That team gets too much grief. I understand completely about the 1992 Fab Five and what Kentucky has done of late. Still, CJ was a soph (and not really the world's best "team player"),Shaquille was a freshman and Roberts was a Prop 48 first yr player who had been virtually dormant for a year.

With that said it was inexcusable for that squad not to have won the SEC Title. That was Georgia and Alec Kessler's big year. Georgia won late in Baton Rouge and came from 17 down at halftime in Athens to beat LSU.Either one of those resulting in an LSU win would have given LSU a share.

If that wasn't enough, the next game after Georgia was an ESPN game in Gainesville. Remember,this was a long time before virtually every game was televised. This was put together back in the summer to feature Florida's Livingston Chatman and Dewayne Schintzius. Florida had just won its first SEC title the prior year.But in October of 1989 Florida coach Norm Sloan was fired over NCAA allegations. Recently fired former Tennessee coach Don DeVoe was chosen as 'interim coach.'A "player's coach" to a Bob Knight protege'.Chatman and Schintzius quit in early January for failing to comply with some of DeVoe's requests.

Okay,the point--? Well, around mid-January Florida was fielding a virtual intramural team. LSU started out ahead 14-4 and Dick Vitale was talking about an "M&M - er" and how this was going to be bad. Florida caught up and led at halftime. They actually increased their lead to 63-39 at one point before a run made the final margin more 'acceptable.'

In my opinion, including 1/9/12, this was the most embarrassing performance in LSU history. A team that had been ranked as high as #2 being beaten soundly by a team that was just trying to finish the season.

Still, the "NC or bust" predictions were crazy. Remember the Georgia Tech team that eliminated us went on to the Final Four. Of course that regional was played in the Superdome, where had LSU beaten Tech,they very well would have gone to the FF.