BATON ROUGE – LSU point guard Tremont Waters was named to the coaches All-Southeastern Conference freshman team announced as part of the league’s awards package on Tuesday.
The league men’s basketball teams begin gathering in St. Louis for first round games Wednesday at the Scottrade Center. LSU, the No. 10 seed, will meet No. 7 seed Mississippi State on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the third second-round game of the day. The game will be telecast by the SEC Network and broadcast on the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network (Eagle 98.1 FM).
Waters was one of eight players named to the freshman squad along with Collin Sexton of Alabama, Daniel Gafford of Arkansas, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Kevin Knox of Kentucky, Nick Weatherspoon of Mississippi State, Jontay Porter of Missouri and TJ Starks of Texas A&M.