The glue guy. That’s Garrett Temple’s answer when asked to describe his basketball career that started as a recruiting afterthought for state champ University High, as a defensive stopper for LSU’s 2006 Final Four team […]
A summation of LSU’s 2019-20 basketball season to date: A 5-2 November of nobodies. December’s downer of 3-2. Jetting through January 8-0. A 4-5 February fade. Yet, added all together it’s 20-9 overall and 11-5 […]
Florida scored the game’s first nine points against lethargic LSU Wednesday night and led from start to finish in a 81-66 victory over the visiting Tigers. LSU (19-9, 10-5) slipped from a second-place tie in […]
There was never a doubt about the career path Kevin Faulk wanted to follow. “Coaching is one of the things I’ve always wanted to do,” Faulk once said. “Not too many freshmen know what they […]
Fifty years after he ascended to the pinnacle of the NCAA basketball career scoring chart, Peter Press Maravich is suspiciously absent from his university’s athletic Hall of Fame. As former Chancellor Mike Martin once lamented […]
Finally, it came together. The smothering defensive rotation. The relentless offensive rebounding. The aggressive drives to the basket. The appropriately timed dagger 3-pointers. All things LSU did that had the Tigers on top of the […]
It is my ritual at every LSU home football game. Before entering the Paul Manasseh Press Box, named in honor of the school’s sports information director from 1971 to 1983, I stop briefly in front […]
LSU got its now-traditional head-scratching midweek loss out the way early. On the road for the first time this season, the Tigers fell 4-2 to Nicholls on Wednesday night in Thibodaux. Nicholls starter Tyler Theriot […]
No, this wasn’t typical Kentucky, a team often so talented it can name how many points it wants to score. In a college basketball season of mediocrity or parity, depending where you sit, sometimes simply […]
Even when Kentucky doesn’t quite seem like Kentucky – meaning the perennial SEC basketball power is regarded as a Final Four favorite loaded with NBA lottery picks – the rest of the league usually has […]
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