BATON ROUGE – The LSU men’s basketball team and the Arkansas Razorbacks meet for the first of two games on Tuesday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The game ends shortly after 8 p.m. and tickets for the contest are available online at LSUTix.net. Tickets are also available one hour prior to drop off at the Maravich Center’s upstairs box office. LSU students get in free and the first 250 will receive a free cheeseburger from game sponsor McDonald’s.

The voice of the Tigers, Chris Blair, and former LSU men’s basketball coach John Brady will be heard on the LSU Sports Radio Network (Guaranty Media flagship station Eagle 98.1 FM). Kevin Fitzgerald and Carolyn Peck will host the televised conversation on the SEC Network.

It will be another “Beat The Buzzer” evening as select food and concessions will be half off from gate opening time until 10 minutes before the event begins. The Air Elite Dunkers will appear at halftime and the LSU football team’s new mid-semester enrollees will be introduced to the audience.

Both teams enter the game 11-5 overall and 0-3 in the Southeastern Conference.

LSU suffered losses last week at home to Vanderbilt and on the road at Missouri and Ole Miss. The Tigers played better against Ole Miss in the first half, going on a 15-0 run that gave them the advantage, but LSU failed to capitalize on Ole Miss’ turnovers, scoring only 12 points in the first half of the game.

The Tigers were able to score more in the second half, as they did in their first two SEC games, but were unable to contain the Rebels’ offense in the final 20 minutes.

Cam Carter continued his strong start to SEC play with 16 points. He’s averaging 18 in his first three SEC games, ranking fourth in the league. His average of 17.1 points per game in 16 games ranks eighth in the league. Daimion Collins scored 14 points on 6-of-8 field goal shooting at Ole Miss on Saturday.

Collins scored 25 points this week and was 10 of 14 from the field. He ranks fifth in the SEC in two-point field goal percentage at 71.6 percent.

Arkansas comes to Baton Rouge on the heels of two SEC home losses to Ole Miss and Florida after opening with a road loss at Tennessee. Adou Thiero leads the Razorbacks with 16.9 points per game, Boogie Fland with 15.5 points and DJ Wagner with 10.4 points.

Coach John Calipari is in his first season as head coach at Arkansas after his long tenure at Kentucky.

LSU will be back on the road this Saturday, traveling to Bryan-College Station to take on Texas A&M.