NCAA Basketball Odds: Tennessee at LSU

Tennessee takes on LSU tonight. (AP Images)

With a difficult stretch of games looming, the Tennessee Volunteers could use a road victory over the LSU Tigers, the conference’s worst team, tonight.

NCAA hoops betting odds have the Vols listed as 7-point favorites.

Sunday's win over Florida kept the Vols within 1 1/2 games of Kentucky in the SEC East, but they play five of their next seven away from home. The stretch features back-to-back road games against No. 18 Vanderbilt on Feb. 9 and the fourth-ranked Wildcats on Feb. 13.

LSU led the SEC West with 74.8 points per game in 2008-09, but is averaging a league-worst 63.5 points this season. The Tigers have averaged 56.7 points on 39.5 percent shooting during their seven-game losing streak.

LSU has not dropped eight in a row since 2008. The Tigers, winners of five of the past eight meetings with Tennessee, beat the Vols 79-73 in Knoxville last Jan. 28.

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