BATON ROUGE,La Johnny O’Bryant III, the junior forward will be remembered at LSU for leading the Tigers to an upset of No. 11 Kentucky. O’Bryant scored 29 points and grabbed nine rebounds, and LSU surprisingly led wire-to-wire in an 87-82 victory Tuesday night.

The 6-foot-9, 256-pound O’Bryant said. “I knew that they were young guys and I had an advantage in experience and body-wise. I was going at them all night.”

Jordan Mickey scored 14 points and blocked five shots for LSU (13-6, 4-3 SEC), which put on a show for an estimated 6,000-plus fans who made it to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. LSU blocked 11 shots and helped force 13 Kentucky turnovers.

“We needed this game really bad,” Mickey said. “Our crowd was great to come out in this type of weather. They brought a lot of energy to the team.” Shavon Coleman added 14 points for the Tigers, who outshot the Wildcats 51 percent.

James Young scored 23 points and Dakari Johnson had 15 for Kentucky (15-5, 5-2), which has seen all five of its losses come away from home, including two straight road losses in the Southeastern Conference.

Although Kentucky’s flight back to Lexington wasn’t scheduled until Wednesday, coach John Calipari couldn’t get out of the arena fast enough. Barely 15 minutes after the game ended, he had already answered a few questions from reporters and hustled his team onto the bus.

“When the other team outworks you, this is what it looks like,” Calipari said. “It was amazing we were in the game. We got down 16; it could have been 30.

According to the ESPN announcers it was very surprisingly as they talk about a Kentucky comeback the whole night. A little word of advice to ESPN announcers don’t root for the away team against LSU, for that matter don’t root for any away team on national ESPN…. Talk about some nerve to talk about Kentucky the whole game and how they are gonna comeback…..lol, nice comeback announcers.