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The LSU men's basketball season officially begins Friday night in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center as the defending SEC champion Tigers host the Bowling Green University Falcons. A strong core from last year's Sweet 16 returns for LSU. Guards Javonte Smart, Skylar Mays and Marlon Taylor and Continue to Article

November 08, 2019 2:00:pm EST

One of the key reasons the LSU basketball team was so successful in the 2018-19 season was rebounding. The Tigers had an obscene amount of length in the front court and LSU finished 31st in total rebounding and 10th overall in offensive rebounding. Thanks to the long wingspans of Naz Reid and Kavell Continue to Article

November 05, 2019 9:00:am EST

Charles Dickens would have felt at home writing about the 2018-19 LSU basketball season. The best of times and the worst of times? One basketball season couldn't hold more wild pendulum swings of emotions, fortunes, tragedy, victory, punishment and redemption than last season did. A season that at Continue to Article

November 02, 2019 1:00:pm EST

Javonte Smart smiled when recalling the first time he played against Trendon Watford. To the best of Smart's recollection, it was about nine years ago in a big youth basketball tournament at the Alario Center in Westwego. “I thought he was so slow when I first saw him dribble … I thought he was a Continue to Article

November 02, 2019 12:48:pm EST

With its season opener fast approaching, the LSU men's basketball team will have its final tuneup against outside competition Saturday afternoon. The Tigers, who face Bowling Green in the regular-season opener next Friday in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, will travel to Ruston on Saturday for Continue to Article

November 01, 2019 3:31:pm EST