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Mel Kiper Moves Tyson Jackson Very High
Quick update. As you all know, the NFL Draft is today at 4pm EST. In the latest mock draft by ESPN’s Mel Kiper, he has Tyson going 3rd overall to Kansas City! We’ll keep you updated.
OK…OK…..I’m Sure C. Scott is Fine
Allllright…..Settle down, you fools. It’s April 1st! Everybody else had their jokes today, so we thought we come up with one at the expense of our valued readers. But have no fear, it was even confirmed by a football player I tutor that Charles Scott is well and resting after today’s practice with no broken bones.
We here at lsutopia.com have prayed to the football gods all day long and believe me, I’ve knocked on wood about 50 times today in hopes that nothing happens to #32 or any other player this season. Hopefully it works and we enter the fall with all our players healthy and injury free. A little bit more after the jump….
We had fun at your expense and it may not feel good right now…..but watch THIS!! and you’ll feel better.
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LSU Athletics Facilities vs. Mother Nature
Early Thursday morning LSU’s campus was subjected to the severe weather that rolled through the area. High winds and heavy rain slammed Baton Rouge as most slept……I watched from the front porch. There was constant lightning and loud thunder, so I knew the bulk of the storm was close, but didn’t consider the fact that damage might be widespread.
As students walked to class Thursday, limbs were down, some trees uprooted and insulation was strewn about near the Energy Coast and Environment Building. Wait, wait…….insulation strewn about?!? As I was looking for a parking spot Thursday morning after zig zagging my way to campus avoiding tree-blocked streets, I noticed the stuff on the ground and wondered where it came from. More after the jump……
Turns out that powerful wind gusts ripped part of the indoor practice facility’s roof off and blew the insulation all the way across Nicholson, down Nicholson Dr. Extension and throughout the adjacent parking lots.
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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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Final Tally from LSU Pro Day
TigerBait.com posted the results from Monday’s Pro Day at the LSU indoor practice facility. The thing that really sticks out to me is the speed, strength, and overall athleticism of Kirsten Pittman. I put his stats in bold for you to see. He put up 225 more times than RJF and Big Herm. Pretty cool stuff. Trev Faulk was at the workout in hopes of putting up some impressive numbers and landing a gig on a pro team…however, Trev is trying to play LB in the league and couldnt crack a 5 second 40. OYE. Numbers after the jump.
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Coach Johnson and Marcus Thornton Win Top SEC Honors
For their extraordinary efforts and achievements this year in basketball, Coach Trent Johnson and Marcus Thornton brought home top individual SEC awards. Coach Johnson won the SEC Coach of the Year and Thornton won the SEC Player of the Year.
Both are absolutely deserving of the honors. Johnson took a 13-18 team from a year ago and turned them into the best team in the entire SEC. The Tigers finished the regular season with a 25-6 overall record and a 13-3 conference record. LSU lost its first SEC game to Bama and lost its last two to Vanderbilt and Auburn, but won 13 SEC games in a row in between. Coach had his players focused and playing hard ’til the end in each of those games. He brought out the best in his players and that is what a great coach does. Johnson has now won Coaching honors in three different leagues; SEC, Pac-10 with Stanford, and the WAC with Nevada. More after the jump….
Marcus Thornton averaged 20.9 points per game along with 5.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists,and 1.6 steals. Other players in the league may have had better stats in each category, but Thornton was the best player on the best team and that aways counts a lot in the determination of these awards. It’s the equivalent of the NBA’s MVP award and Thornton certainly was the MVP this year. Countless times, he put the Tigers on his back and took control of games. He averaged 35 minutes per SEC game (reminder: this includes 49 in 2OT vs. State, 2-11-09 as well as his lowest, 23 minutes in the blowout vs. S. Carolina, ). This minutes per SEC game stat is not calculated by anyone, so without doing it for every player, I just calculated Jodie Meeks from UK and foundThornton is behind Meeks by only 1.3 minutes per 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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