35 years ago today LSU won its one and only SEC Tournament

My dad was in the Bengal brass band during that season. Has a lot of cool stories

I had to look. It is.

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And each time it was against kentucky right? Or at least the last three were.

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And to truly get in the mood for the era and times, here's Earth, Wind and Fire's "In the Stone" which most pep bands played at the time and a lot of college BB games used for bumper music.

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You mean, like this?

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Birmingham.

I was there. I was 14 and when we won the semi-final my brother-in-law called my sister to fly up and come see the final.

I was staying at her house that weekend and she felt sorry for me and begged my brother-in-law to let her bring me too.

One of my favorite LSU sports memories of all time. Two top-5 teams, and the Cat fans of course outnumbered us 4-1.

Cookie Man got physical with Bowie early and he was pretty much intimidated the rest of the game.

Dwayne Scales went off in the second half. He hit about 5 straight elbow jumpers and the Cats could not stop him.

It was indeed snowing outside but the shooting was hot. Both teams shot easily over 50%.

My sister let me party with them for a bit after the game than paid a cab to take me to the hotel after the game while they partied all night. I was just glad to be there.

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The Astronaut

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The monicker was as much for his flakey personality as his skywalking vertical leap.


But when he wanted to play, he could be unreal. In that Kentucky game...he wanted to play.

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Ethan Martin- without him - they lose

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Best LSU point guard ever.

Then he must have been a music major. I was in the Court Jesters, an interesting group of former and current GBFTL members that Charlie Roberts (yeah him) directed. As the basketball team started getting really good and packing the PMac, Stephen Detzel (working for his Daddy the AD) decided to boot us and use the primo seats (courtside) to reward music major recruits. He was also responsible for moving our football seats off into the corner of the end zone.

As for that game, a carload of us were staying at my Aunt's house and had to watch the final game on her TV less than 15 minutes from the arena because all the roads were closed. One of the guys in our crew was a Wanker and had never seen snow-he was playing in it like a 5 year old. And I'll never forget the earlier games watching Kentucky fans grabbing everyone walking out not dressed in blue and asking them for their remaining tickets. There was a real rivalry forming because Daddy Dale had teams that could finally compete with them toe to toe.

ETA: second the sentiments on Ethan Martin. Watched him several times in HS (in our District) and he was just so smooth on the court. Always looked like he was about half asleep, but he was a good as I've seen in P&G running an offense.

Thanks for rekindling the fond memories. That team was loaded. Agree with others sentiments about Ethan Martin. He was one cool cat. Had those sleepy eyes and look of indifference on his face...then in a split second would blow by a defender into the lane with a kick out to Macklin, Scales or Sims. That team was classic playing inside-out. It's interesting Coach Johnny Jones style today.