Call it intuition. Or maybe just good scouting.
Whatever the reason, LSU head coach Will Wade had a feeling his team would spend plenty of time at the free throw line Saturday afternoon against South Carolina.
So after practice Friday, Wade corralled his top nine players and made them stick around until each had made 100 free throws.
It didn’t take long.
“We shot those at 92 percent,” Wade said Saturday, following an 89-67 win over the Gamecocks, a win that saw the Tigers join Tennessee as the only teams unbeaten in conference play. “After about a two hour practice and a walk through.