr.versatility.com. look at all shows shots and behind the three-point line. those guys on the floor, he shows you he can post up and he can do it from mid range and knock it behind the three-point line as well. matt: two points shy of his two game average already. and warren with his 13 points. he's already at his per game average as well. you mentioned earlier, warren hit seven double-doubles. mitchell has four this season. 20 for his career and he's on his way, perhaps, notching his other one here tonight. daymeon: you mentioned him being in foul trouble in that first half. i look for him to try to get involved early in the second half. matt: mitchell and rebound

controlled by foster. foster end upsetting a good deal there in that first half as well because of his foul trouble and tillie missed the reverse and warren ends up with it. daymeon: you're right. utah playing a lot off of foster. using him to go inside, to try to cut off of him and use him as a decoy to get better looks outside. matt: l.s.u. in their home whites and utah in the road reds. inside they go to warren. daymeon: move foster out of the way. he has to be stronger and hold his ground a little bit more. matt: 15 for him. henderson and the rebound controlled by tillie. tillie really keeps things active here and he's the guy that coming into the season had a career scoring average of less than four. now averaging over nine and over six rebounds per game. daymeon: right there, you look at this out of bounds play. a lot of times teams go to sleep here. this always kind of gives you an

idea about the extra energy in the second half when you see these plays. matt: had it stripped out of his hands and that foul, by the way, it was called on warren. it was his second. daymeon: utah is going back in style and having some success. trying to play off some of the big men. matt: wow, nice pass, inside to tillie. tillie's got eight. tillie, a young man who was limited to 11 games his freshman season because of an ankle injury and never averaged more than five points per game in his first three seasons. kinsley had his shot blocked and henderson was notted able to save it. daymeon: yeah, he was. matt: it is going utah's way.

back in the starting line-ups. start the second half. tillie off the back iron. the rebound for l.s.u. bo spencer with two points so far in this ballgame. he had 20 in the loss to xavier earlier this week. tasmin mitchell. daymeon: both players had the uncanny ability to create space and really get a good look at the basket just about every time they went. mitchell was one of those guys. matt: and the rebound pulled down by warren. a little quick. daymeon: coach trying to keep that and make a run in the first five minutes, you know, you've got to make that shot because

you really want to get l.s.u. off. matt: eight point lead for l.s.u. early, second half. dotson stops him in the baseline. down to eight on the shot clock. and spencer got stopped by tavita. daymeon: let's understand, utah actually outscored l.s.u. 12-6 and so as you see these substitutions, it will be interesting to see if the depth of utah takes place in this second half as well. matt: well, mitchell and warren have 15 points a piece. outside of that, nobody else for l.s.u. has more than three. warren, the rebound. and mitchell got fouled into the back by washburn.

daymeon: what you saw that time was really no box out by utah and if you don't box out a good rebounding team such as l.s.u., outrebound their opponents by more than five a game, you're going to struggle. matt: tillie got his long arms on that and knocked out of bounds. it will be l.s.u.'s ball. daymeon: now you have brown back in the game for utah. we talked about him on the star watch. if he gets going in this second half as well. see if spencer can get going here. they've got their top defensive guy lined up on spencer. less than 10 now on the shot clock.

spencer threw it over the head of kinsley. out of bounds. daymeon: no ball movement. when you see the look on the coach's face, making some changes in there. no ball movement. no man movement. good job of defending by utah but l.s.u. didn't make it work defensively on that trip. matt: spencer out of his rhythm frustrated by the defense. he anticipated when the horn blew, he started walking towards the bench. thought he was coming out. came in for kinsley instead. tillie's pass swatted away by dotson. got his hands on it and now, 11 on the shot clock. tillie inside, watson went looking for it. pass ahead to spencer. couldn't control it. daymeon: he was up in the first row of the seats here at the

pmac center. daymeon: getting a little messy here.

oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that!

you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. tonight. three personal fouls. he hasn't been able to get into his rhythm. he's 1-3 shooting. he averages close to 16 shots per game. daymeon: the most difficult obstacles to overcome as a player is not being on the floor. so obviously, it takes you out of your rhythm. you get stiff on the sideline and so he's just trying to get his engine back going again. you know, if i'm coach johnson, i'll make that -- maybe run him a play doing something to get him involved and get him going in this second half.

matt: jace tavita has been on him and tavita is not on the floor right now. that opens things up a little bit for spencer with tavita on the bench. down to eight on the shot clock for utah. five, drca, no place to go with it. carlon brown, shot blocked by dotson. shot clock violation. daymeon: coach johnson excited about that. offensively and defense wins championships and your dada knows about that. you see the good, active hands and active feet by l.s.u. but 35 seconds on the shot clock. that's what we've got. matt: three blocks in this game for l.s.u. four blocks for utah. they are the big shot blocking team with six a game. warren, working against foster. got a piece of that shot. mitchell gets it up there. warren gets it back in.

largest lead of the ballgame. now 10 for l.s.u. and a time-out called by jim boylen.

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rebounding, matt. matt: utah number one in the mountain west a year ago, dead last out of 19 so far this season and they've given up 16 points so far tonight, second chance points. daymeon: you can't do that in a win especially on the road. allowing teams to out rebound you in the offensive end is not giving yourself a chance to win. coach boylen knows that. double digit lead tonight and a little bit more here. matt: takes it to the hole. carlon brown trying to get it back. the foul.

daymeon: no help defense that time by any of the teammates so what you have is good offense, just some subpar defense on the last one. matt: carlon brown at the line. six for him. he was upset at the entire team after they lost to pepperdine in their final game before christmas in front of only 612 people in riverside, california. that's the low point for utah. brought them to 5-7 on the season. after the game, he said it was unacceptable they were two games under .500. utah going through some tough times right now. especially right before christmas with that loss.

trying to block mitchell along the sideline there. daymeon: mitchell was a guy who could have went on as a fifth year senior and could have went to the next level. instead, he decided to stay and now he's really trying to put this team on his shoulders and on his back along with warren and simpson. matt: mitchell directing traffic. looking to get his ball to his buddy. working to much bigger foster. still nothing doing yet with 10 seconds on the shot clock. warren had the shot. i think altered by foster and mitchell got it right across the bridge of the nose as he was cutting through the lane. daymeon: again, you can see

mitchell comes to the offsides on the ball and really trying to keep him off that offensive glass that makes him so strong and so physical, difficult to keep him from getting to the rim. matt: mitchell rebound controlled by carlon brown. glover. glover had a nice first half. a little something for this utah team. really one of the young pieces to the puzzle here for this utes team that jim boylen admits that it takes about a year for guys to learn his plan. daymeon: right now, this is a crucial run. and of course, you look at the utes being down eight points. if they're going to get back into it, they have to get dotson on the defensive end, you know, best part of the basketball team, whenever they've gotten in

a bind, they go to warren inside. matt: mitchell missed the runner and ball last touched by l.s.u. utah's ball. they were down by as much as 12 and comes down to four. right back in the ballgame. daymeon: this is what i'm talking about as far as when you get into conference play for l.s.u., matt, most of these plays have been going to mitchell and warren and they've been getting stopped by utah. you have to get some other options and help. some other guys, whether be dotson or others to step up and become that fifth option for l.s.u. matt: the runner. and utah's back with six straight points. 10 for dircha. senior out of belgrade, serbia.

looks to be back up with the match up zone. spencer shoots the floater on foster and foster had the rebound. had it knocked away by spencer. spencer, 1-4 from the floor. dotson takes it to the hole and l.s.u. has a six point lead. a job hunting expense ?

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frustrating right there. you can almost see it on his face, like he wants to be doing something. generally when he gets the ball, he's like i'm taking this up but he has to have more activity. he's too big of a player to have ta a night like tonight. when you get in foul trouble, it gets tough. you kind of get into a lull, kind of nonchalant. he has to have some homemade energy in the second half. matt: previous mode this season with a five point performance in that blow out loss to utah or rather, uconn, at madison square garden and he was hurt for the last 14 minutes of that ballgame and he hurt his ankle, missed the next game against arizona state. to the hole and a foul is going to be called on kinsley. jace tavita went to the rack on him and tavita will be at the line -- or i'm sorry, drca will be at the line. daymeon: drca has been very active. you talked about him. out of bell gaygrade in serbia.

the one thing about yugoslavians, they always play really tough. a lot of the players in nba now from over there. and it's a very tough league. a league to where they demand toughness. they demand both toughness physically and mentally and you see that out of drca here tonight. matt: 11 points for him. he's been in double figures now, five times in the last six games. and his career high, 18 against illinois state. only seven in that off to pepperdine and then set a new career high with 19 earlier this week. watching sec basketball, utah vs. l.s.u. at the pete maravich center in baton rouge, louisiana. mralt stewart and daymeon fishback with you and happy new year to you. watching across the southeast and the nation today.

the rebound and control back to tavita for utah. harris pulls it out of there, gives it to spencer. four point game after utah had fallen behind by their largest margin. they've been a different team ever since and tillie the rebound. daymeon: they're getting stopped there, matt. if they can manufacture a little spurt here, give them a run, make it be on their way to a w. matt: garrett green ahead to spencer. spencer alley-oop to harris. missed it. got fouled, however, by tillie on the play.

look at college basketball. espn.com for georgia tech, lethal weapon 3 star and former georgia bulldogs coach talking hoops. it begins in january this month on the css. harris off back iron. l.s.u. in a lull here. what happened to them? daymeon: you know, we talked about the ability on this play. they need more of what you see there. they need harris. he's a guy who is athletic, has a tremendous up side. he just has to continue to apply the athleticism and play with more confidence and i know coach trent johnson wants that from him and all the other players on the team. matt: l.s.u. has gone more than four minutes without a basket. henderson fading away.

henderson makes it a three point game. he's had a couple of 20 point games here in his first collegiate season. mitchell driving. and foster looking defensively, knocks the shot out of bounds. daymeon: storm warren getting back saying i've had enough. his presence getting missed. that goes to having some type of inside presence and take some stuff off the perimeter on the outside. matt: approaching five minutes without a basket for l.s.u. they've seen a 12 point lead whittle to three. warren got fouled by tillie. or foster, one or the other. probably on foster. daymeon: warren comes back inside immediately. he goes to the rim. and gets a tie. that foul was on tillie.

number four. you made a good point. your fourth foul on tillie. along with that, you get baskets at the rim and so you're hitting teams twice. matt: l.s.u. gets their points at the free-throw line right now while they're having difficulty scoring. come out and a fresh three coming for utah. daymeon: the three-point line, want to stand outside and shoot threes all day but going into the basket, you can control the game. matt: warren, 9-11 from the free-throw line tonight. 51% free throw shooter on the season. he is 9-11. and i believe only one other free throw shooter of the tigers outside of warren. henderson, long three.

rebound controlled by bass. daymeon: that's how you go get a rebound. that's what they talked about. they said the other players on the team don't have to do so much as far as scoring. do little things to help the team lead. matt: lid remains on the basket for l.s.u. and last touched by henderson as he knocked it out of bounds. daymeon: i liked the foul that time by henderson. you know, you see it going inside. and you see, this is what wins these games. despite the loose ball, look who comes up on short end at that time but the good effort. matt: 13:48 the last time l.s.u. scored a bucket from the floor. everything since then has come from the free-throw line. all five points. dots dotson, foul underneath. going to be on utah.

time-out and l.s.u. holding on to a five point lead at home.

matt: has allowed the utes to get back into this game and turn the deficit into five. daymeon: you see here, we talk about other players besides the big trio. get it inside. but we look at that hustle by henderson. defensively that shows you. calls a time-out. much different energy. again, you see a guy that when you get into sec play, you'll have some more guys and you'll struggle a little bit. you go through that drought and have an l.s.u. team that goes on a 10-3 run or actually had a 10-3 run against them and now had the utah team that's back into this basketball game.

matt: mitchell now with 18. nine rebounds. so up close to that double-double and may have stayed alive at the free-throw line here. they're nearly six minutes now without a bucket. 5:48 and counting. but the lead back to seven as mitchell hits both of those free throws. you see the second half shooting here and both -- you see utah 3-6. they've taken half of the shots as l.s.u. is 3-12 and the tigers are now 49d% from the floor for the entire game but they can build the lead back to 9 or 10 if they can hit a three. committed the foul after failing to get the three. daymeon: this is the style that i like, a gritty player in the passing lane. just came up a little short. l.s.u. a little lackadaisical with the basketball right now. 7:34 and the basketball, not

happy by any means. it has to be a shocker. matt: bass at the free-throw line. string of makes for them at the charity stripe. ball last touched by l.s.u. empty possession for the tigers. daymeon: empty possessions, what utah has done is turned it up on the defensive end but offensesively they have still yet to get anything going consistently. a couple of shots from the perimeter, has some inside chances. nice back cuts to the rim. but no consistent offense here tonight. matt: foul will be called on dotson. shooting well from the floor here in the second half. turned cold. daymeon: second chance points and this has been the game, 17-16.

and he was 37-31 at the half. they go back inside to foster. and foster got pushed. but i'll take that. as long as utah, i'll take that inside-outside action. you look at foster. and he's got to be stronger with the basketball. he has to push but if he can hold his ground and go straight up, he'll be a problem in that mountain west conference. matt: foster back following a two year mission and played in 2006 and 2007 as a freshman. played five minutes per game and come back and now is a 21-year-old sophomore. one of nine children. and among his nine siblings, two sets of twins.

five point game as foster put it in the free-throw line. daymeon: if i'm l.s.u., i'm going right back inside to warren where they've had success all night. matt: nearly seven minutes without a bucket for l.s.u. warren, pass intercepted. utah already with big wins over illinois and michigan to their credit, trying to add l.s.u. to that list. tillie, knocked down the three. three point game as trent johnson calls time-out and daymeon, unless the l.s.u. tigers can finally hit some baskets, they're not going to win this game. they've gone seven minutes without a field goal.

daymeon: not only baskets but turned the basketball over. give credit to brown, we talked about his ability to penetrate on our star watch. draws three defenders and tillie doing what's necessary. converting with the three-pointer from behind the arc. nothing but straight music. matt: so tillie now with 10 points has utah back to within three after they trailed by as much as 12. more sec basketball coming up tuesday night for our viewers on css and the sec and acc battle, georgia and georgia tech. join me along with artherial green live from the coliseum at 7:00 eastern. daymeon: that will be a good matchup. you have two young players there in tray thompson in the sec and, of course, everyone knows about derek for georgia tech, just a beast. so those two young guys ought to be able to go at it. matt: what a way to end your nonconference schedule taking on

your biggest rivalry in that conference. georgia has georgia tech and then they open the conference against kentucky. daymeon: well, right now, very exciting in the game of basketball. mentioned this game here tonight. both teams important. kind of a snowball effect every season. you want to win this game. you want to have your system in place, guys knowing their role and have positive outlooks. matt: you're watching sec basketball. utah and l.s.u. from pete maravich center in baton rouge, louisiana. matt stewart along with daymeon fishback and happy new year to you. l.s.u. leading by only three now as they have seen their double-digit lead dwindle here since they can't score. by the time they get it back, the drought will be over eight minutes. carlon brown got fouled by dotson. that will be number five for him.

dotson fouls out with five points. daymeo daymeon: a lot of styles in there. right now, i think warren trying to go at it too quickly. needs a little bit more ball movement. go inside and then play off of that. right now, utah has a chance to either tie or cut the lead to one. matt: philly, back inside they go to foster. foster back inside to warren. foster with the lead. daymeon: i like that. the kid to go to, because right now, when you look at these two teams, both of them are going inside and the defense is going to utah. daymeon: over eight minutes since l.s.u. hit a field goal.

they led 47-35 and it's now a 52-51 game. there are five points and they've all come from the free-throw line and spencer, it goes from bad to worse for bo spencer. he's now 1-5 as he air balls that attempt. daymeon: i commend spencer for not trying to force it tonight. but you can't turn it on and turn it off. you have to get a better look to that. if i'm spencer, too big, strong, too athletic, i'd be trying to get to the rim a little bit more. matt: utah hit an early three point bucket and puts them back in the lead! daymeon: we got us a ballgame. utah defending. l.s.u. struggling. warren not getting it done inside. right now, look for mitchell to get it offensively for l.s.u. matt: nine minutes for l.s.u. since they scored a bucket. will they ever score again, daymeon? kinsley and finally!

game tied at 54. carlon brown hits the floater. pops it over warren. and back to when they fell by 12 and boylen called that time-out thinking the game was slipping away and got right back into it. foster made him change his shot. mitchell's second chance shot, johnson screaming on the sidelines. thought there was a foul. over to tillie. tillie and here's a shot blocked by warren! under four minutes to play.

daymeon: give credit to him battling with mitchell. not letting him have the basketball. matt: kinsley, reach-in foul. i believe it will be called on drca. 3:27 to play. marshall henderson shoots utah into the lead. [ crowd gasps ] [ announcer ] if you think about it, this is a lot like most job search sites. - they let everyone in, - [ crowd groans ] so the best people can't stand out. join theladders.com.

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welcome home, man. matt: utah with a two point lead on l.s.u. trying to saddle the tigers with their first home loss of the season and utah just getting it done more effectively on the offensesive end than l.s.u. daymeon: they changed their strategy, struggling a little bit shooting from outside. now going inside. you see the penetration on both these plays, inside-outside action. knocking down the three and

we're trying on get a w here today. matt: and david foster, seven blocks tonight. 9.7 blocks, five rebounds. his career high and school record, he set earlier this season when he swatted 10 shots against their opponent. kinsley at the line. he hit the bucket a few moments ago that snapped their 9:14 second drought and just hit a free throw so he's got three points here in the last minute or so to keep them within striking distance, down one and the ball will belong to l.s.u. kicked out of bounds. daymeon: wow, coach boylen with his head on the sidelines. offensive rebounds continue to hurt utah. you've got to come out with that one. especially in a game that you're up one point. matt: spencer only two points

tonight and they're averaging close to 20 in his last five games. daymeon: obviously, they've got mitchell playing outside more along with coach trent johnson wants the basketball in his hands to try to make him make a decision. matt: spencer driving, kicking out mitchell. kinsley, ludwig, down to five on the shot clock. ludwig in trouble. kicks it to warren with two and banks it in. l.s.u. back in the lead by one. daymeon: l.s.u. forceing it there. warren didn't get called with an offensive foul that time on foster. we got us a game here. looks like a good one. matt: coming in here and steal a big road victory and conference opponents.

foster, feeding back. tillie, it's tied up, gets the lead. matt: and coach trent johnson here in his second season, 8-1 in games decided by five points or less. and the foul is going to be called on spencer. time-out called by utah and boylen. what do you do, coach? >> right now, you know, l.s.u., we talked about how they were -- they were doing really early, how you see how they ran for the p.c. notice, how they don't mention on them. on this basketball game, utah was bringing everything they had to the table.

it's the lackadaisical pass. utah into the passing lane. you have to have a lot more energy and be more excited, have more sense of urgency to try to get this game for 40 minutes as we talked about at the beginning of the game. matt: what's boylen telling his guys over there? daymeon: obviously, put themselves in this position, matt. all they have to do is do what they've done the past five or 10 minutes to go on this run which is go inbound out and control with the basketball and be patient offensively. matt: exactly two minutes to play. with l.s.u. up by one. at home against a utah team trying to get the upset and he banks it in. one point lead for utah. the most they have led by in this ballgame, the two when henderson hit a three a few moments ago. daymeon: 56-54 their largest

lead. they lead by one right now. approaching 90 seconds to play. spencer behind the back in the lane. can't hit a shot. he's missed five shots tonight. with a foul called on utah. and tillie just fouled out. daymeon: fighting for that rebound and points to the game but his friends know he was very active off the ball to get big numbers. 10 points for the team but right now, he didn't finish it enough. matt: check in for tillie who fouled out with 10 points and seven rebounds. we'll miss his offensesive here with 85 seconds left to play. both spencer who has struggled

so might ily tonight, chance to shoot l.s.u. back into the lead. it ties the game at 58. daymeon: on utah the next offensesive possession. matt: and a time-out called by l.s.u. with 85 seconds. l.s.u. now playing, let's talk about what they're doing in their huddle right now. daymeon: you know you have to stop. the question is how do you get that stop? what has utah been doing? right now, utah is going to the basket at will, you got to take a little bit more pride in your defense if you're l.s.u. stay for the basketball. help your teammates. help them recover, communicate on the defensive end. utah, on the other hand, i'm telling them just that. we're getting to the basket. be patient. but if you get opportunities, get to the lane and get