I know it's tough to think about women's basketball right now, but I think it's great that the University is backing Augustus so strongly. I can't wait until we launch Early Doucet's Heisman website... www.Seimone33.com Seimone33.com Launched to Promote Player of the Year Candidate 10/26/04 Seimone33.com BATON ROUGE -- LSU launched the website www.seimone33.com to promote Lady Tigers' basketball All-American Seimone Augustus, the athletics department announced on Tuesday. Augustus, a 2004 Kodak All-American, is one of the nation's leading candidates for various 2004-05 National Player of the Year awards, including the Wade Trophy, the Women's Wooden Award and the Naismith Award. Last season Augustus was a finalist for both the Women's Wooden Award and the Wade Trophy. The Baton Rouge native led LSU to the program's first NCAA Final Four in 2003-04 by averaging 19.5 points and pulling down 5.9 rebounds. She also led the NCAA Tournament in total points scored, pouring in 121 in LSU's five tournament games, including 29 points against both top seeded Texas and Georgia to win the West Region. Already this preseason, the 6-1 junior guard has been named first-team All-American by numerous publications, including Lindy's and Street & Smith's. The website, designed by the LSU Athletics Publication's office, features her biography, a photo gallery, video, quotes about Augustus from people around the nation, her game statistics, the 2004-05 Lady Tigers' roster and the schedule. The site will be maintained by the Sports Information Department and will be updated throughout the season. Link: www.seimone33.com
I remember reading Slam magazine like 4 years ago and they were talking about Seimone jumping to the WNBA out of HS (I don't think thats been done by a college player, much less a high schooler). At the time (living in North Carolina) I was hoping she would come to Duke, but I'm glad LSU got her, shes a program changer. But, its still women's basketball.
Very true. Bill Simmons of ESPN.com (I think it was Bill Simmons) said in one of his articles that every man in America would rather find $5 on the sidewalk than have their city's WNBA team win a championship - one of the funniest things I have ever read...
