Tag: LSU Basketball History

LSU men’s basketball all-time roster: Tiger Legends

The Tigers have had a surprising amount of talent come through their basketball program over the years

March is upon us, and that means that the madness will also return to us soon.

Unfortunately, LSU (in all likelihood) won’t be participating in the festivities after a rough first season under coach [autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag] that featured a 14-game losing streak that lasted from late December until the end of February.

This will be the first NCAA Tournament the Tigers have missed since 2018. Although LSU basketball has, historically, been a bit of an afterthought compared to the more successful football and baseball programs, it’s had a surprising level of consistency.

Aside from several lengthy droughts — most notably in recent years from 1993-00 and 2009-19 (with the exception of 2015) — this team has regularly appeared in the postseason for much of the last several decades, though it is still searching for its first national title. Those teams have, unsurprisingly, featured quite a bit of talent over the years.

With that in mind, we’re taking a crack at piecing together an all-time two-deep LSU basketball roster including one head coach and two assistants. Let’s start things off with the coaching staff, with our first choice likely coming as no surprise.

Pete Maravich’s career scoring average among college basketball’s (likely) unbreakable records

Maravich averaged an unbelievable 44.2 points per game over three seasons at LSU.

As a sport changes and evolves over time, so do the rules and style of play. This can result in largely different statistical outputs when looking at different eras of the game, and it’s where the concept of an “unbreakable record,” one which will likely stand the test of time given the way the modern game is played, comes from.

This is most commonly seen in a sport like baseball, but unbreakable records exist in football and basketball, too. Our Will Rosenblatt already took a look at six unbreakable program records for LSU football, but former Tigers basketball star [autotag]Pete Maravich[/autotag] set an NCAA record that isn’t likely to be broken any time soon.

“Pistol Pete,” as he is affectionately known, averaged an unbelievable 44.2 points per game over three full seasons at LSU. That mark will almost certainly stand the test of time considering what it would take to produce at that level for so long, and it was listed among college basketball’s unbreakable records in an article for College Sports Wire by regional editor Patrick Conn.

With a name like “Pistol” Pete Maravich, you better believe you have to perform on a nightly basis. During his career atLSU, Maravich averaged a blistering 44.2 points over three seasons. That includes 28 50-point games. With the opportunities for players to go the G-League or overseas route, we might not ever see 44.2 points per game again.

That’s a truly unbelievable amount of production and something we are not likely to see again any time soon. I suppose there’s a reason that Maravich later became the namesake for LSU’s basketball arena.

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