re: The 100 Years of LSU Basketball Thread - your memories

The two final four runs during Dale's tenure were great.... Anthony Wilson's last second shot to beat Memphis, Ricky Blanton's last second tip in to beat (someone I can't remember) and then running down the court waving his arms looking like Corky.... then there are the Georgetown games, especially the one with Dale telling Jose Vargas "jose DON'T SHOOT" of course Jose goes downcourt and promptly shoots the ball...... the TWO UNLV shootout games.... Loyola Marymount..... Chris Jackson and Gerald Glass of Ole Miss going head to head each dropping 40-50 points on each other everytime they played...... Nikita Wilson and that pretty baseline fade-away..... John Williams silky smooth shots...... Vernel Singleton with some unbelievable hops and Michael Jordanesque dunks off of missed shots....

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Watching LSU play Duke back in 1990??? at my cousins house.

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'91 and '92, home and home. Which one did you see? Laettner embarrass Shaq at Cameron or Shaq dominating Duke only to lose in the PMAC? The latter was a fantastic game and we actually were ahead of Duke by 5 with about 2 min left, until Dale, once again, got outcoached. '91 is one to forget. Both of those Duke teams won national titles. That '92 team might have lost 2 games all year and of course...you remember the UK/Duke elite 8 game and "the shot".

dr3. I remember that very well. I remember watching us play tenn in the middle of a parade during mardi gras. torris bright had his best 4-game stretch of his career.

All home games from 86-90. Chris Jackson, Ricky Blanton, Shaq, Stanley, Vernel, Maurice, Lyle, Jose, etc.

There were so many games, and I can't possibly remember every one. UNLV, Loyola Marymount, buzzer beater by CJ vs. Vandy and Goheen (sp.), Florida loss w/ Schintzius (Dale Brown ends up two rows behind me across the aisle choking a kid with a gym bag full of tennis balls after he throws one onto the floor).

I think the Vandy game that CJ refused to shoot because Dale told him to spread the ball around due to Shaq's pouting sticks out. An L-S-U chant started and went around the court for an entire half during that one.

You old-timers might recall some of what I'm talking about. How about the Nikita Wilson vs. Jose Vargas door beat down? That was over a high school classmate of mine.

The Arizona game was great when we beat them when they were #1, and the 2006 Final Four run was sweet. But I remember back in February of 2007 during the middle of Florida's run of back-to-back titles, I was scheduled to have surgery on my knee the day after the LSU/Florida game in Birmingham, Alabama. I hobbled my butt into the PMAC and watched us take down the defending (and future) champs. That was fun.

i cant remember the exact year but d mitchell was a freshman or sophmore i believe. but lsu only scored 12 in the 1st half against ole miss, and ole miss almost had 40. in the 2nd have dmitch came out firing and lsu won by a sizeable margin

1979-80... Rudy Macklin, Dewayne Scales, Greg Cook, Ethan Martin, Jordy Hultberg, Willie Simms

1980-81... we lost Scales and Jordy, but gained Howard Carter and Leonard Mitchel.

Those were the most bad-arse teams that ever wore an LSU uniform.

Even though neither managed a national championship, they were a million times better than any other LSU basketball team of any other era.

Rudy Macklin summed it up after ending the season with a tough loss, "I still believe we could beat anybody on any day of the week, and twice on Sunday."

im a recent grad, so i can't go too far back... but: jabari smith fake behind the back, three step dunk in the 2000 arizona game. stromile rejecting and force-feeding chris mihm the basketball in the ncaa second round against texas. garret temple literally making j.j. redick cry in his last game in 2006. this last one is a weird one... feb. 24, 2007, our season was gone to shite, and florida was cruising toward back to back titles. somehow behind terry martin and gt, we beat a team with 6, count 'em 6 current nba players. maybe uf didn't care because they knew they could turn it on. so what? though it's horrible i'll never forget how hilarious the "so easy a caveman can do it" sign with Joakim Noah on it was or how funny and terrible the chants of "uuuggg-lllyyyy" were when he was at the line.

My Top 5 in chronological order Pisces:

1) Listening to Dick Walcott on the radio in my sick bed in 1978 as all 5 starters fouled out yet we beat the No. 1 Cats in what proved to be a watershed game from which the program emerged from the duldrums.

2) 1980 SEC Tournament Final and LSU's only tourney title ever an exciting 2-pt win over Kentucky in Birmimhgam and I was lucky enough to go as an eighth-grader. Scales went off and Cook intimidated Bowie.

3)1981 Regional Finals at the Superdome. Went with my Dad, his friend and my brother and enjoyed the historic victory by LSU's best team ever to go to the Final Four.

4)1989 Georgetown game at the Superdome Blanton puts back a tipped rebound as LSU beats Georgetown with Mourning and Mutumbo in front of a frenzied crowd that included yours truly.

5)Celebrating on the Georgia Dome floor in 2006 as the Tigers followed the upset of No. 1 overall tournament seed Duke with a thrilling o.t. win over Texas. And I was interviewe by Channel 2 walking out to the game.

I could go on all night, but those stand out.

I loved the teams of the early 80's first with Scales, Cook and Macklin and then with Mitchell, Hi-C and Derrick Taylor.

One of the things that made SEC ball so great in that period was the overall talent level. Without even mentioning the Kentucky squads, I saw the Tigers go up against Dominique Wilkins, Dale Ellis and Charles Barkley. It's hard to beat that caliber of play.