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

1. my first game: maravich gets 58 vs. st
2. the memphis state game to go to regionals

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That and beating Loyola Marymount at their own game, 148-141 in OT (I think), was awesome. Dale could have set up our halfcourt offense and beaten them to a pulp. But instead he said, "you think you can run? This isn't even our game style, but we've got boys that can FLY!"

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That was the most exciting basketball game I have ever seen bar none. I remember standing the entire game and jumping up and down so much that I was completely exhausted when it was over.

Now, maybe I'm remembering wrong, but didn't we also beat UNLV (with Larry Johnson) that same season in a similar-type game?

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yes, blanton from the baseline jumper

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Then those are my top two games ever. I kept running into Ricky Blanton at different places in Dallas after I graduated. Every time I'd mention those games. I just couldn't help myself.

Yes...

and Tiger Fans... Enjoy>>>>>>>>>>> LSUvsHoyas

So many great memories but the one that sticks out the most was watching Adoph Rupp try every defense known to man trying to stop Pistol Pete's one-man show. His 64 points would have been 78 using modern 3-point line. The Tigers lost but you couldn't tell by the look on Rupp's face.
Hell, just watching Pete's pre-game routine in the Cow-Palace was worth the price of admission.

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Pistol Pete's one-man show. His 69 points

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that game in an upset loss in Tuscaloosa in 1970.

To clarify the UNLV games:

'89 - LSU beat UNLV on a Blanton 3 pointer with about 6 seconds to go. Greg Anthony missed his 2nd of 2 FT's at the other end, to give us the chance to win. Even more amazing than Blanton's shot was Chris Jackson saving Wayne Simms's errant pass right after Anthony's miss. Wow. UNLV did not have LJ on that squad. Augmon and Anthony hurt us.

'90 - LSU beats eventual national champ UNLV on Super Bowl Sunday. I've listed this game earlier.


* We went to UNLV in Dec of '87 and got run off the court. The high point of that game was getting to see one of the biggest busts in school history - Hernand Montenegro. I have no idea what happened to him.

* We went back to Vegas in Dec of '91 and got run out of the Thomas and Mack Center again. JR Rider had a sick dunk or three.

The LSU-Vegas mini-rivalry was all about home court. Some great games.

Enjoy some of this... SI Dec. 1980

"Cookie doesn't throw elbows."... "he just pivots funny." - Dale Brown

Enormous and powerful, not to mention quick and elusive, are valid descriptions of the LSU juggernaut. Oh yes. And bad. As Philadelphia will discover about the Tigers, they definitely bad. -SI

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Hi-C (Howard Carter),

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i remember a fade away game winner he hit from deep in the corner, at the buzzer...might have been at Georgia.

Mine maybe a little insignificant compared to others, because it is a loss. I forget the year (like 95 maybe), but I was a student back from 1994-1999 and there was one year at the back end of Nolan Richardsons "40 minutes of Hell" days when they were pretty highly ranked, and LSU and Dale Brown were about to part ways with each other. We had just took the lead on the Hogs with about about 20 seconds left. Arky came down, missed a shot with only like 7 or 8 seconds left. LSU got the rebound, passed it down the court, but was stolen with about 3 seconds left. The dude turned around, dribbled once, pulled up from about 50 ft and drained a game winning three. That was the last time until Bradys boys defeated #1 Arizona like in 99 or 2000 that you could truly called the PMAC the "Deaf Dome". After that it seemed the air out of the old dome just deflated. But I tell ya, it was one hell of a rockin and rollin crowd that night and my throat was sore for two days!