This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/lsu as NBA Opening Night: LSU Basketball To Have Six Former Tigers on Rosters to Open Year. BATON ROUGE – Six former members of the LSU men’s basketball team are on rosters as the 2025-26 National Basketball Association begins play on Tuesday night.

Eason was selected by the Rockets with the 17th pick in the 2022 Draft and he had his best season a year ago averaging 12.1 points in 56 games. Media reports on Sunday said that the Rockets hoped to complete a contract extension past the 2025-26 season for Eason by Monday night’s deadline.

LSU men’s basketball is predicted to finish 15th in the Southeastern Conference for the 2025-26 season in the league's preseason media poll released on Monday. Fourth-year coach Matt McMahon has an almost entirely new group with only two returning players: redshirt junior forward Jalen Reed and sophomore forward Robert Miller.

The SEC/ACC Challenge games will all be televised on December 3 and 4 including LSU’s trip to Duke. In addition, the We Back Pat Week games will be held from January 11-18. LSU will host Texas at 2 p.m. CT on Jan. 11.

LSU basketball is looking to improve in the 2025-26 season, and the Tigers will need a strong showing in conference play to do so. The 18-game SEC slate will feature all 15 other conference schools, with LSU playing nine games on the road and nine at home.

Fresh off the program's third consecutive trip to the Elite Eight, LSU women's basketball will need another strong regular season as the Tigers try to win their second national title in four years. LSU announced its 2025-26 schedule on Tuesday morning ...

Kim Mulkey, the four-time national championship head coach, has lined up the LSU women's basketball team to compete against four HBCU programs from the SWAC, MEAC, and NAIA, creating a great milestone for the school! This season, the Lady Tigers will face ...