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

Dickie V was hilarious. Every time shaq got down the court he was hollering "give it to the big man, give it to the big man".

Yeah he did. Tigertown, did you ever see that McDonald's game with Shaq in it? I've never heard Vitale go so nutty in my life. He coudn't believe it when Shaq dribbled the length of the court and flushed it.

Then, there was the Arizona game his soph year...that was an awesome ending!

Extra points for whoever knows what the "freak" defence was.

Yeah ,I saw that one. Some of these posts are bringing back some good memories.

I've got my own, thanks. Since when is the final tv timeout taken with 6 minutes left?

And that is beside the point...you make an effort to show up and belittle me. You have done it 3 times now.

Another gem:

The '87 road into the tourney.

The '87 team was 7th place out of 10 going into the SEC tourney. NIT was all but done. It would take a miracle for the Tigers to even get out of the 2nd round of the SEC.

The run started with a win over last place Miss State on Thurs night in the Omni.

The following night, LSU had to face a team that had beaten them twice already in Florida - the #2 seed of the SEC. The "M&M Boys" - Maxwell and Moten - were said to be unstoppable and UF had a decent down low game, too. LSU, however, got hot with Nikita Wilson and Darryl Joe and knocked off the Gators.

The following day, LSU would have to play Georgia, bascically in their own back yard. LSU got up to a 25 point lead. It was a lock, until the Dawgs came back. In double OT, LSU knocked off UGA to set up a finale with awesome #1 seed Alabama, who had also swept LSU in the regular season.

Despite a noble effort from Wilson and co., LSU could not overcome and win the SEC Tourney. Would 3 SEC tourney wins be enough? Yes, as the Tigers recieved a 10 seed that same day and would face GA Tech, a team they had beaten at the PMAC that same season.

Behind Darryl Joe's 7 3 pointers, LSU knocked out the Yellowjackets and would meet John Chaney's 2nd seeded Owls of Temple. LSU had no trouble with Temple's exceptional post game and shooting guards and rolled by 9. It would set up a Sweet 16 showdown with Rod Strickland and DePaul, who had lost 2 games all season. Behind Wilson and Wilson, LSU knocked off DePaul by 5, sealing it with a breakway layup and foul shot by Bernard Woodside. LSU went on to the regional final and lost to Indiana (which you can read about in the Fess Irvin thread). LSU was very close to repeating and going to New Orleans for the Final Four. It would have been tough to beat them there.

The '87 team was another magical story of Dale Brown's. NO way does any other coach even get that team into the dance.

don't know what you're talking about belittling you, but at the under 4:00 tv timeout duke was up 7 and at 2:00 duke was up 6. i'm not arguing this anymore.

Do you remember duringthe 1987 SEC Tourney Dale Brown refused to go to sleep until they lost. By Sunday he looked like a truck ran over him. Things like that is why we loved Daddy Dale so much.

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you made a dumbass post, so i called you a dumbass

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yeah, I'm such a dumbass for that. A game from 1992 that neither of us can prove, at the moment, about who's right.

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strait

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How do you spell iron E?