Freshman center Efton Reid scored 14 points on 7-of-8 shooting while senior Darius Days added 12 and Eric Gaines had 11 points as did Alex Fudge, who also had nine rebounds.
Reid got LSU started with a bucket and off a Wake miss, Eason hit a jumper to cut the deficit to 11-10.
Wake Forest out rebounds LSU, 34-33, but the Tigers had a 44-22 advantage on points in the paint.
We haven’t won one of these in over 15 years, so that was huge for us.
We have to finish it off on Wednesday and finish up our first portion of our non-conference schedule, so we’ll get back to work on Monday.
We’ve got fans that come to all these tournaments and spend their hard-earned money and we need to pay them back by winning some of these.