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

No blonde highlites, so I assume it's Tudor.

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I-59 Tiger

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tell me about the '85 team. Weren't they picked to win it all (SEC?) and got knocked out by the Admiral?

Was this the lineup:

F Williams
F Ice
C Vance
G Taylor
G Redden

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If so (or close), that team should have done great things. Also, did Nikita play a lot on tha team? Gimme a breakdown. My recollections in all LSU sports goes only back to '86 for the most part.

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Yes...

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

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Rollin, nice one. I was at that game and the noise was deafening when RB sank that shot. As loud as any Saints game.

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The thread is "your memories" not greatest memories moron!!

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Ok, now how bout a great one?

I believe Shaq blocked Mill's Rook's and William's shot in one trip down the court toward the end of the game. "Get it outta here!Im the best in America baby"!!

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tell me about the '85 team. Weren't they picked to win it all (SEC?) and got knocked out by the Admiral?

Was this the lineup:

F Williams
F Ice
C Vance
G Taylor
G Redden

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Very close. Take out "Vance" for Nikita Wilson. Oliver Brown played a decent amount,too.

Strange,yet 'typical' Dale team post 1981. They were pre-season SEC champion and started out ranked #16 or so. Williams was a true freshman and came to town a little chunky. The 1984 team ended on a thud,losing in Nashville to Vandy to end any mathematical shot at the SEC title getting waxed on SR day in Lexington to end the regular season,lost on a crazy play at the end of the game to Alabama in the SEC tournament and were eliminated by Dayton in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The 1985 OOC schedule was brutal. Loyola-Chicago (who went to the NCAA tourney),Oral Roberts,Houston,Texas and two mid conference season game 'made for tv' at Syracuse and at home against North Carolina (yr after Jordan left).

Cruised along early with an unusual mixture of SEC games in December and started out 10-1 with only a loss at Houston. Lost to State in Starkville (which was the beginning of a tough spell against them through O'Neal's career) and then were smoked in Tuscaloosa by the Tide about 10 days after the Baton Rouge win.

Dale had irritated Wimp (surprise !) after the 61-59 win by referring to the Tigers as 'somnambulists' basically saying LSU had sleepwalked through the win. Alabama was pretty good and would go on to the West Sweet 16 and didn't care for that and creamed us in Tuscaloosa.

The next two weeks were classic Dale 'Jekyl and Hyde' basketball. After the 'Bama loss,LSU came home and trailed a 'decent' Tennessee team (that went on to the "NIT Final Four") by 10 at haltime and came back and won by 10.

Went back on the road and lost to a horrible Ole Miss team and beat Vanderbilt who would have its worst SEC record since WWII, at the buzzer on a miracle shot by Jerry Reynolds to win by 1 in Nashville.

Then came home and popped a good Florida and a good Auburn team.Went back on the road and scored a measley 43 to UK's 53 in what had been Joe Hall's worst team since his second yr in Lexington.

Then came the infamous loss at home to Georgia,59-58 when Williams inexplicially threw the ball past midcourt from the baseline after LSU had gotten possession after a great stop down low vs a good UGA team.Georgia then caught and released a 20 ft at the buzzer (Henderson ?) to win.

This left LSU at 7-5 in league play . LSU won out -- SEC play,losing both marquee OOC games, at Syracuse soundly and barely at home to North Carolina.

Still,LSU needed some help. Kentucky got on a roll and Georgia and Alabama stayed near the top after LSU's 7-5 start.

NBC had LSU and Kentucky play at the Assembly Center to end the regular season. LSU was 12-5 as was Georgia. A Kentucky win and Georgia win would make Ga champ. A UK win and Ga loss would give the SEC 'tri champs' with LSU,Ga,and UK.

LSU won 67-61 and Tennessee beat Georgia in Knoxville to give LSU the outright title.(Don DeVoe and Hugh Durham were involved in a nasty battle with Durham accusing DeVoe and the Vols for trying to rat out Georgia for infractions.)It had to sting for Georgia,with the Tennessee loss denying them a share of what would have been there first SEC title.

LSU then went to Birmingham as the #1 seed and lost to #7 seed Auburn and its miracle run ,58-55.(Auburn won its next 4 games;two in the SEC tourney to win it and two games in South Bend in the SE first round to narrowly lose in Birmingham to North Carolina in the Sweet 16)

Still,LSU was made a 4 seed in the first year of the 64 team bracket. You know the rest,a humiliating loss to Navy and the Admiral.

The one thing that I remember, and have wished other players were as smart (or gifted enough to do) was Chris Jackson - he would go up for a shot and if the opponent blocked his shot, he would hold the ball until he was on his way down, open his hands, let the ball go and bounce on the court in front of him, then pick it up and shoot the shot again.

No one has that kind of discipline and skills any more. He did this 20-30 times during his time at LSU. Best shooter I have ever seen live (just a little to young for the Pistol).

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Dale had irritated Wimp (surprise !) after the 61-59 win by referring to the Tigers as 'somnambulists' basically saying LSU had sleepwalked through the win

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Yeah I-59, that's probably why Wimp countered in '90 with his famed "LSU's so good even Dale can't screw 'em up" line.

Well....

My fondest memory was when I was about 13 years old and my uncle took me too my first LSU basketball game. I'm 31 now. Long story short Shaquille Oneal was a freshman on a team loaded with talent. Maurice Williamson, Stanley Roberts, Vernell Singleton, among others. They spanked a nobody but I been a huge fan ever sence. Really looking forward to the next few years and I hope Trent can lock down the Louisiana talent!