re: Most memorable basketball game?

One of the more memorable recent games for me was the 2019 game against Vanderbilt. The actual game itself wasn't that memorable. It was a blowout win of a terrible Vanderbilt team. However, it did secure LSU's first SEC Championship in 10 years.

What made it memorable was it was played a few days after the yahoo story broke and Wade was suspended by Alleva. The PMAC was full in anticipation of LSU wining the SEC. But with Wade's suspension it turned into a Joe Alleva hate fest. Literally before and during every break in the action the crowd was spewing hate at Alleva. It was as if the crowd was literally just waiting for timeouts so they could start chanting and yelling at Alleva again. No one cared about the music the band/DJ was playing during the break. No one cared about the "dance cam", or any other thing being shown on the video board or taking place on the court during the time out. It was just non-stop yelling at Alleva.

To his credit, Joe showed up to the game and sat in his seat (at least for the first half) while being jeered relentlessly. On the one hand I understood, and shared in the crowd's anger. But on the other I could not imagine what it must have been like to sit there and have 10k+ people screaming hate at you all game long.

We could look back one day and see that was a huge turning point for the athletic program as a whole as I fully believe the amount of vitriol directed at Alleva that night directly created the groundswell to get him fired soon thereafter.