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re: Most memorable basketball game?
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:32 am to Manswers
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:32 am to Manswers
Agree about the 78 UK double overtime game. I was a Freshman and it really was the catalyst game where Dale Brown turned LSU Basketball into a top tier program. We got on a roll 78-82. The fact we won’t that UK game with all 5 staters fouling out was insane.
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Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:32 am to mdomingue
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I'm old. #5 LSU vs #6 Kentucky January 19th, 1981. LSU won 81-67. The LSU Assembly Center (now the PMAC), was packed. Student section was insane.
I remember getting in the student section line around 12:30 for the game. I was so far back I had to sit in the upper section.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:33 am to Ingeniero
quote:Yeah driving back to my place off river road after that was a total shite show. No idea how we made it
This one for me. I was a student and people were sliding all over the road trying to drive to the game. Wild atmosphere.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:34 am to mdomingue
I'm as old or older (53). My parents took me to that 1978 UK game when all our starters fouled out, and we still hung on to beat a GREAT Wildcat team. The youngsters on this board don't realize how huge LSU basketball was under Dale, and can be again when we're rolling. There were a few years when basketball was bigger than football at LSU.
That night sparked my lifelong love affair with LSU basketball. I was also in love with LSU football (and still am) from going to Tiger Stadium games.
That night sparked my lifelong love affair with LSU basketball. I was also in love with LSU football (and still am) from going to Tiger Stadium games.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:36 am to Manswers
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Someone has to have a video of this game. It needs to be up on YouTube. This started the great Dale Brown run into the early 90s.
was fortunate to have been at that game, one of the greatest LSU sporting events I've ever witnessed, ironically it turned out to have been just a "good game," don't think we even got a bid to the tournament that year
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:36 am to tigahlovah
1990 Loyola-Marymount. Because of LMU’s full court press and shoot a 3 within 6 seconds offense, it was intense from start to finish. 148-143 in OT. I’m STILL sweating
This post was edited on 12/29/22 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:41 am to Safety Blitz
1990 LSU vs. Arizona when Shaq had his national coming out game is up there.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:53 am to 777Tiger
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was fortunate to have been at that game, one of the greatest LSU sporting events I've ever witnessed, ironically it turned out to have been just a "good game," don't think we even got a bid to the tournament that year
That’s because there were only 32 teams in the tournament. Just 11 at large. That year Ky. was the only SEC to get a bid.
This post was edited on 12/29/22 at 9:54 am
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:54 am to Safety Blitz
VS Wichita St in the Dome to make the Final 4
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:56 am to SalE
Easy...1978 Kentucky game in Deaf Dome. Beat the eventual National Champions with all 5 starters fouled out. Atmosphere was insane. 
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:58 am to d2
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90’s
LSU vs UNLV (favorite game I attended)
Pretty epic and probably my favorite ever attendedPosted on 12/29/22 at 10:02 am to doubleb
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That’s because there were only 32 teams in the tournament. Just 11 at large. That year Ky. was the only SEC to get a bid.
yep, the tail end of the pre-participation award era
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:10 am to Safety Blitz
Won’t be anyone else’s but I really enjoyed throwing tennis balls at my former Brandon, FL teammate Dwayne Schintzius (RIP). Late 80’s and he had recently gotten in to a bar fight and used his tennis racket.
He wouldn’t mind me saying this but he was always a maniac.
He wouldn’t mind me saying this but he was always a maniac.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:18 am to tiger81
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Easy...1978 Kentucky game in Deaf Dome. Beat the eventual National Champions with all 5 starters fouled out. Atmosphere was insane.
That was the watershed moment for Dale's program. Dale's debut season was a mild success but the next 4 were not. You could see the building blocks beginning to take form in 76-77 and then that game in 77-78 opened some eyes and the resulting run was fun.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:19 am to tigahlovah
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I'm as old or older (53).
I'm gonna be 61 next month
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:19 am to Tiger Ugly
Y'all sleeping on the 2018 season. That buzzer beater tip in at Rupp was awesome. And the comeback road win at Missouri was the most improbable shite I've seen pulled off.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:20 am to Safety Blitz
1986 vs. Kentucky to make the Final 4 with Ricky Blanton lay-up, Don Redden, etc..
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:34 am to Safety Blitz
I was a student in 1981. That January 81 Kentucky game was probably the high point of my time in the student section. Then later that year were the regionals in the Superdome that vaulted us to the Final Four.
Those were the days.
I think of those times when someone on here suggests decreasing the capacity of the PMAC. I voice my opposition and get downvoted but I don’t care because I know what the PMAC can be like.
I was at the regionals in Atlanta in 1986 and 2006 to see us advance to the Final Four in those years. Fun trips.
I was also at the Arizona game that you referenced. The PMAC was certainly rocking that day.
That Loyola Marymount game may have been the PMAC at its peak but I watched that one on television.
Those were the days.
I think of those times when someone on here suggests decreasing the capacity of the PMAC. I voice my opposition and get downvoted but I don’t care because I know what the PMAC can be like.
I was at the regionals in Atlanta in 1986 and 2006 to see us advance to the Final Four in those years. Fun trips.
I was also at the Arizona game that you referenced. The PMAC was certainly rocking that day.
That Loyola Marymount game may have been the PMAC at its peak but I watched that one on television.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:42 am to Safety Blitz
Mine was a very unique game. It wasn’t official. It was an exhibition game before Chris Jackson’s (MAR) sophomore year (his last as a Tiger).
Dale was friends with the Soviet basketball team’s coach Alexander Gomelsky.
They were traveling to several NCAA big teams that early Fall & played LSU —- when Arvydas Sabonis was on the team & still in his prime. Also on that team was Alexander Volkov & future NBA player Šarunas Marciulionis.
The Soviets had just won the Olympic gold in 1988 —— which began the talk of USA using pros —- thus the preparing for the 1992 DREAM TEAM
LSU won with a freshman Shaq and Soph. Stanley Roberts
It was so cool to see that game in person
Dale was friends with the Soviet basketball team’s coach Alexander Gomelsky.
They were traveling to several NCAA big teams that early Fall & played LSU —- when Arvydas Sabonis was on the team & still in his prime. Also on that team was Alexander Volkov & future NBA player Šarunas Marciulionis.
The Soviets had just won the Olympic gold in 1988 —— which began the talk of USA using pros —- thus the preparing for the 1992 DREAM TEAM
LSU won with a freshman Shaq and Soph. Stanley Roberts
It was so cool to see that game in person
This post was edited on 12/29/22 at 10:51 am
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:46 am to Im4LSUnTN
1990 Arizona
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1989 UNLV
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