BATON ROUGE — Season tickets for the upcoming 2008-09 LSU men’s and women’s basketball seasons go on sale this Monday, Oct. 6 at the LSU Athletics Ticket Office.

Tickets can also be purchased online at LSUsports.net or by calling 1-800-960-TKTS or 225-578-2184.

Men’s season tickets start at $100, while season tickets for the Lady Tigers start at just $95.

Fans that purchase LSU women’s season tickets prior to the season opener on Nov. 16 will have the opportunity to purchase 2009 NCAA Tournament First and Second Round ticket books at a reduced price of $19. NCAA Tournament ticket books are regularly priced at $30. The first and second rounds are scheduled for March 22 and 24, 2009 and will be played at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The Tigers, under new head coach Trent Johnson, who has had great success in his nine years as a head coach at both Nevada and Stanford, will play a school record 21 home games this season. The opener is   on Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. against Jackson State in the first-ever Maravich Assembly Center-Tiger Stadium basketball-football doubleheader. The football Tigers will play Troy that night at 7 p.m. in a makeup from a game postponed in September.

The men will host Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 2), Washington State (Dec. 27) and Xavier (Ohio) (Jan. 24) in nationally-televised non-conference games.

The league schedule also features LSU against Florida in an ESPN Super Tuesday contest on Feb. 24.

The Tigers will also host the 100th anniversary game Jan. 31 against Arkansas that will feature a reunion of former players and the announcement of the LSU All-Century Team selected by the fans and the LSU Centennial Basketball Committee. All season long, former players will be on hand to serve as guest captains and sign autographs in the concourse as LSU honors the great history of its basketball program.

The Lady Tigers are coming off a fifth straight NCAA Final Four appearance, joining Connecticut as the only school in the history of NCAA women’s basketball to achieve the feat. Second-year LSU head coach Van Chancellor returns 2007-08 SEC Sixth Woman of the Year Allison Hightower and has brought in an elite signing class that features three McDonald’s All-Americans.

Season tickets for the LSU women feature 16 regular season games (and two exhibitions) including both contests of the State Farm Tip-Off Classic on Sunday, Nov. 16. The premiere season-opening event will pit LSU versus Notre Dame at 1:30 p.m. followed by Texas A&M against Pittsburgh at 4 p.m.

The Lady Tigers welcome six teams that advanced to last year’s NCAA Tournament including Xavier, Florida State and Nebraska to the Maravich Center. Seven Southeastern Conference home games are on the slate and include a matchup against defending national champion Tennessee on Feb. 26.