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LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers
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The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University, a public four-year coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Southeastern Conference, LSU fields teams in 21 varsity sports. The 9 mens teams play baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field. The 11 womens teams play basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, LSU athletics has many traditions associated with its sports programs. Based on winning percentage, the athletics program is consistently one of the best in the nation. LSU has also won 47 team national championships, placing them 5th all-time in total national championships, traditional rivals in football include long running rivalries with the Ole Miss Rebels and Tulane Green Wave. More current football rivalries include the Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Mississippi State Bulldogs and its official team nickname is the Fighting Tigers, Tigers or Lady Tigers. The Lady Tigers nickname is used only in sports that have teams for men and women—specifically basketball, cross country, golf, swimming & diving, tennis. In 1955, the LSU fourth-quarter club added the word Fighting to the nickname thus becoming Fighting Tigers, the nickname was first coined in 1896 after an undefeated football season. The nickname is a throwback to the Civil War fame of a New Orleans infantry company and they fought so fiercely in General Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia that they, and eventually all other Louisiana troops, became known as Louisiana Tigers. The schools mascot is Mike the Tiger and the school colors are royal purple. Keeping with the French/Cajun character of South Louisiana, LSU support can be seen by its spelling of Go Tigers as Geaux Tigers. LSU sponsors teams in nine mens and twelve womens NCAA sanctioned sports,43 were bestowed by the NCAA, as the NCAA does not award college football national championships at the Division I FBS level. LSU ranks in a tie for sixth all-time in total NCAA championships, ^ The NCAA does not award a national championship in Division I FBS football. Instead, polls were used to determine national champions, in this case, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, the two biggest selectors at the time, awarded LSU the national championship. This championship is not recognized by the NCAA because the championship was won without participating in an NCAA recognized event or tournament, ^^ The NCAA does not award a national championship in Division I-FBS football. In 1998 major Division I-FBS conferences came together to create the Bowl Championship Series in an effort to establish a legitimate national champion. LSU won the 2003 BCS national championship and the 2007 BCS national championship and these championships are not recognized by the NCAA because the championships were won without participating in an NCAA recognized event or tournament
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Louisiana State University
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Louisiana State University is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, LSU is the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System. In 2015, the university enrolled over 26,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools, several of LSUs graduate schools, such as the E. J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received recognition in their respective fields of study. LSUs athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports, and is a member of the NCAA, the university is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College had its origin in land grants made by the United States government in 1806,1811. It was founded as an academy and is still today steeped in military tradition. In 1853, the Louisiana General Assembly established the Seminary of Learning of the State of Louisiana near Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Modeled initially after Virginia Military Institute, the institution opened with five professors and nineteen cadets on January 2,1860, the original location of the Old LSU Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On January 26,1861, after only a year at the helm, the school closed on June 30,1861, with the start of the American Civil War. During the course of the war, the university reopened briefly in April 1863, the losses sustained by the institution during the Union occupation were heavy, and after 1863 the seminary remained closed for the remainder of the Civil War. Following the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865 and these cannons had been captured from Confederate forces after the close of the war and had been used during the initial firing upon Fort Sumter in April 1861. The cannons are still displayed in front of LSUs Military Science/Aerospace Studies Building, the seminary officially reopened its doors on October 2,1865, only to be burned October 15,1869. On November 1,1869, the institution resumed its exercises in Baton Rouge, in 1870, the name of the institution was officially changed to Louisiana State University. It temporarily opened in New Orleans, June 1,1874 and this prompted the final name change for the university to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. On June 7,1925, Oscar B, turner, a professor of agronomy, was murdered by an axe-wielding assailant on campus. On April 30,1926, the present LSU campus was formally dedicated, prior to this, LSU utilized the quarters of the Institute for the Deaf, Mute, and Blind. Land for the present campus was purchased in 1918, construction started in 1922, the campus was originally designed for 3000 students, but was cut back due to budget problems
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Baton Rouge is the capital of the U. S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city. It forms the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. As the Capital City, Baton Rouge is the hub for Louisiana. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, is also the second-largest in Louisiana, the urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants. Baton Rouge is an industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth largest in the United States in terms of tonnage shipped, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding, in addition, the city built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. The city is a rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations. It was ruled by seven different governments, French, British, and Spanish in the era, West Floridian, United States territory and state, Confederate. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000 –6500 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. Eastern Muskogean began to diversify internally in the first half of the 1st millennium AD, at the time, the region appeared to be occupied by a collection of moderately-sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups. French explorer Sieur dIberville led a party up the Mississippi River in 1699. The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayogoula tribal hunting grounds, see also Red Sticks for the ceremonial use of red sticks among the Muscogee. The location of the red pole was presumably at Scotts Bluff and it was reportedly a 30-foot-high painted pole adorned with fish bones. The settlement of Baton Rouge by Europeans began in 1721 when a military post was established by French colonists. Since European settlement, Baton Rouge has been governed by France, Britain, Spain, Louisiana, the Republic of West Florida, the Confederate States, and the United States. In 1755, when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canadas Maritime provinces were driven into exile by British forces, popularly known as Cajuns, the descendants of the Acadians maintained a separate culture. During the first half of the 19th century, the city grew steadily as the result of steamboat trade, Baton Rouge was incorporated in 1817
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Bob Pettit
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Robert Lee Bob Pettit Jr. is an American retired professional basketball player. He played 11 seasons in the NBA, all with the Milwaukee/St and he was the first recipient of the NBAs Most Valuable Player Award. He also won the NBA All-Star Game MVP award four times and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970. Pettits basketball career had humble beginnings, at Baton Rouge High School, he was cut from the varsity basketball team as both a freshman and sophomore. He played church league basketball as a sophomore and grew five inches in less than a year and his father, Sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, pushed him to practice in the backyard of the Kemmerly house until he improved his skills. It worked, Pettit became a starter and made the All-City prep team as a junior, as a 6-7 senior, he led Baton Rouge High to its first State Championship in over 20 years. Pettit was then selected to play in a North–South all-star game at Murray, after high school, Pettit had scholarship offers from 14 universities but he accepted a scholarship to play at Louisiana State University. He was a three-time All-Southeastern Conference selection and a two-time All-American as a member of the LSU mens basketball team, during those three years, Pettit averaged 27.8 points per game. He was also a member of the Zeta Zeta Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at LSU, Pettit made his varsity debut at LSU in 1952. He led the SEC in scoring for his first of three seasons, averaging 25.5 points per game. During his junior year, Pettit helped the Tigers sail through a 23-game regular-season schedule with one loss. A clean sweep of SEC Conference opponents became LSUs second SEC Title and he averaged 24.9 points and 13.9 rebounds per game for the 1953 season. He was honored with selections to both the All-SEC and All-American teams, Pettit averaged 31.4 points and 17.3 rebounds per game during his senior year and once again led LSU to an SEC Championship and garnered All-SEC and All-American honors. He set a scoring record of 60 points against Louisiana College in his second game. Pettit also was the player in major-college basketball history to average more than 30 points a game. In 1954, his number 50 was retired at LSU and he was the first Tiger athlete in any sport to receive this distinction. In 1999, he was named Living Legend for LSU at the SEC Basketball Tournament and he is a member of the LSU Hall of Fame. Bob Pettit Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is named after him, in 1954, the Milwaukee Hawks selected Pettit second in the first round of the NBA Draft after the Baltimore Bullets selection of Frank Selvy
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Shaquille O'Neal
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Shaquille Rashaun Shaq ONeal, nicknamed Shaq, is a retired American professional basketball player and former rapper who is currently an analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. Listed at 7 ft 1 in tall and weighing 325 pounds, ONeal played for six teams throughout his 19-year NBA career. Following his career at Louisiana State University, ONeal was drafted by the Orlando Magic with the first overall pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He quickly became one of the best centers in the league, winning Rookie of the Year in 1992–93, after four years with the Magic, ONeal signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Lakers. They won three championships in 2000,2001, and 2002. Amid tension between ONeal and Kobe Bryant, ONeal was traded to the Miami Heat in 2004, midway through the 2007–2008 season he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. After a season-and-a-half with the Suns, ONeal was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009–10 season, ONeal played for the Boston Celtics in the 2010–11 season before retiring. He is one of three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year. He ranks 7th all-time in points scored, 5th in field goals, 13th in rebounds, largely due to his ability to dunk the basketball, ONeal also ranks 3rd all-time in field goal percentage. ONeal was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, in addition to his basketball career, ONeal has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. He has appeared in films and has starred in his own reality shows, Shaqs Big Challenge. He currently hosts The Big Podcast with Shaq, ONeal was born on March 6,1972 in Newark, New Jersey, to Lucille ONeal and Joe Toney, an All-State guard in high school who was offered a basketball scholarship to play at Seton Hall. Toney struggled with addiction and was imprisoned for drug possession when ONeal was an infant. Upon his release, he did not resume a place in ONeals life and instead agreed to relinquish his rights to ONeals stepfather, Phillip A. Harrison. ONeal remained estranged from his father for decades, ONeal had not spoken with Toney or expressed an interest in establishing a relationship. On his 1994 rap album, Shaq Fu, The Return, ONeal voiced his feelings of disdain for Toney in the song Biological Didnt Bother, dismissing him with the line Phil is my father. However, ONeals feelings toward Toney mellowed in the years following Harrisons death in 2013, ONeal credits the Boys and Girls Club of America in Newark with giving him a safe place to play and keeping him off the streets. It gave me something to do, he said, id just go there to shoot
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Seimone Augustus
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Seimone Delicia Augustus is an American professional womens basketball player with the Minnesota Lynx of the Womens National Basketball Association, Dynamo Kursk and the U. S. national team. Augustus was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she is the daughter of Seymore, before her freshman year in high school, Augustus was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Women, with a headline that asked, Is She the Next Michael Jordan. Augustus played for Capitol High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and she participated in the 2002 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored fourteen points, and earned MVP honors. The Lady Tigers however, never advanced beyond the semi-final round and she averaged 19.3 points,5.2 rebounds and 2 assists per game in her collegiate career. During her final year, she won the Lowes Senior CLASS Award, Augustus graduated from Louisiana State University in 2006. Her uniform number was retired by LSU on January 9,2010, Augustus had also played with future WNBA teammate Sylvia Fowles during her collegiate career at LSU. Source Augustus was drafted No.1 overall in 2006 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx, selected as a reserve for the 2006 WNBA All Star Game at Madison Square Garden, Augustus led the West squad with 16 points and won the Skills Competition the previous evening. Augustus finished 2006 second to the Mercurys Diana Taurasi in scoring at 21.9 points per game, only one player, scored more points in a single season. In addition, she finished fifth in free throw percentage, on August 20, Augustus was named the 2006 WNBA Rookie of the Year. The former LSU star improved to a career-high 22.6 points per game in 2007, an All Star for the second straight year, Augustus finished second to Seattles Lauren Jackson in scoring average and played in all 34 games. The Lynx however, finished 10–24 tied with Los Angeles Sparks for the leagues worst record, in June 2009, Seimone suffered a season-ending injury, a torn ACL, against the Phoenix Mercury. Augustuss return in 2010 was derailed by medical issues as well, as she was forced to undergo surgery to remove fibroid tumors, Augustus had attempted to postpone surgery until after the season, but the pain was too difficult to play through. Despite the setback, Augustus returned to play the final 25 games of the season, Augustus was finally back to full strength in 2011, and a part of a potent Lynx team that included a supporting cast of Lindsay Whalen, Rebekkah Brunson and newly acquired rookie Maya Moore. Augustus led the team in scoring and served as the lead defender as the Lynx rolled to a league best 27-7 record. Augustus also made her first all-star game since 2007 and she finished eighth in MVP voting, and was named Second Team All-WNBA for the third time in her career, and the first since 2007. Augustus elevated her game in the playoffs and she led the Lynx in scoring in five of their eight games, and scored the second-highest number of points in WNBA Finals history –36 – in game two of the 2011 WNBA Finals. The Lynx swept the Atlanta Dream in the round, with Augustus being unanimously named Finals MVP. The Lynx were not a flash in the pan, they would return to the finals the two seasons, losing to the Indiana Fever in 2012, and defeating Atlanta again in 2013
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Sylvia Fowles
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Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Womens National Basketball Association. Fowles, who joined the Lynx in July 2015, was MVP of the 2015 WNBA Finals and she is 6 ft 6 in tall and weighs 200 lbs. She was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Arrittio Fowles and she has three brothers, Walter, Jeremy, Morris, and one sister, Dorothy. Sylvia grew up in some of the neighborhoods of Miami-Dade, including Coconut Grove, Little Haiti. She attended Little River Elementary School, Horace Mann Middle School, Miami Edison Senior and she also led Edison Senior High School to two state championships before transferring to Gulliver Preparatory School. Fowles averaged 20.6 points and 11.6 rebounds at Gulliver, Fowles was also named a McDonalds All-American. Fowles was named a WBCA All-American and she participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored fifteen points, and earned MVP honors. Fowles played in all 36 of LSUs games as a freshman, as a sophomore, she started all 35 games and again helped the team reach the Final Four. In her junior year, she led LSU to the Final Four again, Fowles was named to the pre-season All-American team prior to her senior season. She dunked the ball in the Lady Tigers game against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on November 21,2007, in December 2007, Fowles suffered a partial tear of the meniscus of her right knee during a game against the University of Miami. She then underwent surgery and missed weeks of play. Fowles was named the 2008 SEC Player of the Year, during a March 24,2008 NCAA Tournament game, she broke the all-time SEC record for career rebounds. She led LSU to the Final Four again in her senior year, Fowles finished additional academic credits after beginning her professional basketball career and received her bachelors degree from LSU in the spring of 2009. During her college career at LSU, Fowles had also played with future WNBA teammate Seimone Augustus, source Fowles was selected 2nd overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2008 WNBA Draft. After being drafted second overall, she averaged 10.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per game in her season with the Chicago Sky. Fowles dunked on her second attempt during the 2009 WNBA All-Star Game while representing the Eastern Conference after everyone on both teams cleared out of her way and her first attempt clanged off the bottom of the rim. The game took place on July 25,2009 at Mohegan Sun and she is the third WNBA player to dunk in an all star game, following Michelle Snow in 2006 and Lisa Leslie in 2005. In the 2014 season, Fowles averaged a double-double in points and rebounds for the consecutive season
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LSU Tigers football
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The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, LSU ended the 2015 season with 770 victories, the 12th most in NCAA Division I FBS history, and the 4th most of any SEC team, behind Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Tigers also have the 11th highest winning percentage among teams with at least 1,000 games played, LSU has won three National Championships in 1958,2003 and 2007. LSU has been featured in a game with ESPN College GameDay on location a total of 25 times, the Tigers have now made at least one appearance on the show every season since 2003. In recent years, LSU has had a number of players drafted into the National Football League. As of the beginning of the 2016 NFL season, there were 42 former LSU players on active rosters in the NFL, Louisiana State University played its first football game in school history on November 25,1893, losing to rival Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest in Louisiana. The game sparked a rivalry between the Tigers and the Green Wave that has lasted generations, the Tigers were coached by university professor Dr. Charles E. Coates, known for his work in the chemistry of sugar. Future Louisiana governor Ruffin G. Pleasant was the quarterback and captain of the LSU team, in the first game against Tulane, LSU football players wore purple and gold ribbons on their uniforms. According to legend, purple and gold were chosen because they were Mardi Gras colors, the rules of play in 1893 were more like rugby than what might be considered modern football. LSU achieved its first victory by beating Natchez Athletic Club 26–0 in 1894, samuel Marmaduke Dinwidie Clark has the honor of scoring the very first touchdown in LSU history. The first football game played on the LSU campus was at State Field on December 3,1894, LSUs only touchdown in that game was scored by the head coach, Albert Simmons. This was the first year of play for William S. Slaughter who lettered as an end for 5 years, Slaughter was LSUs first five time football letterman. By 1895, LSU had its first win in Baton Rouge, Coach Allen Jeardeau returned for his second but final year at LSU in 1897 for two games in Baton Rouge. A yellow fever outbreak throughout the South caused the postponement of LSUs classes starting, another outbreak of yellow fever similar to the one in 1897 caused LSU to play only one game in 1898. By the time LSU was able to play its game of the season, Allen Jeardeau had departed from the school as head football coach. The job of coach then fell to the captain, Edmond Chavanne. New coach John P. Gregg led the Tigers to a 1–4 season in 1899, the only wins were in an exhibition game against a high school team—which LSU does not officially record as a win—and against rival, Tulane. Chavanne was rehired in 1900, posting a 2–2 record and he was replaced by W. S. Borland as head coach in 1901, who led the team to a successful 5–1 season
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Y. A. Tittle
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Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr. better known as Y. A. Tittle, is a former professional American football quarterback and he played in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Colts, after spending two seasons with the Colts in the All-America Football Conference. Known for his competitiveness, leadership, and striking profile, Tittle was the centerpiece of several prolific offenses throughout his professional career from 1948 to 1964. Tittle played college football for Louisiana State University, where he was a two-time All-Southeastern Conference quarterback for the LSU Tigers football team. As a junior, he was named the most valuable player of the infamous 1947 Cotton Bowl Classic—also known as the Ice Bowl—a scoreless tie between the Tigers and Arkansas Razorbacks in a snowstorm. After college, he was drafted in the 1947 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, with the Colts, Tittle was named the AAFC Rookie of the Year in 1948 after leading the team to the AAFC playoffs. After back-to-back one-win seasons, the Colts franchise folded, which allowed Tittle to be drafted in the 1951 NFL Draft by the 49ers. Through ten seasons in San Francisco, he was invited to four Pro Bowls, led the league in touchdown passes in 1955, considered washed-up, the 34-year-old Tittle was traded to the Giants following the 1960 season. Over the next four seasons, he won three NFL MVP awards, twice set the league record for touchdown passes, and led the Giants to three straight NFL championship games. Although he was never able to deliver a championship to the team, in his final season, Tittle was photographed bloodied and kneeling down in the end zone after a tackle by a defender left him helmetless. The photograph has become one of the most iconic images in North American sports history and he retired as the NFLs all-time leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns, attempts, completions, and games played. Tittle was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971, born and raised in Marshall, Texas, Yelberton Abraham Tittle aspired to be a quarterback from a young age. He spent hours in his throwing a football through a tire swing, emulating his neighbor and boyhood idol. Tittle played high school football at Marshall High School, in his senior year the team posted an undefeated record and reached the state finals. After a recruiting battle between Louisiana State University and the University of Texas, Tittle chose to attend LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and he was part of a successful 1944 recruiting class under head coach Bernie Moore that included halfbacks Jim Cason, Dan Sandifer, and Ray Coates. Freshmen were eligible to play on the varsity during World War II and he later said the finest moment of his four years at LSU was beating Tulane as a freshman, a game in which he set a school record with 238 passing yards. It was one of two games the Tigers won that season, Moore started Tittle at tailback in the single-wing formation his first year, but moved him to quarterback in the T formation during his sophomore season. As a junior in 1946, Tittles three touchdown passes in a 41–27 rout of rival Tulane helped ensure LSU a spot in the Cotton Bowl Classic
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LSU Tigers baseball
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The LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference and it is one of the elite college baseball programs in the nation, ranking seventh all-time with 17 College World Series appearances and second all-time with six national championships. The Tigers play home games on LSUs campus at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field, during the programs first thirty seasons, LSU had a total of 15 head coaches. No coachs tenure lasted longer than two seasons, with the exception of C. C, stroud, who was head coach for eight seasons. Stroud coached LSU from 1914–1921 and had a record of 73–58–5. The program won at least ten games during four of his eight seasons as head coach, in 1927, Harry Rabenhorst became head baseball coach and became the longest tenured head baseball coach in LSU history. Rabenhorst began his career at LSU in 1925 as the coach of the mens basketball team. As baseball coach, he won two SEC baseball titles and was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1939 and 1946, Rabenhorst coached the baseball team from 1927 until 1942 when he left to serve in World War II. When he returned, he coached the baseball team from 1946 until 1956. He finished his coaching career with a record of 220–226–3. Later, as an athletic department administrator, he became the athletic director in 1967. In 1938, LSUs new baseball stadium, referred to as either LSU Diamond or LSU Varsity Baseball Field, the stadium was later renamed Alex Box Stadium for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman who was killed in North Africa during World War II. A. L. Swanson During Rabenhorsts absence serving in World War II, the Tigers won the 1943 SEC Championship under Swanson. Raymond Ray Didier was head coach at LSU for 7 seasons from 1957–1963 and he had an overall record of 104–79. He coached the 1961 team to the SEC championship and he left LSU to become Athletic director and head baseball coach at Nicholls State University. From 1964–1983, LSU was led by three head coaches, from 1964–1965, Jim Waldrop coached LSU for two seasons and had a 17–24 record. Jim Smith was head coach for thirteen seasons from 1966–1978 and he finished with an overall record of 238–251. When he left LSU after the 1978 season, he had the most wins of any coach in program history
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LSU Tigers basketball
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The LSU Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I mens college basketball. The Tigers are currently coached by Will Wade and they play their home games in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team participates in the Southeastern Conference, LSUs lone defeat came to the Southwest Conference co-champion Rice Owls by a score of 56–47 in Houston in one of LSUs three road games. LSU has claimed a championship for the 1935 season. Rabenhorst also led the Tigers to the 1953 Final Four with a team that finished 22–3 overall and 13–0 in conference play, from 1957–1966, LSU was coached by Jay McCreary and Frank Truitt. They combined for a record of 88–135, significant players included George Nattin, Jr. Press Maravich was head coach from 1966–1972. He had a record of 76–86 at LSU. He led the team to three winning seasons, but did not win an SEC championship or make an NCAA tournament appearance and his 1969–70 team advanced to the NIT Final Four. This era is best known for the exploits of Press Maravichs son, Pete dominated at the collegiate level averaging 44.2 points per game and was named National Player of the Year in 1970. Dale Brown was head LSU basketball coach for 25 years from 1972–1997, during his time at LSU, he led the basketball team to two final fours, four elite 8, five sweet sixteen and thirteen NCAA tournament appearances. He also led the Tigers to four regular season SEC championships, in 1996–97, Dale Brown signed Baton Rouge high school phenom Lester Earl. Earl played just 11 games at LSU before he was suspended and transferred to the University of Kansas soon afterward, while at Kansas, Earl said that an LSU assistant coach gave him money when he was at LSU. The NCAA quickly began an investigation and it found no evidence that Brown or his assistants paid Earl. However, it did find that a former booster paid Earl about $5,000 while he was attending LSU, the basketball team was placed on probation in 1998. In September 2007, Lester Earl issued an apology to Brown, then-assistant head coach Johnny Jones, Earl now claims that the NCAA pressured him into making false claims against Dale Brown or else he would lose years of NCAA eligibility. Earl said, I was pressured into telling them SOMETHING, I was 19 years old at that time. The NCAA intimidated me, manipulated me into making up things and they told me if we dont find any dirt on Coach Brown you wont be allowed to play but one more year at Kansas
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Pete Maravich
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Peter Press Pistol Pete Maravich was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University and played for three NBA teams until injuries forced his retirement in 1980. He is still the all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer with 3,667 points scored, all of his accomplishments were achieved before the three-point line and shot clock were introduced to NCAA basketball and despite being unable to play varsity as a freshman under then-NCAA rules. One of the youngest players ever inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in an April 2010 interview, Hall of Fame player John Havlicek said that the best ball-handler of all time was Pete Maravich. Pete Maravich was born to Petar Press Maravich and Helen Gravor Maravich in Aliquippa, Maravich amazed his family and friends with his basketball abilities from an early age. He enjoyed a close but demanding father–son relationship that motivated him toward achievement, Maravichs father, Petar Press Maravich, the son of Serbian immigrants and a former professional player-turned-coach, showed him the fundamentals starting when he was seven years old. Obsessively, Maravich spent hours practicing ball control tricks, passes, head fakes, Maravich played high school varsity ball at Daniel High School in Central, South Carolina, a year before being old enough to attend the school. While at Daniel from 1961 to 1963, Maravich participated in the schools first-ever game against a team from an all-black school, in 1963 his father departed from his position as head basketball coach at Clemson University and joined the coaching staff at North Carolina State University. The Maravich familys subsequent move to Raleigh, North Carolina, allowed Pete to attend Needham B and his high school years also saw the birth of his famous moniker. From his habit of shooting the ball from his side, as if he were holding a revolver, from there Pistol Maravich graduated from Needham B. Broughton High School in 1965 and then attended Edwards Military Institute, at that time NCAA rules prohibited first-year students from playing at the varsity level, which forced Maravich to play on the freshman team. In his first game, Maravich put up 50 points,14 rebounds and 11 assists against Southeastern Louisiana College. In only three years playing on the varsity team at LSU, Maravich scored 3,667 points—1,138 of those in 1968,1,148 in 1969, and 1,381 in 1970—while averaging 43.8,44.2, and 44.5 points per game. For his collegiate career, the 65 guard averaged 44.2 points per game in 83 contests, during this first year, Maravich scored 741 points in freshman competition. Second, Maravich played before the advent of the three-point line and this significant difference has raised speculation regarding just how much higher his records would be, given his long-range shooting ability and how such a component might have altered his play. Writing for ESPN. com, Bob Carter stated, Though Maravich played before freshmen were eligible for the varsity and before the 3-point shot was established, third, The shot clock was not instituted until fifteen years after Maravich left LSU. The shot clock speeds up play, mandates an additional number of field goal attempts, eliminates stall tactics, had the shot clock been in effect during Maravichs career at LSU, he would have scored many more points per game. More than 40 years later, however, many of his NCAA, Though he never appeared in the NCAA tournament, Maravich played a key role in turning around a lackluster program that had posted a 3–20 record in the season prior to his arrival
