Will Wade and the LSU Tigers went to South Carolina on Saturday night and lost 77-75 to the Gamecocks.
It was a tough loss for a team that was trying to stay within striking distance of a top-4 seed in the SEC standings, dropping the Tigers to 7-7 in league play.
LSU went 13-for-22 from the free-throw line (59.1%), and Wade wasn’t happy about that. He said the team’s poor free-throw shooting finally caught up with it (via On3Sports):
“I thought our six-minute game, being solid on defense, making free throws and valuing the ball, I thought it would catch up with us. I was not happy with our six-minute game against Mississippi State and the team kind of thought I was a little bit crazy,” Wade said. “But I mean look, we missed the front end of a critical one and one. We just don’t finish off possessions like we need to and the free throw line and that’s disappointing.
“We’re going to keep working on it, but I’ve never seen a team that goes from – I mean we were shooting it so well early in the year – that now we’re not even just adequate at the free throw line, we’re poor at the free throw line. So we’ve really regressed there and hopefully we can find out footing here before the end of the season.”
LSU currently ranks 11th in the SEC in free-throw percentage, knocking down 70.4% of their shots from the charity stripe.
We’ll see if the Tigers can turn things around at the line moving forward. Their fate in the SEC Tournament and March Madness may depend on it.
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