Everything Nate Oats said after 109-92 win at LSU

“This was a big road win that we needed to get if we’re going to stay in the hunt to win the league. I thought LSU came ready to go. We had no answer for (Will) Baker in the first half. Then they made their run, went up one or two there in the second half at just under 10 to go, if I remember right. And then kind of the way we play, we got a barrage of threes, opened it up and then that was kind of it. But I thought LSU did a really good job being ready to go on their offensive end, kind of attacking some weaknesses on us.

“I thought we made some decent adjustments. Our guards started helping our bigs a little bit more on Baker, turning him over a little bit more. We ended up with 23 points off turnovers. We thought we needed to try to turn them over a little more. We only got 12 turnovers, but we were able to score on most of them. And then I thought the job Nick Pringle did in the second half was really good on Baker. And then our guards rebounded. We ended up out-rebounding them by 12, which we knew we needed to do playing a small lineup.

“(Latrell Wrightsell Jr.) ended up with 10 with a double-double for the first time this year. He’s been close. He played great. He shot 6-of-9 from three. I keep trying to tell him you can’t turn down open threes. He shoots it way too well. I still think he turned some open ones down tonight. He was great. But he had 10 rebounds. (Mark) Sears had eight rebounds. I thought Sears played a great game. He ended up with five assists, two turnovers. Rylan (Griffen): six assists, zero turnovers. Trelly: four assists, zero turnovers. (Aaron) Estrada: seven assists, one turnover. So if you add that up, that’s 22 assists to three turnovers. That’s pretty impressive from those four guards that started.

“We’ve been on these guys about rebounding, turnovers, defensive intensity. We’ve got to get our frontcourt to guard a little bit better, but I thought our backcourt was pretty good about everything we’ve been on them about. And it was big to get a win. LSU is a markedly improved team. They blew out Arkansas at home recently. They play a lot better at home. We haven’t played great on the road. So I thought to kind of be able to blow this thing open at the end was big on a number of fronts.”