BATON ROUGE – Head Coach Johnny Jones will blow the whistle shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday to begin the countdown for the start of the 2016-17 men’s basketball season.
For Coach Jones it is the start of his fifth season as head coach at LSU and he will put the team through the allowable 30 practices prior to the team’s season opener on Nov. 12 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center against Wofford. It will be the first of three games in seven days prior to the team’s Thanksgiving trip to the Bahamas for the Battle for Atlantis.