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Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:13 pm to Elcid96
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Your right...just me and the sports writers who had them preseason number 1 or 2 jack arse...but I guess your right...I was crazy to think we were going to be good...Great comment
and it lasted one week. We finished regular season ranked barely in top 20. Back then, players stuck around. Not realistic to expect them to have won it all.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:17 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Actually, yes, they have. But it was a looooooooooooooooooooooong friggin' time ago before the NCAA existed, and even before Bob Pettit played at LSU. Hell, it was even before Pearl Harbor was bombed. But for the life of me I can't remember whether it was 1930 or 1940.
Either way, football is a sport and basketball is a game.
Either way, football is a sport and basketball is a game.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:34 pm to Draconian Sanctions
National champions in 1935
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:39 pm to Draconian Sanctions
IIRC, we were #1 going into the 1990 season- and lost the opener to Southern Miss.
Right out the gate. So much for preseason rankings.
Right out the gate. So much for preseason rankings.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:40 pm to EdwardTeach
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National champions in 1935
I was at the game when they unveiled the banner. Still don't think it's legit though. I think we won some tournament that year or something. It's like Alabama's 102 national championships in football.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:48 pm to Dro
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Who cares?
+1
basketball=
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:49 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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I was at the game when they unveiled the banner. Still don't think it's legit though. I think we won some tournament that year or something. It's like Alabama's 102 national championships in football.
No, it wasn't like bama's made-up 200 football national championships. This was legit.
I believe Pittsburgh was #1 and we were #2, and we beat them in the last game of the season (I think). Anyhow, there were no official polls back then, but the press unanimously proclaimed us national champs. That's how it worked back then.
I'm sure you could get a more accurate account from wiki, or something else on the interwebs.
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Sparky Wade was All-American at guard on that 1935 national championship team, and Buddy Blair was the star forward. They played their home games at the Gym Armory, which remained in its original configuration until some a-hole named Saban had it gutted so he could have an athlete-education center where players could learn how to weave baskets and stay eligible.
This post was edited on 9/22/10 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 9/22/10 at 9:58 pm to oleheat
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IIRC, we were #1 going into the 1990 season- and lost the opener to Southern Miss.
1989-90 season, we were #2 behind UNLV. Kansas beat LSU at the PMAC and UNLV at the Shark Tank in the Preseason NIT to go from unranked to #2.
I don't think LSU has ever been #1 in the modern era of CBB.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:04 pm to Sal Minella
Late in the 1980 - 1981 season, the Tigers reached #2. They lost at UK on the last day of the regular season and would eventually make it to the Final Four that year. They wound up losing in the semis to Indiana, then to Virginia in what would be the last 3rd place game played at the Final Four.
This post was edited on 9/22/10 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:09 pm to AntiAntiTiger
LSU lost to UTEP and Tim Hardaway in the first round in 1989. Lost to Ga Tech in 2nd round in 1990.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:09 pm to EastBankTiger
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They wound up losing in the semis to Indiana, then to Virginia in what would be the last 3rd place game played at the Final Four.
Isaiah Thomas for Indiana and Ralph Sampson for Virginia. They were pretty good at the next level too.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:10 pm to ehidal1
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Lost to Ga Tech in 2nd round in 1990
I think LSU was up like 27-9 at one point in that game.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:12 pm to Dro
quote:Evidently the OP does or he wouldn't have asked
Who cares?
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:14 pm to Elcid96
The 1981 team went into the tournament as the No. 1 team
Posted on 9/22/10 at 10:16 pm to oleheat
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IIRC, we were #1 going into the 1990 season- and lost the opener to Southern Miss.
actually, LSU came out #2 and beat Southern Miss in the opener of the pre-season NIT, but lost to unranked Kansas the very next nite at the PMAC. Kansas then beat #1 UNLV a day or two later.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 11:14 pm to TheBaker
I could've sworn LSU was pre-season #1 that year, at least that's the way I chose to remember it. There was huge hype for the "twin towers" and I remember Roberts being a bigger recruit than Shaq if I'm not mistaken. CJ had probably the greatest freshman year in college basketball, evah! It was justifiable to believe the hype. I haven't been as excited about LSU basketball since.
Posted on 9/22/10 at 11:16 pm to Elcid96
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I am still convinced Dale Brown had black male pictures of everyone on the LSU board and State Senate.
Posted on 9/23/10 at 2:10 am to Draconian Sanctions
We were ranked # 2 in all the polls going into the final game of the 1981 season.
We were ranked preseason # 1 and #1 for a very short time in 1991.
We were ranked preseason # 1 and #1 for a very short time in 1991.
Posted on 9/23/10 at 2:50 am to Swamp Angel
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Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Damn Germans.....
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