# SEC Men's Basketball: LSU Tigers Dominates LSU New Orleans Privateers 100-57 **Published:** 2026-11-03 — **By:** Stacy Stanfield **Category:** games — **Type:** game-recap **Source:** https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-lsu-tigers-dominates-lsu-new-orleans-privateers-100-57 **Teams:** [LSU](https://secscouts.com/lsu/) **Players:** [Donovan Dent](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5107782/donovan-dent), [Brice Dessert](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5464194/brice-dessert), [Saliou Niang](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5281137/saliou-niang), [Michael Ruzic](https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5458830/michael-ruzic) --- BATON ROUGE, La. (11/02/2026) — The LSU Tigers opened the throttle early and never eased off, routing the LSU New Orleans Privateers 100-57 on Monday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in front of 7,919 fans. Four Tigers scored in double figures, and LSU's 53-17 halftime lead rendered the final 20 minutes a formality in a wire-to-wire victory that featured zero lead changes and zero ties. ## How It Happened LSU set the tone on the game's first possession when Brice Dessert threw down a dunk at the 18:52 mark, and the Tigers piled up a 10-0 lead before the Privateers ever scored. Donovan Dent buried a 26-foot three-pointer off a Saliou Niang assist at 16:31, and Michael Ruzic followed with a dunk — also set up by Niang — to make it 10-0 with 15:40 still left in the half. The interior assault never stopped. Ruzic hammered home another dunk off a Dent feed at 11:39, and the Tigers' transition and rim pressure produced a parade of point-blank finishes. Niang and Dessert threw down back-to-back-to-back dunks in a 40-second span midway through the half, stretching the lead to 37-8, before Dent capped a 13-0 run with another 26-footer off a Skyy Clark assist at 5:41 to make it 40-8. Kahlil Singleton briefly interrupted with a 26-foot three for New Orleans, but LSU kept pouring it on. Dent added a dunk, Ruzic finished another lob from Dent, and Abdi Bashir Jr. drilled a 25-footer off a Divine Ugochukwu assist. Ugochukwu's layup at the first-half buzzer sent LSU to the locker room up 53-17. The second half followed the same script. Dessert opened it with a dunk off yet another Dent assist, Mo Dioubate connected from 23 feet, and Bashir Jr. hit threes on consecutive possessions at 9:26 and 9:07 to push the margin to 84-30. Yohandry Ortiz and Marcus McDonald answered with threes for the Privateers, and Singleton added another late, but the gap never seriously narrowed. Gilad Levy's 25-foot three-pointer with 28 seconds left pushed LSU to the century mark at 100-57. ## Turning Point If a turning point existed, it came in the opening five minutes — specifically LSU's 13-0 run that turned a 28-8 game into a 40-11 blowout. The sequence featured the full range of the Tigers' attack: dunks from Niang and Dessert inside and Dent's second deep three of the half from 26 feet. By the time Singleton stopped the run, New Orleans had been held without a field goal for an extended stretch and the outcome was effectively decided before the midpoint of the first half. The numbers behind the margin were just as stark. LSU shot 51% from the field to the Privateers' 25%, won the rebounding battle 53-38, and assisted on 24 baskets against New Orleans' 4. The Privateers also committed 16 turnovers to LSU's 12, fueling the Tigers' transition game. ## Star of the Game Donovan Dent ran the show from start to finish, posting 19 points, 10 assists, and 4 rebounds. The point guard's fingerprints were everywhere — two 26-foot three-pointers, a dunk of his own, and a steady stream of lobs and feeds to Ruzic and Dessert that produced easy finishes all night. His 10 assists accounted for a substantial share of LSU's 24 as a team. He had plenty of help. Michael Ruzic added 17 points and 6 rebounds on a series of dunks, Saliou Niang stuffed the box score with a 14-point, 14-rebound double-double plus 5 assists, and Brice Dessert chipped in 13 points and 7 rebounds. For New Orleans, Yohandry Ortiz led all Privateers with 16 points and 5 rebounds, while Kedrick Osby added 8 points. ## What It Means For the LSU Tigers, this was the kind of comprehensive early-season performance that checks every box: balanced scoring with four players in double figures, dominant interior play, elite ball movement, and a defense that held an opponent to 25% shooting and 14% from three. Reaching 100 points with 24 assists suggests an offense that shares the ball and finishes at the rim, and Dent's playmaking gives LSU a clear engine as the schedule stiffens. For the New Orleans Privateers, the night was a difficult one against a bigger, deeper SEC opponent. Ortiz's 16-point effort was a bright spot, and Singleton and McDonald showed they can stretch defenses from beyond the arc, but cleaning up the 16 turnovers and generating more ball movement — the Privateers managed just 4 assists — will be the priorities going forward. --- *Original article: [SEC Men's Basketball: LSU Tigers Dominates LSU New Orleans Privateers 100-57](https://secscouts.com/news/sec-men-s-basketball-lsu-tigers-dominates-lsu-new-orleans-privateers-100-57) — SEC Scouts*