By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• December 9, 2023
Good teams can take a punch in the mouth and get back up.
Lately, LSU men's basketball hasn’t done that.
In an earlier loss to Syracuse, the Tigers competed closely throughout the first half and were...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 28, 2023
When a star gets going, it’s a thing of beauty.
It’s like no one else is there; nothing the defense throws at them fazes them, no amount of defenders in their face.
LSU, though, wishes it wasn’t...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 19, 2023
If nothing else, LSU will come out of the Charleston Classic battle-tested.
In three games against Dayton, North Texas and Wake Forest, the Tigers found themselves in one-possession games in the final...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 17, 2023
Size is the biggest advantage LSU men's basketball will have on most nights, as it did against North Texas.
Between 7-foot Will Baker and 6-foot-10 Derek Fountain, the Tigers attacked the paint on offense...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 16, 2023
For the second straight game, LSU men's basketball watched as another team hit a game-winning 3-pointer with four seconds or fewer on the clock.
Dayton’s Nate Santos made the decisive shot from distance...
A young Mwani Wilkinson looked on from the sidelines.
He was just seconds away from winning an SEC Championship when his veteran teammate Trendon Watford dribbled the ball toward the top of the key....
An angry Matt McMahon slammed his hand on the press room table in frustration.
“I apologize to everyone who came tonight,” he said to open his postgame press conference.
Despite coming...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 6, 2023
In its first real game action since a disappointing 14-19 year, LSU opened its season Monday with a 106-60 win over Mississippi Valley State in the Pete Assembly Maravich Center.
It was a dominant wire-to-wire...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 1, 2023
The LSU men’s basketball program announced in a statement Wednesday that the NCAA ruled transfer Jalen Cook ineligible to play for the Tigers this season.
Under NCAA rules, Cook’s status as a two-time...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 30, 2023
LSU fans got their first glimpse at this year’s men’s basketball team, led by second-year head coach Matt McMahon, when it hosted Louisiana Christian for an exhibition match in the Pete Maravich Center...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 27, 2023
In March 2022, new head coach Matt McMahon inherited an LSU roster with zero returning scholarship players, victim of a transfer exodus following the mass recruiting violations that led to former head...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 23, 2023
After a disappointing 14-19 season, LSU men's basketball fell victim to yet another transfer exodus, forcing the team to piece together its lineup through the transfer portal. However, the Tigers’ five...
