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re: Final 4 topic on SECR got me thinking, what’s your favorite LSU Final 4 run?
Posted on 3/31/26 at 9:44 am to Bryno1960
Posted on 3/31/26 at 9:44 am to Bryno1960
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1986 with Blanton, Redden, Vargas, etc.
John Williams was the best player on that team. He was so silky smooth on the floor for a bigger guy. BUT the engine was Derrick Taylor. He ran it all.
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Posted on 3/31/26 at 12:05 pm to ATCTx
Good recap.
Loved the ‘81 team. Can still hear Greg Cook slapping the ball on a rebound.
Loved the ‘81 team. Can still hear Greg Cook slapping the ball on a rebound.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 12:32 pm to brightsideman
'86 for me. Cinderella team that should have been in the Finals.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 12:41 pm to lsusteve1
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Easily 1986
This.
Horford leave/gets kicked off midseason. Nikita Wilson was ineligible for the spring. Chicken pox. LSU barely made it into the tournament. But they got to host the first round in the AC (no "PM" at that point). They beat Purdue in OT and 3 seed Memphis St. on a buzzer beater. Then to follow that up by beating 2 seed Georgia Tech in Atlanta and 1 seed Kentucky to go to the Final Four was incredible. That run essentially changed the NCAA Tournament as it went to all neutral site games two years later.
1981 was a great team that seemed inevitable to make the Final Four. 2006 was a team you just expected to lose in the NCAA Tournament at some point, but kept finding a way (until the Final Fourt). But the 1986 team was a shock to everyone
Posted on 3/31/26 at 1:25 pm to lsusteve1
'86 was so exciting.
Blanton hitting that shot and running down the court waving his arms.
Blanton hitting that shot and running down the court waving his arms.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 1:51 pm to TopWaterTiger
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I was only 7 in 1986
I was 8, and I remember the ‘86 football and baseball teams that started a few months later. Well, I probably don’t remember much of the ‘86 baseball team until the postseason. Basketball has always been my 3rd favorite sport, but I’m surprised there’s such a gap between the 1st football and baseball teams I remember and the 1st basketball team I do, which was probably CJ’s freshman season. He’s still probably my favorite LSU athlete ever, despite basketball being my 3rd favorite sport. I was absolutely crushed when he left after his sophomore season. That didn’t seem to happen back then.
All that to say:
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2006 is my answer.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 1:54 pm to Delta9
Don't forget Anthony Wilson's buzzer beater to beat Memphis, too! PMAC went WILD!
Posted on 3/31/26 at 1:58 pm to lsusteve1
1980-81 is my favorite Final 4 Team, but the previous year is my favorite team, Cook, Macklin, Scales, Carter and Martin, with Sims, Hultberg and Mattick(before he quit) coming off the bench,i 80-81, Mitchell replaced Scales and they should've won it if Macklin doesn't hurt his finger vs Wichita State.
This post was edited on 3/31/26 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 3/31/26 at 1:59 pm to lsusteve1
1981 was the most disappointing, because they should have won it all. 2006 had so many extraordinary guys, but 1986 is my favorite. I was in the student section for the first 2 rounds, and then couldn't believe when they beat Kentucky after losing to them twice earlier in the season. What a ride they gave us!
Posted on 3/31/26 at 2:09 pm to lsusteve1
2006 by default bc only one I was alive for lol.
But man, we physically beat the hell out of Duke in the Sweet 16.
Everybody remembers GT suffocating JJ but big baby and tyrus made dukes AA big Sheldon Williams look like a JV player. That number one overall seed Duke team was so athletically inferior to LSU that night.
Big Baby’s 3 against Texas to ice the Elite 8 game will also always be remembered.
But man, we physically beat the hell out of Duke in the Sweet 16.
Everybody remembers GT suffocating JJ but big baby and tyrus made dukes AA big Sheldon Williams look like a JV player. That number one overall seed Duke team was so athletically inferior to LSU that night.
Big Baby’s 3 against Texas to ice the Elite 8 game will also always be remembered.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:03 pm to lsusteve1
frick Bobby Knight
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:08 pm to lsusteve1
No Question.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:17 pm to lsusteve1
2006 has been the only one that I followed closely as it was happening, and I was working a contract gig in Louisville, KY surrounded by UK fans the whole time.
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:24 pm to udtiger
quote:I hate that piece of shite more than I should as a ~decent person, but frick him. He wanted to get buried arse up so he get could get pegged for all eternity. People that idolize that piece of shite should grant his wish.
frick Bobby Knight
Posted on 3/31/26 at 3:45 pm to lsusteve1
86, without a doubt. 81 is in the conversation bc it was the first time (in my lifetime).
This post was edited on 3/31/26 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 4/4/26 at 12:11 am to lsusteve1
1986: my very favorite LSU team. It seems that team faced so much adversity the whole season, with Nikita's academic eligibility, the injuries, the pox virus. They were the underdogs who simply never gave up, and for 8 1/2 halfs and 2 overtimes were well-nigh invincible in the NCAA tourney. What a TEAM!
2006: great team who overachieved
1981: simply the best LSU team of all time
Honorable Mention: 1987
2006: great team who overachieved
1981: simply the best LSU team of all time
Honorable Mention: 1987
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