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BATON ROUGE, La. — Rueben Chinyelu had a career-high 19 points to go with 13 rebounds and No. 2 Florida roared back from an eight-point second-half deficit to beat LSU 79-65. Thomas Haugh scored 16 points, Alijah Martin added 14 and Walter Clayton Jr. 13 for Florida, which won its sixth straight. LSU freshman Robert Miller III scored a career-high 19 points to go with 10 rebounds and was a big reason the Tigers looked poised to push Florida to the limit well into the second half. Curtis Givens III scored 11 points and Mike Williams III added 10 points for LSU, which had won its previous two games. Florida outscored LSU 44-24 in the paint and outrebounded the Tigers 48-33.
