The scoreboard read LSU 90, Alabama 76 when the final seconds ticked off the clock Wednesday night, a ninth-straight win for the Tigers and a seventh to start SEC play.
What Will Wade was happiest about in the moments after the game, however, was just how many wins LSU picked up with a single victory. In the days before the contest, Alabama wasn't the only opponent Wade had on his mind.
They were the primary foe, of course, winners of four straight SEC games coming in and armed with a number of marksmen from the three-point line and the charity stripe.