Men's Basketball

BATON ROUGE – The contracts have been received and posted for LSU's non-conference schedule for the 2018-19 men's basketball season and the Tigers will face a schedule in which they face a minimum of five teams that played in the post-season and six teams that won at least 21 games this past year.

BATON ROUGE – The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday announced the home and away opponents for the LSU men's basketball team during the 2018-19 conference schedule.

BATON ROUGE – LSU Basketball Coach Will Wade put the final touches on a top three nationally-ranked recruiting class on Thursday with the acceptance of Southeastern Conference and institutional scholarship paperwork by LSU Compliance for 6-1 combo guard Danya Kingsby and 6-9 forward Courtese Cooper.

BATON ROUGE – Former LSU national Freshman of the Year Ben Simmons, now of the Philadelphia 76ers, was one of two players unanimously selected to the 2017-18 NBA All-Rookie First Team after receiving first-place votes on all 100 ballots from a global panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

BATON ROUGE – Sixty-two student-athletes will receive LSU degrees, as the University will hold spring commencement ceremonies at various venues across campus on Friday and Saturday.

BATON ROUGE – Ray Lewis, a three-year letterwinner on LSU's men's basketball team in the early 1960s, passed away recently at his home in Charlestown, Indiana, at the age of 78.