BATON ROUGE - The LSU men's basketball team dominated the LA Tech Bulldogs 90-50 on Monday night in the Maravich Center behind some even scoring and suffocating defense.

The Tigers turned the Bulldogs over 23 times in the game that led to 38 points and four different LSU players scored in double-figures led by Michael Ruzic's 18 points.

The Bulldogs scored the first bucket of the game but after that LSU took the lead and never trailed again leading by 27 at the half.  The Tigers scored 47 in the first half and 43 in the second as Will Wade emptied his bench and no LSU player logged more than 30 minutes.

"I thought we played a little bit better," Wade said of his teams effort. "We have about three areas we want to improve in. Turnovers are about the same; we got sloppy at the end of the game and turned the ball over 14 times, that's way too many. Rebounding was just okay; We gave up 38 percent offensive rebounding rate to them and a 62 percent defensive rebounding rate for us. That's not going to get it done. We're going to have to be 70 plus on Saturday to win that. We were 38 percent on the offensive glass. 37 and a half percent, we're going to have to be better there; we're going to have to be 40 plus to win on Saturday. I thought our free throw shooting was improved. Our three-point shooting was a little bit improved. So that was the positives, but we're going to need to be much better."

LSU improves to 3-0 on the season and will be back in action on Saturday afternoon as they travel to Spokane, Washington to take on Gonzaga for the first real test of the season.

"We're getting out of the little kiddie pool, with our floaters on, and going into the deep end," Wade said of the upcoming game. "We're going to have to be much improved on Saturday."