BATON ROUGE – LSU Basketball junior guard Skylar Mays was announced Monday as a First-Team Academic All-America on the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I Men’s Basketball Team.
The team is selected annually by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and all sports information/communications members are eligible to vote on the final ballot made up of all-district selections around the country.
Mays, a Baton Rouge product and one of the leaders of this LSU Basketball team, is averaging in double figures on the court while maintaining a 4.01 GPA average in pre-med/kinesiology.
Twice this semester, the Tigers have been on the road on a Wednesday night with Mays having major tests scheduled on Thursday in his evening physics class and another test in another class on Friday morning.