LSU basketball released it’s 2025-26 non-conference schedule

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The stretch from November 28-December 13 will be fairly telling, but the season ticket holders get the shaft yet again. This is the worst home non-conference schedule in a while. Omaha is the "best" home game.

Thats a pretty easy OOC outside of Texas Tech.

BC and GT are expected to be towards the bottom of the ACC. SMU is considered about where we are going into this season (mid-tier-ish). Depaul is bottom tier Big East. Havent seen an MVC write up on where Drake might stand, they obviously had a great year last year but new coach, new team this year.

I see 5 solid opponents out of 13 games. None at home though

SMU somewhat of a home game since it’s a double header in Nola

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SMU somewhat of a home game since it’s a double header in Nola

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They are using the women to sell tickets and avoid embarrassment of an empty arena.

no one came to big games last year. this way we get some wins.

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Confirmation that LSU will be perfectly ok having <2000 people at the pmac in Nov & Dec, then will make tickets to SEC games cost too much for any casual fans to want to come.

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If nobody watches, nobody complains! Maybe we can keep McMahon through his whole contract.

EVERY major conf. program is going to play multiple weak mid-major programs in the OOC schedule. The problem is McMahon has generally scheduled the worst of the worst mid-major programs. If you are in the SEC you're likely to play a SWAC team...but you can't play two! You're also going to get at least 1 or 2 weak instate opponents. But you can't play the worst of that limited group (UNO this year). Doing so leaves you very little room for error ahead of SEC play. Combine that with what looks to be a crappy Thanksgiving tournament, that means LSU has to go no worse than 3-2 vs. Drake, DePaul/Geogia Tech, BC, SMU, Texas Tech to even give themselves a chance to build a tournament resume in SEC play. Even that might not be enough if Texas Tech isn't one of those wns.

To illustrate:

Oklahoma was 6-12 in the SEC last year. That was only 3 wins better than LSU. Yet, OU made the NCAAT as a 9 seed while LSU wasn't even in strong consideration for the NIT. Those 3 extra SEC wins weren't the big difference for OU. It was beating Arizona, Michigan and Louisville (all at neutral sites). LSU went 11-2 in non-conf. play. But none of those 11 wins were against anyone worth a damn. You have to play and BEAT good teams outside of your conf. McMahon rarely puts LSU in a spot to do so.

To me, this just looks a lot like the 16-17 season (Jones' final year). A wasted year to get to the inevitable conclusion that was known at the end of the prior season. The dwindling excuse makers are holding on to ANYTHING they can to attribute the poor results of the last 3 years to anything but McMahon simply being a poor major conf. HC. This schedule is going to ensure very few will even recognize it is basketball season until January.

Upper deck tickets for the SMU game going for $66 a pop. No thanks.

In this day and age they choose not to edit the face of LSU women’s basketball on that poster….