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\nLSU announced the 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule for coach Will Wade’s return to the Tigers. <\/p>\n
\nLSU announced the 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule for coach Will Wade’s return to the Tigers. <\/p>\n
FILE PHOTO: Tiger Rag<\/p>\n
TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICE<\/p>\n
LSU announced its men\u2019s basketball schedule for 2026-27 \u2013 coach Will Wade\u2019s first season back in Baton Rouge. Wade was previously the Tigers\u2019 coach from 2017-22 before being fired for NCAA recruiting violations. He resurfaced as McNeese State\u2019s coach from 2023-24 and 2024-25 before coaching last season at North Carolina State.<\/p>\n
Wade will return to McNeese State on October 8 for an exhibition game in Lake Charles. <\/p>\n
The Tigers open the regular season at home against LSU-New Orleans on November 3. They also host in-state matchups against Louisiana Tech (Nov. 9), Louisiana-Monroe (Nov. 18) and Louisiana-Lafayette (Dec. 22).<\/p>\n
Wade\u2019s squad hits the road for marquee non-conference matchups against Gonzaga in Spokane, Washington (Nov. 14), and at Houston (Dec. 13).<\/p>\n
Wade hopes to finalize his roster in August as it only has five players at the moment.<\/p>\n
Southeastern Conference play tips off Saturday, January 2 as the Tigers welcome South Carolina to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. LSU has three more Saturday conference home games against Tennessee (January 9), Auburn (January 23) and Texas A&M (February 27).<\/p>\n
LSU also hosts Ole Miss Friday, February 5, in the team\u2019s first Friday night regular season SEC matchup since playing Georgia on February, 8, 1991.<\/p>\n
The Tigers play Arkansas and Texas A&M both home and away as the school\u2019s regular double opponents. This year LSU will also face off against Auburn twice.<\/p>\n
Games listed with two dates will be played on either Tuesday or Wednesday nights to be decided by the league and its television partners. The complete schedule with game times and networks are expected to be announced in September.<\/p>\n
2026-27 LSU Men\u2019s Basketball Schedule (Home games in all caps.)<\/p>\n
* SEC Games; Tuesday-Wednesday dates, times\/TV announced in September)<\/p>\n
OCTOBER<\/p>\n
Thurs. 8 At McNeese State (Exhibition)<\/p>\n
Wed. 14 UCF (Exhibition)<\/p>\n
Sat. 24 At Florida State (Exhibition)<\/p>\n
NOVEMBER<\/p>\n
Tues. 3 LSU NEW ORLEANS<\/p>\n
Fri. 6 TEXAS SOUTHERN<\/p>\n
Mon. 9 LOUISIANA TECH<\/p>\n
Sat. 14 vs. Gonzaga (At Spokane, Washington)<\/p>\n
Wed. 18 ULM<\/p>\n
Sat. 21 QUEENS<\/p>\n
Wed. 25 At Acrisure Series (at Palm Springs, California)<\/p>\n
Thurs. 26 At Acrisure Series (at Palm Springs, California)<\/p>\n
DECEMBER<\/p>\n
Tues. 1 WAKE FOREST (SEC\/ACC CHALLENGE)<\/p>\n
Sat. 5 HOFSTRA<\/p>\n
Sun. 13 vs. Houston (at Toyota Center, Houston)<\/p>\n
Fri. 18 HIGH POINT<\/p>\n
Tues. 22 UL-LAFAYETTE<\/p>\n
Mon. 28 WASHINGTON STATE<\/p>\n
JANUARY<\/p>\n
Sat. 2 *SOUTH CAROLINA<\/p>\n
5 or 6 *At Alabama<\/p>\n
Sat. 9 *TENNESSEE<\/p>\n
12 or 13 *At Kentucky<\/p>\n
Sat. 16 *At Texas A&M<\/p>\n
19 or 20 *TEXAS<\/p>\n
Sat. 23 *AUBURN<\/p>\n
26 or 27 *At Arkansas<\/p>\n
Sat. 30 *At Georgia<\/p>\n
FEBRUARY<\/p>\n
2 or 3 *VANDERBILT<\/p>\n
Fri. 5 *OLE MISS<\/p>\n
Sat. 13 *At Oklahoma<\/p>\n
16 or 17 *FLORIDA<\/p>\n
Sat. 20 *At Mississippi State<\/p>\n
23 or 24 *At Auburn<\/p>\n
Sat. 27 *TEXAS A&M<\/p>\n
MARCH\u00a0<\/p>\n
2 or 3 *ARKANSAS<\/p>\n
Sat. 6 *At Missouri<\/p>\n
10-14\/SEC Tournament (Nashville, Tennessee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU announced the 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule for coach Will Wade’s return to the Tigers. FILE PHOTO: Tiger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,4258,86450,4253,13570],"class_list":["post-797170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-mens-basketball","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-will-wade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116992813829589147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}