BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s basketball team has earned a spot in the 40-team National Invitation Tournament and will travel to Norman, Okla., to face the University of Oklahoma in a nationally-televised first-round game on Wednesday night.
LSU and Oklahoma will play at the Loyd Noble Center at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN. The game will be carried on radio in Louisiana on the LSU Sports Network.
The Tigers are 18-10 on the season and 8-8 in the SEC Western Division, earning the second seed in the division.
The winner of the LSU-Oklahoma game would play the winner of Tuesday’s Michigan-Missouri contest either March 20, 22 or 23. The Tigers are one of three SEC teams in the NIT. Tennessee will also play on Wednesday night at George Mason in an opening-round game and Georgia will play at Iowa State in a first-round game.
LSU’s last appearance in the NIT came in 2002 and LSU opened the tournament that year with a nationally televised road win in Iowa City against the Iowa Hawkeyes.