RUSTON, La. (AP) - Louisiana Tech jumped to a 12-point, halftime lead and pulled away from Arkansas-Little Rock for a 70-52 victory on Wednesday night.
Cordarius Johnson led the Bulldogs (1-1) with 17 points, and Brandon Gibson scored 10. In all, 10 Bulldogs scored points, and all 15 on the roster played on a night of liberal substitution.
Ben Dillard scored 17 for Arkansas-Little Rock (1-1), and Taggart Lockhart had 10 points and 8 rebounds.
The Bulldogs opened a 10-1 advantage and led 23-6 in the first half. The closes to Trojans got in the second half was nine points at 38-29 with 13:04 to go.
Louisiana Tech, which is 23-0 in non-conference games in the past five seasons, lost to Texas A&M 71-59 in its opener.
Spanning the past five seasons, the Bulldogs are 23-0 in non-conference home games.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Arkansas-Little Rock (1-1) | 20 | 32 | 52 |
| Louisiana Tech (1-1) « | 32 | 38 | 70 |
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| Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Lockhart, F | 26 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| M. Javes, F | 25 | 3-11 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| W. Neighbour, F | 17 | 2-7 | 2-4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| B. Dillard, G | 23 | 4-7 | 2-3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| J. Hagins, G | 23 | 1-7 | 2-2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Gillon | 21 | 2-5 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| J. White | 21 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| S. Billings | 13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| L. Isler | 13 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| K. osse | 7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. Wilmath | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Poulter | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Crass | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 17-56 | 14-19 | 43 | 8 | 25 | 52 | |
| 30.4% | 73.7% | ||||||
| Louisiana Tech Bulldogs | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Kyser, F | 19 | 2-4 | 3-4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| B. Gibson, G | 28 | 2-10 | 5-7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| R. Appleby, G | 25 | 2-11 | 3-4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| K. Smith, G | 24 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| C. Johnson, G | 21 | 7-11 | 1-3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Johnson | 24 | 1-5 | 3-5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| A. Hamilton | 19 | 1-4 | 3-4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| K. McNeail | 15 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| I. Massey | 9 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| J. Lewis | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| G. Talbot | 6 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| C. Anderson | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Gjuroski | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Johnson | 1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Wilkerson | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 22-61 | 22-31 | 38 | 11 | 17 | 70 | |
| 36.1% | 71% | ||||||
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