LSU gets No. 3 seed faces 14 seed Yale
BATON ROUGE -- SEC Champions and third-seeded LSU will face No. 14 seed Yale on Thursday in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament held in Jacksonville's VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, it was announced on Selection Sunday.
Game time is 11:40 am CST and will be televised on TruTV.
The winner advances to face either No. 6 seed Maryland or the winner of the opening-round game between Belmont and Temple in the third round of the 68-team tournament on Saturday.
LSU (26-6) won the 2019 Southeastern Conference Regular-Season Championship -- its first since 2009 -- with a 16-2 record. The Tigers earned a berth into the "Big Dance" for the 22nd time in program history and the first since 2015. LSU, which has a 24-24 record in tournament play, has reached the Final Four four times in school history, 1953, 1981, 1986 and 2006.