Biggest Regular Season Basketball Game since 2006

This morning, I got to thinking…. When was the last time we had a regular season basketball game of such importance? And by importance, I mean in terms of winning the league. It seems like for the last 10 to 15 years that games of importance for us have been whether or not we need this win to get into the NCAA Tournament. This game against Kentucky feels different. It feels like we are ready to break through and compete for the league crown and prove we belong on the national stage again.

So, I went back and looked at the 2008-09 season to see what the big regular season games were. However, in that season we ran away with the conference regular season championship mostly because the league as a whole was down that year. Despite losing our last two conference games, we still won the league by 3 games. There was no game on that schedule where we played somebody down the stretch where both teams had great conference records.

After that season, I went back and looked at the 2005-06 Final Four season. On February 11, 2006 we played at 7th ranked and eventual national champion Florida. We were 8-1 and Florida was 6-3 in conference play going into that game. Despite being unranked in that game and losing, we rebounded after that loss and won the rest of our regular season games and took the regular season title.

I bring this up because it is a great time to be an LSU Basketball fan. I am absolutely jacked for a regular season basketball game that actually means somethings. I have been starving for a game like this one on Tuesday for years!



Win or lose, the things that Will Wade has done for this program in just two seasons is absolutely incredible.