BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Tremont Waters earned Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors and Skylar Mays was named the league’s scholar-athlete on the Southeastern Conference coaches All-SEC selections announced on Tuesday.

The atmosphere at the PMAC on Saturday night was nothing ordinary. There were chants and signs in support of the indefinitely suspended head basketball coach. There were chants and signs delivering major criticism of the Director of Athletics.

LSU stopped Florida on three straight possessions in the final two minutes of overtime to come away with a 79-78 Southeastern Conference victory at the O’Connell Center in Gainesville on Wednesday night.

LSU’s task against Southeastern Conference-leading Tennessee became quite apparent to the fans filing into the PMAC on Saturday morning.

Tremont Waters was headed for Georgetown until John Thompson III was fired. New LSU coach Will Wade knew about Waters from his time at VCU. Wade also realized that Waters could solve his problems at point guard. Wade signed Waters, a top-100 player.

There was one crucial possession which the Tigers would certainly love to have back. An Adrio Bailey jumper was blocked by Marlon Taylor and Tremont Waters grabbed the rebound. LSU had the ball and a one-point lead with 45 seconds remaining in the game.

Tremont Waters scored a season-high 36 points to carry LSU to a 72-57 Southeastern Conference victory against Texas A&M at Reed Arena in College Station on Wednesday night.

Tremont Waters scored a season-high 26 points as LSU moved to 5-0 in the Southeastern Conference by defeating Georgia 92-82 at the PMAC on Wednesday night.

Tremont Waters scored 20 points and handed out nine assists and Kavell-Bigby Williams recorded a double-double as LSU defeated Ole Miss 83-69 in a Southeastern Conference game at The Pavilion in Oxford on Tuesday night.

Tremont Waters scored 20 points and handed out seven assists and Kavell Bigby-Williams recorded a double-double with ten points and ten rebounds as LSU defeated previously unbeaten Furman 75-57 in a non-conference game at the PMAC on Friday night.

LSU gets a chance to defeat another ranked team – this time at home. The Tigers play host to 12-0 Furman at the PMAC on Friday (7 p.m. Central/SEC Digital Network). LSU desperately needs a victory to give a boost to their non-conference body of work.

Tremont Waters scored 18 points as LSU held on for a 78-74 victory against Saint Mary’s in a non-conference game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

LSU’s last two games provided the opportunity for coach Will Wade to develop his team against outmanned competition. However, the Tigers’ two games away from the PMAC this week are not similar. First up is...

Success against the top teams in the SEC will not occur unless LSU's two best players perform up to their standard.

Prior to the start of the season, LSU coach Will Wade said that this year’s team will have a balanced attack. That assessment has proven to be correct in Tigers victories against Southeastern Louisiana and North Carolina-Greensboro.

Naz Reid scored 29 points and Tremont Waters had 21 points and 10 assists as LSU defeated North Carolina-Greensboro 97-91 in a non-conference game at the PMAC on Friday night.

Tremont Waters and Skylar Mays were the heart and soul of Will Wade’s first team as LSU basketball coach. Waters was one of the best freshman point guards in the country – averaging 16 points and six assists per game. Mays, a former point guard, shifted to a wing position to accommodate Waters.