What happened
Baton Rouge, La. – sofomori Rueben Chinyelu and Thomas Howa They published double couples and were in the middle of Florida’s return for the second half, as the second ranked Gators gathered from eight points down to beat the LSU 79-65 in its game at a southeastern conference on Saturday night at the Assembly Center of Maravic.
Chinyelu scored a career 19 points, 13 rebounds and two blocked shots, while Howe finished with 16 points, 10 boards and three assists. Their work on the glass was basic, as Gators, the winners of six straight, broke the tigers for the advantage of 48-33 bounce and 17-8 margin in points of a second chance. The Edge of UF at the points in the paint was 44-24.
The end result was not indicative of the tenor of the game. UF, after blowing a 14-point lead from the first half, had to overcome the deficit of the second half, in which visitors reduced 46-38 by just over 15 minutes. Hau scored 13 points in the second half, with a handful of energy buckets and playing during the rally. Pertine Alia MartinIt also appeared during large sequences of the second half. He returned to the starting lineup for the first time in five games and finished with 14 points and six rebounds, including six consecutive points during a major late section to help put the game.
Senior guard Walter Clayton -Jr. Add 13 points and six rebounds while junior guard Denzel Aberdeen He got off the bench for 11 points. Gators, winning its sixth rights, launched 55.6 percent in the second half (after 32.4 in the first) and protect the tigers at 38.1 for the game and nine out of 31 3-point line (29.0 percent).
LSU uses a 22-2 mileage tingling in the last six minutes of the first half to erase a 14-point UF lead and take the lead 37-31 to the dressing room. The margin was eight after a Curtis Givens III 3-Pecaprus when floating with low chinyelu and transitional arrangement by HAUGH initiates 14-3 Blitz for Gators, with a quick reserve security guard Urban Klavzar Giving the UF lead that never returned.
Three minutes later, the UF was eight, but the margin returned to four. Martin bombarded 3-indicated then, followed by an old-fashioned 3-point game (out of theft of Will Richard This initiates a quick understanding) to bring out the Gators 10. The rest was 18 with just over two minutes, as LSU made only two of their last 10 goal attempts. Florida exceeded the LSU 48-28 in the second half.

What does it mean
Gators coincided with their overall victory in their regular season last year (24) and the number of wins in the league game (11), while based on Texas A&M, losing at home earlier in the day of Tennessee-improving the place its in the SEC ranking. UF stays in two-way draw with Alabama for second place (two matches behind Obun), but has a lead of 1.5 Missouri games (subject to change later Saturday) and a two-games of A&M games and Tennessee in The Striving to secure a two -day bye in the conference tournament next month.
In the light of the floodlights
Chinyelu was an animal in the post. It was his third double double for the season. It was his fourth direct match with double -digit scoring, after only three of the first 24 games of the team. This is a great response to a teammate of a sophomore and a leading rebander Alex Condon Getting off with ankle injury before four games. More out of this, please.
Striking statistics
The game marks the fifth straight, which Florida put five different players in a double figure scoring, the first in the history of the program.
Forward
Florida (24-3, 11-3) returns to the road on Tuesday night for a rematch against Georgia (16-11, 4-10), which will start a mileage of four consecutive games with quadrant 1 according to the NCAA assessment instrument To end the regular season. Bulldogs gave №1 Auburn, went on the road earlier on Saturday before losing 82-70 for their fourth consecutive defeat. LSU (14-13, 3-11) plays host No. 6 Tennessee.
E -mail senior writer Chris Harry of chrish@gators.ufl.edu