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LSU is 10th Best WR School
Collegefootballnews.com has voted LSU as tied for the 10th best WR school in college football. Here is the story.
Everyone remembers where they were when Michael Clayton tipped the ball to Jack Hunt Devery Henderson in Lexington, KY November 9, 2002. And man, I can remember being in Tuscaloosa the day that Josh Reed and Rohan Davy went off and torched the Tide 35-21, setting team records in the process. Reed caught 19 passes for 293 yards and a TD. Davey had 528 yards passing. LSU’s wide receivers have always been solid as long as Jarrett Lee wasn’t throwing to them. More after the jump.
The WR’s listed are Josh Reed, Wendell Davis, Michael Clayton, Eric Martin, and Andy Hamilton. Hamilton is the only guy out of my age range, but apparently was pretty good, averaging 19.9 yards per catch.
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LSU Baseball Wins 8-5; LSU-Ark game Moved to Saturday
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The Tigers picked up a road win against Alabama last night coming back to win 8-5. LSU was down 5-2 going into the top of the 8th and scored 2, followed by 4 runs in the 9th and pulled out the win. Ryan Schimpf hit his eighth homerun of the season and Jared Mitchell hit the game winning double with two outs in the 9th. Reliever Nolan Cain (3-0) picked up the win and Manny Ott pitched very well and earned his 7th save of the season.
Tonight at 6:05, LSU (25-8, 9-4) will go for their ninth straight SEC series win dating back to last season. Again, you can catch the tonight’s and tomorrow’s games on Cox Sports TV, if you are watching in the designated viewing area.
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LSU Baseball Games to be Televised
LSU baseball and Coach Mainieri’s first major test of the season will come this weekend when they face the #6 Georgia Bulldogs (#1 ranked in the Collegiate Baseball and USA Today/ESPN polls, but what do they know?!) in Athens and the cool things is…you’ll be able to watch it. LSU will be televising 16 of their second half games this season so if you can’t make it out to the unbelievable new Alex Box Stadium, you can sit back and enjoy it at home with a cold beer and your wife telling you to take out the trash while your dog humps your leg. Ok, maybe that’s my idea of a perfect Saturday. Here’s the complete LSU baseball television schedule. For some of the games you’ll have to sign up for the Geaux Zone, which you should have already, to be able to view the games. After the jump is the article from TAF for those of you who like to read the stuff from people who actually know how to use punctuation, in their writing?
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Don’t Count Us Out Yet
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So we made it past Butler and are now rewarded with playing North Carolina in North Carolina, but don’t count us out quite yet. (even though I did in the first round versus Butler!) We played NCAA basketball royalty killer back in 2006 and could very well do it again this year.
There was no way our Tigers were going to beat the all mighty Duke Blue Devils to reach the Elite 8 and eventually the Final Four. But we did, with play that is very similar to how this team has played all year: hustle, heart and defense. Garrett Temple completely shut down national sweetie pie Gay Gay Redick (remember this pic?) and Coach K (is it me, or does his mouth look like an anus? sorry, had to ask, I’ll get on to Lou Holtz’s mouth in the football season) and there was just enough scoring from our offense to seal the win. Read the 2006 game recap here. Keep reading, I’m not done with you yet.
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LSU Tigers Survive First Round, Beat Butler 75-71
Ahhhhhh, the first game of the NCAA tournament. The ‘madness’ has begun. For the next 4 days, college basketball fans everywhere will be glued to the TV, to the CBS Sports.com’s live stream, or to ESPN’s update page. Hopefully everyone got their brackets in on time and they’re not too roughed up after the first day.
This morning the LSU Tigers came out on fire with a quick 3 by Bo Spencer. Then he stole Butler’s next possession and laid it in. Next Marcus Thornton got a steal and Tasmin Mitchell hit a jumper. Garrett Temple then got a steal and Marcus Thornton made a layup. The score was quickly 9-0 after only the first 1:40 of play…..Butler timeout. More after the jump……
Then, for whatever reason, the Tigers slowed things down and allowed the Butler Bulldogs from Indianapolis to creep back into the game and make things interesting. Butler chose to go with the one option that definitely works against LSU this year…… give it to the big guy in the middle. Butler’s Matt Howard got off a few layups in the first half, while drawing fouls from Chris Johnson and Quinton Thornton. Butler also began to do what they do well, which is make three’s. Pretty soon, they were back in the game.
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LSU Stumbles in Final Home Game vs. Vandy, 75-67
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LSU had only a single lead in this one….. 2-0. After that, the Tigers’ goal closed up and they decided defense was overrated. We knew Vanderbilt had a big guy that would give us trouble. We didn’t think A.J. Ogilvy would come in and score a career high 33 points. The ‘Dores took complete advantage of mismatches all night and the Tigers had little to answer back to keep their 10 game winning streak alive. More after the jump……
Not to mention, LSU shot an abysmal 36% to Vandy’s 51% tonight. The Tigers also struggled from the line shooting only 68%, and from the 3-point line, 28%.
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Marcus Thornton x Two More Great Games = SEC Player of the Week
After coming up huge once again for the Tigers in two wins last week over Florida and the first at Kentucky in 20 years, Marcus Thornton was awarded SEC Player of the Week for the 2nd time this year. He scored 32 points, had 5 assists and 5 rebounds against the Gators at home on ESPN and had 23 points (15 in 2nd half), 9 rebounds, and 4 assists Saturday in Lexington on CBS. His averages for the week: 27.5 ponts, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists.
One of the assists led to the game winning shot from Tasmin Mitchell against Kentucky. Thornton was the decoy and dribbled off Tasmin’s pick, attracting two defenders, leaving Mitchell open for the three pointer.
Thornton is doing it all for LSU this year including shooting 40% three pointers and 75% free throws, while only sitting for less than 9 minutes a game. There is no doubt that he leaves it all out on the floor each night and now the nation is starting to learn who he is after the two performances that earned him this honor were on national TV. As posted before, Thornton is the same height and build as a few NBA players you might know….. Dwayne Wade, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd…. Anyway, since Thornton will definitely be leaving LSU this year as he is a senior, the NBA is obvious as the next level for him. I think he could make a good fit there. He is very athletic and aggressive for his size. But I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, he still has a few more games to play as a Tiger.
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LSU Basketball Moves Further Up in National Polls, #11 & #12
The Tigers piled on two more wins last week and continued their hot streak in the SEC. Now, LSU has won 13 straight conference games, 10 straight overall and for the 3rd week in a row, rise in the national ranks. The Tigers find themselves at #11 in today’s ESPN/USA Today poll and #12 in the AP poll. See the new polls here.
Some quick poll-analysis: the only teams with higher winning percentages than LSU are UCONN, UNC, Memphis, Pitt, and Oklahoma. The top 10 in both polls are almost identical, however, the 11-20 ranks of both polls involve the same teams, but the order is comparably different. For example, Villanova is #11 in the AP and #16 in the ESPN/USA Today. (more after the jump…)
All that doesn’t really matter, just something I noticed.
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