10 nonconference games to watch | TigerFan.com

bayareatiger · Nov 10, 2006

Three of the top 10 nonconference games involve our boys.

Shows both the love that we're getting after last year AND the depth of our OOC schedule.

Nice to get some props for both. :thumb:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/preview2006/news/story?id=2656047

ESPN.com said:

Texas A&M at LSU, Dec. 5
...carries the major intrigue, as it's a rematch of last season's thrilling second-round NCAA game which LSU won on a 3 in the dying seconds. Watching the Joseph Jones-Glen Davis battle in the post will be well worth the price of admission.

LSU vs Texas in Houston, Dec. 10
A pretty top-notch way to cap a great weekend of nonconference hoops. This is a rematch of one of last season's NCAA tourney regional finals, won by LSU in overtime. Sure, the Longhorns are missing a lot of faces from that meeting, but this could be a national coming-out party for stud freshman Kevin Durant -- if he can handle Big Baby and Magnum Rolle inside. It also could register pretty large on the recruiting scale if LSU can top the Horns again, especially in the Lone Star State.

UConn at LSU, Jan. 6
One of a number of tempting nonconference games sprinkled into the middle of conference season and a matchup that, on the weekend of last March's Elite Eight, many thought could have been the 2006 national championship game. By this point in the season, the youthful Huskies should have grown up some and figured out what they'll be getting from A.J. Price at the point. The matchup of the day, though, will be LSU's Glen "Big Baby" Davis against 7-3 Tanzanian Hasheem Thabeet.
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gumborue · Nov 10, 2006

shouldnt have left out wichita st.