re: most underated lsu basketball players

+1 with Lamont Roland

we were actually a decent squad with him the year after Stro left. Then he tore his ACL and we only won 2 SEC games....but we were in almost every single game but ran out of gas with 5 minutes left...despite the record, I actually liked that team a lot because we played so hard every game. Moreso than I enjoyed last year's underachieving 9-win SEC team.

eta: just doing a little research from dandydon:

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The Tigers would be decimated the following year (2000-2001) from NCAA sanctions that had occurred from the Lester Earl investigation. With only 5 healthy scholarship players for SEC play, the Tigers struggled all season and finished with a 13-16 overall and 2-14 conference record. Despite the poor record, the Tigers were able to upset #18 Georgia in the first round of the SEC tourney and had many other games that went down to the wire. LSU also upset #14 Ole Miss 78-77 in the PMAC regular season finale.

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we only had 5 scholarship players but we could hang with anyone in the gym that year....Lamont would have undoubtedly given us a few more W's