Will Wade addresses how he's handling locker room during losing streak

LSU men’s basketball was sitting pretty high at this point a month ago. After a 64-58 win at Florida on Jan. 12, the Tigers were 15-1 overall with a 3-1 mark in SEC play and looked to be a team that could not only compete for a SEC title, but make a run in the NCAA Tournament.

Fast forward to now – just one month later – and LSU’s train has fallen off the tracks. Since that Jan. 12 win over Florida, the Tigers have lost six of their last seven games – including three straight – and now sit at 16-7 overall and 4-6 in league play.

LSU reached its lowest point of the season yet on Saturday, as the then-No. 25 ranked Tigers suffered a 75-66 loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville. The Tigers dug themselves into a 43-25 hole at halftime and could never get back into it.

Following Saturday’s loss, LSU head coach Will Wade met with the media on Monday and offered his thoughts on the Tigers’ losing streak.

“You’ve gotta battle up,” Wade said of what his message is to the locker room. “Things come at you. It’s been a pretty good run here for a while. We hadn’t had a lot of adversity, and that’s why you build your program for times like this, for moments like this. You’ve gotta battle your way through it. Nobody’s going to help you through it, nobody’s going to give you anything to get through it. … You’ve got to work. You’ve gotta double down on attention to detail. Double down on the discipline. You’ve got to go to work and be sharp with what you’re doing.

“You know, we’re not feeling sorry for ourselves. We’ve done it to ourselves. We have nobody to blame but ourselves – and we’re the only ones that can get us out of it. We’ve gotta not hope it’s going to happen; we’ve got to make it happen. Sometimes you’ve gotta hit rock bottom before you can move forward. Hopefully we don’t get any further down than this.”

LSU will look to snap its losing streak Tuesday as it takes on Texas A&M in College Station. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.