FAYETTEVILLE - For the first time this SEC season Arkansas never reduced a deficit.

It wasn’t required. Coach John Pelphrey’s best in the SEC West Razorbacks led start to finish smashing last-place LSU, 87-52 in Wednesday night’s SEC game before 13,127 at Walton Arena.

Arkansas, 13-11 overall, won its fifth straight SEC game enhancing its first-place SEC West record to 6-3 going into Saturday’s SEC West game at Alabama.

Second-year coach Trent Johnson’s Tigers, last year’s West champions but with the gist of that team now playing professionally in the NBA or...