LSU basketball faced its first setback after a remarkable start to the season.

Coach Matt McMahon’s team was thoroughly outplayed in its 82-58 loss to No. 19 Texas Tech (7-2) on Sunday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, in the Coast 2 Coast Challenge. The fourth-year coach said LSU (8-1) was overwhelmed from the 3-point line, which was the difference in the game.

The Tigers went 4 of 24 from beyond the arc, and Texas Tech was 13 of 27, making nine in the first half. The putrid 3-point shooting is a second straight occurrence for LSU, which went 3 of 19 in a 78-69 overtime win at Boston College on Wednesday.

“It's concerning,” McMahon said on the LSU sports radio network. “You come off the second half where we struggled to make shots on the road at Boston College … then you come o

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