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.

LSU basketball earned the commitment of a four-star recruit described as one of the most athletic players in the 2026 class.

When does LSU women's basketball play its first game of the 2025-26 season? Here's when Mulkey and the Tigers will take the floor.

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU women’s basketball will return to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Thursday when the Tigers host Mississippi College at 7 p.m. CT for the program’s first of two exhibition games prior to the 2025-26 regular season.

Senior Flau'jae Johnson was voted onto the SEC's preseason first team, and junior Mikaylah Williams was given a spot on the second team. Voters chose South Carolina and Texas to finish ahead of the Tigers, who are beginning their fifth year under coach Kim Mulkey .

The LSU men’s basketball team will conduct an open practice Monday (Oct. 13) from 4-6 p.m. on the main floor of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. There will be free pizza for the first 200 fans at the event.

MiLaysia Fulwiley has yet to discuss her decision at length. So far, she's talked about it only once publicly — in a brief offseason appearance on a Sports Illustrated podcast.

WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood takes you inside the Performance Nutrition Center. In here you’ll find the Weeks Brother, West, Whit and Zach. They’re fueling up for football. Almost 500 LSU athletes get breakfast, lunch and dinner here at the Performance Nutrition Center.