LSU Tigers Basketball Team Website Finally Updates Roster To 10 Players

The LSU Tigers Men's Basketball team's online roster has been one of the biggest talking points of the entire offseason, as for months it had only shown just four players on it while Will Wade figured out the eligibility of the rest of the players.

That roster has finally been updated, now showing 10 players. There is a difference from the 10-man roster he rolled out in the first exhibition as well. Here is the current public Tigers roster:

No. 0 G Luke Stansbury
No. 1 G Abdi Bashir Jr.
No. 2 G Austin Nunez
No. 3 G Donovan Dent
No. 4 G Bradley Fife
No. 5 F Jordan Bender
No. 10 F Mo Dioubate
No. 22 C Strake Pearson
No. 32 C Michael Ruzic
No. 99 G Divine Ugochukwu

While it is good to see the team making progress in terms of who is going to be ready to play, and it does look better visually, this roster won't be sustainable for the season. They are going to have to hope for better luck moving forward in getting players eligible. Ruzic was a big win, and they're going to need to follow suit with more.

The big change from the previous exhibition is that now Nunez is back on the roster and Skyy Clark is off it. Nunez was seen in a walking boot when the team played and Clark was on the printed roster, but didn't play in the game.

Wade said after the game that the team is being very cautious and still has some final paperwork to get through with some players who have not yet played. Clark, Saliou Niang, Brice Dessert and Gilad Levy were all with the team but did not touch the court.

Because of those four players being out, LSU really only played five players in that game. Nunez, Bashir, Dent, Dioubate, Ruzic and Ugochukwu are the only names from the above roster that the team is counting on playing real minutes this year.

Bender and Pearson saw the floor for a couple of minutes to spell players who needed some sort of break, but each starter played at least 34 minutes. Three of them played at least 38 of 40 minutes. Stansbury and Fife are eligible, but still didn't play.

The Tigers have another exhibition on Wednesday night against the UCF Golden Knights. Wade had said he believed they would have more players ready for that game. Almost time to see if that will come to fruition.