Tex Winter coached at LSU for one season. Yet, many on here act like he was the behind the scenes mastermind at LSU for the majority of the Brown tenure. Brown had already taken LSU to a Final Four and Elite Eight before Winter arrived. He took them to another Final Four and Elite Eight after Winter left.

Every year we get this question. And it is always answered through the purview of hindsight. But you have to go back to 1990. Jackson was in his Soph. season and he wasn't playing the same at the end of 1990. The discussion has always been that changing his Tourette's medicine during that season changed him as a player. Shaq was a physical specimen. But he was also a true freshman. People forget that true freshmen at that time weren't looked as as the go to guys in those days or really expected to be the "man" on the team. A lot of what Shaq was doing that year was just raw ability...not unlike many great freshmen during that era.

Could Brown have done a better job coaching in that game? Absolutely! (specifically going a bit smaller to combat Tech instead of playing O'Neal and Roberts together the whole game). But it's not like this was a FDU vs. Purdue upset. Georgia Tech was really damn good. They had the national freshman of the year in Kenny Anderson. They had ACC POY in Dennis Scott. And they played a style a lot of teams didn't play at that time. They shot a ton of 3's. Keep in mind, the 3 point shot had only become available in 1987 and was still not viewed as a great shot as it is today. Defenses WANTED opponents to shoot 3's. They didn't really try to run teams off the line.

Georgia Tech was a top 10 team late in the season before a pair of two point losses to Virginia and North Carolina to end the season. They then won the ACC Tournament coming into the NCAAT.

It's not like the game was a blowout. LSU had a shot to take the lead with less than 20 seconds to play. Overall, LSU shot 47% while holding Georgia Tech to 37%. The difference? Georgia Tech made 10 three's (on 40% shooting) and 10 more FTs than LSU (Singleton and Roberts when a combined 3-11 from the line; Shaq was 9-12). That was just enough for Georgia Tech to skirt by with a 3 point win...en route to the Final Four before losing to a UNLV team that LSU had beaten that season.

It was frustrating loss. But that is the cruelty of the NCAA Tournament. One poor stretch in a game can end a season's worth of work. Lord knows LSU had their moments where they did that to other great teams. Most notably in 1986 and 1987