FINAL A&M 85, @LSU 73

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http://www.secsports.com/boxscore/mens-basketball/400910718

A&M  11-10, 3-6 SEC
LSU     9-12, 1-8 SEC

A&M                            LSU
11-10  Wins - Losses  9-12
71.8     Points             74.7
68.2    Points Allowed  81.0
3-6      SEC Record      1-8
L2        Streak             L8

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Sheldon Mickles ‏@MicklesAdvocate 51m51 minutes ago

FINAL SCORE from the PMAC -- Texas A&M 85, #LSU 73. LSU is 9-13, 1-9 in the SEC; A&M is 12-10, 4-6 SEC. LSU plays at Ky.on Tuesday night.

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Sheldon Mickles: LSU men's basketball falls to Texas A&M, extending losing streak to nine in a row

The start of the second half of the Southeastern Conference schedule didn't look much different than the end of the first half for the LSU men's basketball team.

After closing the first nine-game stretch of the league schedule with seven consecutive setbacks, LSU's losing streak in the conference grew Saturday night to eight games — and nine overall — after an 85-73 loss to Texas A&M in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

While it was more of the same since LSU's last win exactly a month earlier at Missouri, there was at least one positive: The Tigers managed to hold a lead for the first time in three games, a stretch that went back to a 35-point setback to Florida on Jan. 25.

When Brandon Sampson made the first basket of the game at the 18:45 mark, it had been 117 minutes, 45 seconds since LSU last led. After relinquishing the lead against Florida early in the first half, the Tigers never led during losses to Texas Tech and South Carolina.

It looked like Saturday night might be different, for a few minutes, before the Tigers fell for the 11th time in their past 12 outings.

LSU (9-13, 1-9) went on to lead by as many as seven points — at 11-4 with 14:30 left in the half on Wayde Sims' dunk off a lob from Skylar Mays — before Texas A&M managed to get going three minutes later.

At that point, Texas A&M (12-10, 4-6) went on an 11-3 run to take a one-point lead before Mays drilled a 3-pointer to put his team in front again at 17-15.

But that was it for LSU.