A pair of lengthy second-half runs and a season-high 27 points by Cam Carter propelled LSU to a 78-74 victory over Arkansas Tuesday night at the M

LSU’s offense was sluggish to start against Arkansas (11-6, 0-4), missing its first seven shots. Corey Chest got the Tigers on the scoreboard with a baseline drive for a two-hand dunk at the 15:37 mark of the first half.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Cam Carter scored 27 points and LSU beat Arkansas 78-74 on Tuesday night. LSU’s Jordan Sears made a pair of free throws to end the scoring with 21 seconds left. Arkansas missed its next two shots and had its last shot blocked.

LSU basketball needed to snap its SEC losing streak on Tuesday night, and against Arkansas, that's exactly what the Tigers did.

The Tigers have an identical schedule, but two of their conference losses have come to unranked Vanderbilt and Missouri. Most recently, Arkansas hung tough against Florida, but didn't have enough offense in a 71-63 loss at home.

Anthony Kristensen joins the show from Baton Rouge to discuss Arkansas basketball's loss to LSU. Then Matt Jones and Ethan Westerman talk about what the rest of this season could look like and baseball updates.

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Arkansas-LSU prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Arkansas-LSU. It’s desperation time for these two teams as they meet on a packed Tuesday night in college basketball.