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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Justin Hamilton exploded for 18 of his career-high 27 points during the second half, but the LSU's men's basketball team fell 76-64 on the road to No. 14 Florida Saturday at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.

LSU (12-7, 2-3 SEC) dropped its third straight decision to Florida (15-4, 3-1 SEC). In the process, the Gators also won their 16th straight home game.

For Hamilton, he eclipsed the 20-point plateau for the fourth time in his last six outings. He buried 13 of his 22 shots and became the first LSU player to pour in more than 25 points since Bo Spencer at Auburn during the 2009-10 campaign. The Alpine, Utah native also hauled in a team-best eight rebounds.

Anthony Hickey tallied 10 points, three rebounds and two assists in 23 minutes before fouling out. Ralston Turner and Eddie Ludwig chipped in eight and seven points, respectively. The seven points for Ludwig was his highest effort since the Grambling game on December 29.

The Gators went 27-of-48 en route to a crisp 56.3 shooting clip and had five players garner double figures highlighted by Erik Murphy's 15 points on 6-of-7 from the floor. Erving Walker added 12 points and three assists. The trio of Bradley Beal, Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario banged in 11 points apiece.  

LSU came out clicking on all cylinders in the game's opening moments and knocked down three of its first four attempts. The Tigers raced ahead 8-2 at the 17:47 mark of the first half behind a pair of three-pointers from Hickey and Stringer sandwiched between a Warren dunk.

Florida fired back with eight of the next 10 points over the next 3:08 to knot the score at 10-10. The spurt was capped by three consecutive Patric Young jumpers.

Ahead 20-16 with 8:48 remaining, the Gators took advantage of LSU being in foul trouble. The Tigers played the reminder of the opening half without starters Hickey, Turner and Warren. The trio each picked up two fouls. 

Florida stretched its lead to 38-26 at intermission and converted on 14-of-22 from the field. The Gators used a balanced attack as five different players collected six or more points paced by Beal's nine. 

UF pulled out to its largest lead, 48-32 with 13:38 left, after Rosario canned consecutive triples from the right baseline and the top of the key.

LSU chipped away at the deficit and fought back to within 58-50 at the 7:45 mark. The Tigers broke down the Florida full court pressure as Hickey found Ludwig on a 75-foot pass for a three-point play, Hamilton powered home a dunk and Hickey buried a transition three-ball from the right wing.  

LSU kept the contest in single digits until the final 72 seconds of regulation. A Boynton jumper and a Walker free throw closed out the 76-64 Florida victory. 

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BATON ROUGE -- Four Arkansas players scored in double-figures and the Razorbacks took advantage of 27 LSU turnovers as the Lady Tigers, playing without two starters due to injury, dropped their third straight game, 72-52, in front of 6,161 fans on Sunday afternoon in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

LSU (13-6, 4-3 SEC) fell into a tie with South Carolina for fourth place in the conference standings with nine games left on the schedule. The Lady Tigers were playing without senior point guard Destini Hughes and sophomore guard Jeanne Kenney. Both sustained injuries in Thursday's loss at Tennessee. Hughes is out for the season with a torn ACL and MCL and Kenney was recovering from a concussion.

Arkansas (14-5, 3-4) won its third straight game and its second consecutive by double-digit fashion against a quality conference foe. The Razorbacks, who crushed Vanderbilt on Thursday, defeated LSU for the third consecutive time. Arkansas swept the season series last season and rode a 47.5 percent shooting effort, including 8-of-11 from three-point range, for the win. LSU came into the contest with the nation's fourth-best field goal percentage defense.

"I give a lot of credit to Arkansas for really sticking to their game plan of defensively coming in and disrupting us and forcing us into 27 turnovers," said LSU head coach Nikki Caldwell. "I thought that was a very telling statistic in the outcome of this game, because with those turnovers they were able to convert about 30 points."

Courtney Jones led LSU with 14 points - her third straight double-figure game - and a game-high seven rebounds with three steals. Adrienne Webb chipped in 11 points and buried a three to tie Allison Hightower for seventh place in LSU career threes with 108.

Arkansas' Lyndsay Harris scored a game-high 17 points and buried 4-of-7 from beyond the arc. Ashley Daniels contributed 10 points and Dominique Robinson and C'eira Ricketts had 10 points apiece. The Razorbacks scored 29 points off turnovers and took complete control of the game in the final seven minutes of the first half.

LSU held a 17-11 lead following Sheila Boykin's layup with 11:06 to go in the stanza, but the Lady Tigers went the final 11 minutes with only two made field goals. Robinson's three culminated an 11-0 Arkansas run at the 6:28 mark and the deficit grew to double digits on back-to-back threes with just under three minutes to go. The Razorbacks led comfortably, 38-22, at the half.

The three-point barrage continued in the first 20 seconds of the second half when Harris knocked down another. Arkansas held its largest lead, 54-29, on Daniels' jumper with 13:04 left in the game. The Lady Tigers got the deficit to within 14 points following a three from Webb and a bucket from LaSondra Barrett, but it came in the final two minutes.

LSU out-rebounded Arkansas, 32-25, and the Lady Tigers finished at 45.7 percent shooting for the game.

"We were not in a comfortable role as far as bringing the ball down the floor, or playing 12 or 15 feet from the basket," said Caldwell. "I also felt that we didn't play. Our mindset changed. For the whole second half of the Tennessee game, we played with a big lineup. I asked them what changed, and the majority of the response was that their mindset and attitude toward that game changed."