Category Archives: Basketball
Former LSU Star Glen “Big Baby” Davis Coming into His Own
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Big Baby has turned up his game. The former LSU Star averaged 21 minutes and 7 points per game in the regular season playing in his second year with the Boton Celtics. However, after losing Kevin Garnett for at least the first round of the playoffs, Big Baby stepped in and averaged a solid 18 points and 41 minutes a game. The Celts moved past the Bulls after a hard fought series that went all 7 games. The Celtics meet the Magic in the second round tonight.
The Dust Settles and LSU Basketball is #17
What a season for the Tigers! This year’s team surpassed all preseason expectations and played with a new attitude, thanks to 1st year LSU coach, Trent Johnson. The Tigers had the best conference record in SEC (13-3) winning game after game down the stretch. Only SEC losses were the first game at Alabama and the last two against Vanderbilt and at Auburn. We will even admit here that when the season kicked off, we knew we had some talent and exciting players, but we didn’t think LSU would have the season they did.
The Tigers relied on the offense of Marcus Thornton, Bo Spencer, and Tasmin Mitchell. The bulk of the defense was left up to Garrett Temple and Chris Johnson. All of which except for Spencer and Mitchell, are leaving LSU as seniors. It should be noted that Tasmin Mitchell is testing the NBA waters, but has not hired an agent, leaving a return to the Tigers as an option.
Anyway, back to my thought; the Tigers were very shallow and inexperienced on the bench this year and the above five guys would have to carry the weight of the team most of the way if they were going to do something special. Much to Tiger fans’ surprise, that’s exactly what they did. Night in and night out, the tigers found a way to win games and won the SEC conference title. Awards were passed out (Thornton-SEC Player of the Year, T. Johnson-SEC Coach of the Year, Mitchell-1st Team SEC, Temple and C. Johnson-2nd team SEC) and LSU got ready for what was next.
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LSUtopia’s ESPN Bracket Challenge Winner
Well March Madness is finally over and we have a winner for our first annual LSUtopia ESPN Bracket Challenge. It was a close race all the way to the finish with Leaky Wader 1 pulling out the win by only 50 points with 1450 over jtlagger 7′s 1400. Much like UNC this year, Leaky started off in first place, stumbled a bit and then eventually ended in first place. I ended the contest in 8th which might not seem too great, but I was purposely trying for 8th place so the joke’s on you. Being that Leaky is my future brother in law, I can’t get in to my typical sarcastic/smart ass rants like I normally do. My Granny always said, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all…but she also taught me this. So as I promised, your gift of my signed and personally messaged losing bracket will be sent out within the next week, oh, and you get the good piece of turkey at Thanksgiving this year. Thanks goes out to everyone who signed up to play and even though you lost, here’s a little parting gift just to say thanks. (except for lsupoop and BMOT50, damn, is this how yall picked your brackets this year?) after jump
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UNC Wins it All, LSU Gave Heels Toughest Game
Well, the madness is officially over. In anti-climatic fashion, the #1 seed Tar Heels of North Carolina bulldozed #2 Michigan State in their own backyard, Detroit, Michigan in front of over 72, 000 fans. This set the record for the highest attendance ever in an NCAA national championship basketball game. The three highest behind this one all took place in the LA Superdome.
So, how did your bracket end up? Mine was over after the Final Four was decided, of which, I had none. To those of you who picked UNC, congrats. You can see the future……big deal! (LSUtopia Bracket Challenge Update coming soon) More after the jump…..
The Tar Heels won every game en route to the trophy by double digits, only the 5th team in history to do so. They opened up the tournament with a 43 point win over Radford, defeated LSU by 14, Gonzaga by 21, Oklahoma by 12, Villanova by 14, and last night over the Spartans by 17. This my friends, is dominance.
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There Will Never Be Another Pistol Pete……Never
With the NCAA Final Four still on the brain after the teams playing were decided this past weekend, I found myself thinking about the players that stood out this year…. Blake Griffin, Tyler Hansbrough, our own Marcus Thornton, and others. However dominant these players were this year, their performances do not even come close to the achievements of Pete Maravich back in the late 60s. And saying it doesn’t come close, makes me feel kind of stupid because it doesn’t even come close to being able to be compared….if that even makes sense.
Just take a gander at Pete’s collegiate stats while at LSU, you will notice that not only did he average a mind-boggling 44.2 points, he did it without the 3-point line!…..but let’s dig a little deeper….. He never scored less than 17. He also only scored less than 30…. four times!!! He scored over 40 points an unbelievable sixty-nine times!!! He played in 101 games (including 18 games on the freshman team) and scored 40 or more points, 68% of the time he stepped foot on the floor. Freshmen were not allowed by the NCAA to play varsity back at that time. He only played 83 games (3 seasons) at the varsity level. And don’t forget, he didn’t have a 3-point line! More after the jump…..
I mean, take a step back and think about that! He also averaged over 6 rebounds and 5 rebounds a game as a varsity player. He was also not afraid to contest shots coming up with a block every now and then, or driving the lane, taking a tough shot and risking getting banged up. He was a true all-around basketball player. He could do it all.
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ESPN Tourney Challenge Update
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Going in to the Sweet Sixteen we have one person sitting atop the leader board in the LSUtopia ESPN Tournament Challenge. So how does it feel to have sold your soul to the Devil, POPATOPJAM? My usual supernatural witchcraft has not worked this year at all and sacrificing chickens (no, it’s not a video of chicken genocide, you weirdo) to the Bracket gods is a dirty business; moving on to goats next year. After Wake Forest butt humped pretty much everyone’s Sweet Sixteen match ups, we are all still looking pretty good with our Elite Eight picks. This hasn’t been too tricky of a year and some people, i.e. yours truly, tried to over think some of the pairings and it bit them in the tush. But we do have a tight race for the top spot between: POPATOPJAM(560), amycomeaux 1(550), lsuetg 1(540) and CMLT for 3(540) and it could still go to any one of them. So congrats, so far, to the front runners. Whoever does finally pull out the win will get a signed copy of my losing bracket with a personal message. Something along the lines of: “you cheating bastard, there’s a special place for you in hell for beating me! All the best, Undefeated” or something really sweet like that.
ESPN Spotlights Chad Jones
With the LSU Men’s basketball team ending their season on Saturday, fans are now turing their focus to the women’s team, who will play Louisville for a spot in the Sweet 16, Tuesday night at 8:30. We are also enjoying LSU baseball and Spring Football.
Recently, ESPN blogger Chris Low posted and piece on our own Chad Jones. Currently, he is taking a break from baseball and working out with the football team. It is said that he will make the transition back to the diamond after the football spring game on April 18. More after the jump……
“We’ve got talent. We had talent last year,” Jones said. “There’s no way a team should put up points on us like they did last year. With this new defensive scheme, we’re going to be rocking this year. It’s going to be LSU defense the way it’s supposed to be — turnovers, three-and-outs and getting the ball back to our offense as quick as possible.”
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I Tip My Hat to LSU!!!!!!
Granted, I haven’t posted in awhile due to school and being out of town, but I have a little bit to say about today’s game. Come last summer if you would have told me that this years LSU team would have made the NIT tournament I would have went outside and done a back flip!! With the same team coming back, I had my doubts, but this year’s team exceeded mine and everyone else’s expectations and some. If you go to tigerrant and look at the message board about half of the posts are full of kids posting how awful we are, fire Trent Johnson, and we suck……that’s what makes this website different, I think we get a more mature/realistic LSU fan base. I am “damn proud” of this basketball team and wish nothing but the best for Marcus Thorton, Temple, Johnson, Martin, and Q. Thorton. A couple of these will play again (NBA or over seas) and I will always appreciate what they did to make this season special. UNC did win, but it was fun for 35 minutes!!!! We had a chance to shock the world and we didn’t take advantage of it. UNC is a very good team and I’m sure we earned their respect!! We didn’t quit and that’s why I’m proud to be a Tiger!! On paper, our team next year looks questionable, but that’s what I said last year. I trust Coach Johnson and can’t wait till next season!!! GEAUX TIGERS!!!
