2012-2013 LSU Men's Basketball General Discussion Thread

Yes, tremendous win! And Tigers continue their "learning how to win" journey. Let's be fair though Moo St missed a ton of free throws and Lsu could have easily lost. What we are seeing is certain players on this LSU team starting to "believe".

Hickey and O'Bryant are starting to play like All-Sec players and CJJ is starting to find his rhythm with play calls.

It's going to be exciting down the stretch here folks! I'll be watching what the PMAC attendance numbers are this week!

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2013/02/lsu_stuns_mississippi_state_on.html#incart_river

I know there will be at least 4 people here. For the first time in 5 years I found three other people who weren't my wife and kids that wanted to go to the game.

Hopefully the PMAC power grid can handle all 4 of you.

Maybe because LSU went 6 years without beating a ranked SEC team. Also not seen for a long, long time, a Top 10 recruiting class waiting in the wings. JJ is doing his job.

We must have defeated a ranked SEC team in 09. I'm damn near sure statw was ranked one of the two times we beat them and maybe UTK.

C'Mon, let's not be silly... LSU beat Miss St in overtime, when they were ranked (#23), last year. That should have been clear when the tape of Hickey's last shot this past weekend was eerily similar to last year's shot. PMAC was about 64% full for that game (paid attendance of 8565). Let's not make it out to be worse than it was. Our teams have had up and down seasons for sure, but the fans have to own their lackluster support. We had only a few more (i.e., 8630) in PMAC when LSU beat #10 ranked Marquette earlier that season.

Hopefully these next few weeks exceeds these very modest targets. I do see a ton of student promotions being run, and folks like sponsors (Academy) are doing their part.

LSUsupaFan, way to go!

Feb. 24, 2008 LSU beat #3 Florida.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/men/gameflash/2013/01/30/81136_recap.html

Nope, unranked Miss St. go look.

I did. See: http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205380233&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=5200

According to LSU and video of Hickey's play... MSU was ranked 23rd. Probably you're speaking to the discrepancy between an ESPN ranking or AP, but that's besides the point. MSU was a ranked team for many parts of last year, and LSU had a 60% turn-out for the game. Pretty unacceptable if you ask me, but we've been down that debate before.

Nevertheless, some of the optimism of next year and the fact that CJJ's bringing a pro-LSU, hometown feel back to the PMAC, I'm hoping for attendance to hopefully be above 9K averages for our 2012-13 SEC season, leading to 10k+ averages for next year. If you look back at Trent and Brady's averages, the high points were probably right around 10K averages (2009 season for Trent, and 2006 season for Brady), which is still pretty short of the 13,400 seat PMAC capacity. In the Daddy Dale years, the higher averages were probably in that 12K ranges in a slightly larger PMAC capacity of closer to 14K.

It may not quite happen this year but I think the basketball program is very close to being fun again. I'm talking sell-out crowds, annual trips to the big dance, and an exciting brand of basketball. College basketball is such a great environment and LSU fans will get behind a winner.

They are building it and we will come.