BATON ROUGE - LSU is the third seed in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament and will play #14 seed Yale this Thursday in Jacksonville Florida.

The Tigers are a 3 Seed!

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— LSU Basketball (@LSUBasketball) March 17, 2019

If LSU defeats Yale they will then go on to play the winner of #6 seed Maryland and the 11 seed play-in game in Dayton between Belmont and Temple in the second round.

The game will be played at 11:40 a.m. Thursday on TRUTV.

This is the first time that the Tigers are in the NCAA tournament since 2015.