LSU basketball team officially set to play Kansas State in PMAC in December

Matt McMahon has moved closer to finishing his nonconference schedule for the upcoming season.

Home games with Kansas State, Nicholls State and North Florida are the latest to be officially added to the 13-game slate that will lead up to the 18-game Southeastern Conference schedule in early January.

The Kansas State matchup, which is set for Dec. 9 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, is part of a home-and-home series with the Wildcats.

LSU will visit Manhattan, Kansas, in the 2024-25 season on a date to be determined to complete the home-and-home,

The Tigers and Wildcats met in the championship game of the Cayman Islands Classic last Nov. 23 with K-State taking a 61-59 victory after a controversial ending.

Officials waved off an apparent game-tying field goal by LSU, ruling it came after the clock — which didn’t start when the ball was inbounded — should have expired.

Kansas State went on to finish 26-10, reaching the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament.

In addition to the Kansas State game, McMahon’s team will face Nicholls State on Nov. 10 and North Florida on Nov. 24, according to game contracts.

Last week, LSU learned who they could face in the eight-team Charleston Classic, which will be played Nov. 16-17 and 19 in TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Tigers will be joined by Houston, Wake Forest, St. John’s, Utah, Dayton, North Texas and Towson in a true bracketed event. First-round matchups and brackets will be announced this summer.

It was previously reported that LSU will play Texas on Dec. 16 in Houston’s Toyota Center and host Lamar on Dec. 21 and Northwestern State on Dec. 29.

The Tigers will also play in the first ACC/SEC Challenge this fall. Dates, matchups and sites will also be announced in the next two months.

That leaves McMahon with three games to fill his nonconference slate.

LSU schedule

Nov. 10: Nicholls

Nov. 16-17, 19: at Charleston Classic

(LSU, Houston, Wake Forest, St. John’s, Utah, Dayton, North Texas, Towson)

Nov. 24: North Florida

Dec. 9: Kansas State

Dec. 16: vs. Texas

(at Houston, Toyota Center)

Dec. 21: vs. Lamar

Dec. 29: Northwestern State