LSU Basketball Heads to the SEC Tournament with Plans to ‘Shock People’

LSU basketball heads to the SEC tournament with plans to ‘shock people’

Coach Matt McMahon’s No. 16-seeded LSU will face No. 9 Kentucky on Wednesday in the first round of the SEC Tournament. Learn why a player said the Tigers are “going to shock people” in Nashville, Tennessee.

Kentucky Wildcats play in SEC Tournament against the LSU Tigers

The Kentucky Wildcats take on the LSU Tigers in the SEC Tournament. Wednesday's meeting will be the second of the season between the two teams. Kentucky is 10-8 against the SEC, and LSU is 3-15 against the SEC.

Kentucky Declines Practice Time at Bridgestone Arena Before SEC Tournament

The Kentucky Wildcats opted to decline their scheduled practice time at Bridgestone Arena ahead of Wednesday’s SEC Tournament opener against LSU. “We just wanted to reproduce the schedule of the day as best we could. So, we couldn’t do that with our slotted time there,” Mark Pope explained during his media availability today. “And so this is — it also recreates our normal travel schedule. So we’re just trying to have our day before the game be a…

Kentucky’s Path in the SEC Tournament, Building Momentum When it Matters

March is a time where college basketball teams can get scorching hot en route to postseason success, while others hang on by a thread in hopes they don’t get embarrassed. Kentucky basketball, unfortunately, is in the unpredictable medium of both of these categories, having won eight out of nine games in the middle of the season, which had the Wildcats as one of the top SEC teams, from losing five out of the last seven games. Is Mark Pope’s squad…

PREVIEW: Kentucky men’s basketball begins 2026 SEC Tournament run against LSU

Kentucky men’s basketball (19-12, 10-8 SEC) closed its regular season with an 84-77 loss to the red-hot No. 5 Florida Gators (25-6, 16-2 SEC), dropping five of its last seven games heading into the postseason. The Wildcats now look ahead to the SEC Tournament in Nashville, where they have historical success, leading the conference in SEC Tournament Championships with 32. Their most recent SEC Tournament Championship came in 2018. Due to its late…