Jan. 3, 2001

Box Score

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Torris Bright scored 18 points, Brian Beshara had 17 and LSU survived a second-half comeback Wednesday night to claim a 73-69 victory over Wyoming.

The victory by LSU (9-1) preserved a 14-game home win streak dating back to last season, and a 25-game home non-conference win streak dating back to a 70-64 loss to Lamar on Dec. 1, 1997.

Wyoming (9-3) was led by Marcus Bailey who added 23 points on 9-of-16 shooting despite only a six-point output in the first half.

The key to the game was Wyoming's inability to take advantage of Tiger mistakes. LSU had 18 turnovers, the second highest mark this season. Wyoming turned the ball over 23 times, a season high.

LSU also was held to its second-worst shooting effort of the season, hitting only 24-of-43 (.381) of its field goal attempts. Wyoming could make just 27-of-68 field goals (39.7 percent), including only 2-of-21 from the 3-point line.

Despite the taller line-up, LSU was able to outrebound the Cowboys 13-6 in the early going. But, as the game went on, Wyoming wore down the smaller Tigers outrebounding them 51-40 for the game. Junior Josh Davis pulled down a career-high 18 boards for the Cowboys.

Ronald Dupree added 15 points for LSU and Collis Temple III had 11.

David Rottinghaus had 16 points for Wyoming and another reserve, Ronell Mingo, added 11.