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LSU Hoops Picked Sixth In SEC; Waters 1st-Team SEC

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – The LSU men’s basketball team is picked sixth in the 2019 Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship poll in voting by a select panel of both SEC and national media members.

The poll was released at the start of SEC Tipoff19 at the Grand Bohemian Hotel Mountain Brook in Birmingham on Wednesday. LSU appears before the gathered media beginning at 2:40 p.m. CT this afternoon. The event is being televised live on the SEC Network.

The Kentucky Wildcats are the overall preseason choice for the 14th time since the 1998-99 season.

Points were compiled on a 14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.