re: Full LSU (Men's) Basketball Schedule has been announced

The thing about Wade’s schedule was he was great at manipulating the NET. So games like Belmont, Liberty, Furman, St. Louis. At the end of the year these ended up being quad 1or 2 games and made a big impact on the NET

He stayed at McNeese bc nobody else is willing to touch him yet. He will never be the coach at LSU again. Give it up

You clowns can’t help yourself in ANY thread about LSU basketball

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I think 14-17 wins is what I see this team getting

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Says the guy who wants WW to come back

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Man, home OOC schedule still sucks - we play Fla. St. at home only because it's part of the SEC/ACC challenge.

As a long time season ticket holder I really wish there would be some effort to improve in this regard:

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I do too, but I think it's just the nature of college basketball now. Similar to football, power conf. teams will play each other. But they'll prefer to do so at neutral sites because (1) both teams get nice paydays for the game (not just the home team) and there's more "credit" for a neutral site win than a home win and less "downside: for a neutral site loss. Unfortunately, LSU is not alone in this. Alabama routinely plays one of, if not the toughest schedules in the country, and if you look at this year's schedule outside of the ACC/SEC game (which is @ UNC) the only power conf. opponent they play at home is Creighton as part of a home and home. Though they will also play Illinois in Birmingham as a "neutral" site game.

LSU played a power conf opponent last year at home in Kansas St. That was probably the first power conf. opponent LSU played (that wasn't part of some "challenge"...Big 12/SEC) in nearly a decade. Unfortunately, this year LSU makes the return trip as part of the home-and-home.

I've LONG said LSU basketball misses a chance to capture an audience in that December lull between the end of football season and a bowl game by not scheduling a big name opponent at home (like they used to routinely do). Most casual fans don't even look at a basketball game until SEC play in January. But I guess that is just the way of the world, for the most part, in basketball today.

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Wheels have been in motion on this behind the scenes for over a year.

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Don't play with me. Is this real info or are you just being hopeful?

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the dozen or so of us that do care about basketball

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Which is precisely why I think he stayed a second year at McNeese.

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He still has a show cause through this season, thats the primary reason nobody really touched him this offseason. He has a lot of recruiting restrictions that ran through this year. They all go away after the 2024-2025 season.

LINK .

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-No off-campus recruiting related activities during any applicable April or summer evaluation and/or contact period
-Reduction in official visits by four each during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years
-No recruiting conversations between Sept. 1, 2023, and Oct. 15, 2023, and Sept. 1, 2024, and Oct. 15, 2024
-No unofficial visits from Sept. 1, 2023, through Oct. 15, 2023, and Sept. 1, 2024, and Oct. 15, 2024
-Suspension from the first 10 contests of the first season of any Division I employment, which shall not include exhibitions or practice scrimmages

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I’m sorry I triggered you Jimothy.

We’re literally just talking about the basketball schedule & y’all cant help bringing up WW. You have issues

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I agree with this. I was not expecting the rest of the world to see LSU in the top half of the league, but dead last was surprising.

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I'm never one to defend McMahon, but pre-season basketball predictions will be as off as they ever have been in the portal era. Literally entire teams are built out in the offseason sometimes from the portal. Nobody really knows how these extremely re-tooled teams from the portal will actually turn out. It's not like the older days where you got to see younger players actualy at the school they are play some before trying to predict what they will look like as a team with them as a starter. Now they have to figure out if the formr 5-star 6'10 PF at Kentucky who didnt play for 2 years behind extreme talent in front of him is better or worse than a mid-major 6'7 PF who wasnt much first year or two of his career at Cal St Northridge but started his 3rd year and averaged 15 points/9 boards all at now a power conference school for each of them.

It's not easy to do.