LSU Tigers basketball
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| University | Louisiana State University | |||
| Conference | SEC | |||
| Location | Baton Rouge, LA | |||
| Head coach | Johnny Jones (5th year) | |||
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Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Capacity: 13,472) |
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| Nickname | Tigers | |||
| Colors | Purple and Gold |
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| NCAA Tournament Final Four | ||||
| 1953, 1981, 1986, 2006 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1953, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 2006 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1953, 1954, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 2000, 2006 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1953, 1954, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2015 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1935, 1953, 1954, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1991, 2000, 2006, 2009 | ||||
The LSU Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I men's college basketball. The team is coached by Johnny Jones. LSU has enjoyed recent success, including a Final Four run in the 2005–06 season. Past coaches include Trent Johnson, John Brady, Press Maravich, Dale Brown and Harry Rabenhorst. 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.
LSU has played in 4 Final Fours in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament. The Tigers are 0-6 all-time in the Final Four, losing the third place game in 1953 and 1981. The third place game was discontinued after LSU's 78-74 loss to Virginia in 1981.
LSU has won a total of ten conference championships and one conference tournament championship since becoming a founding member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 1933.
The 1935 Tigers – coached by Harry Rabenhorst, and keyed by the play of first LSU All-American Sparky Wade – finished the season at 14–1, defeating a Pittsburgh Panthers team that shared the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championship and finished with an 18–6 overall record in the American Legion Bowl by a score of 41–37 in their final game of the season. LSU's lone defeat came to the Southwest Conference co-champion Rice Owls by a score of 56–47 in Houston in one of LSU's three road games. LSU has claimed a national championship for the 1935 season (pre-NCAA Tournament), but not on the basis of any determination by an external selector. (LSU is the only school that officially claims a national championship on the basis of a win in the American Legion Bowl, an event that made no claim to determine a national champion. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively named the 19–1 NYU Violets its national champion for the 1934–35 season. The retroactive Premo-Porretta Power Poll also ranked the Violets as its 1935 national champion. The Premo-Porretta poll ranked LSU fifth, behind second-ranked Richmond (20–0), third-ranked Duquesne (18–1), and fourth-ranked Kentucky (19–2); the poll ranked Pittsburgh—LSU's final opponent–16th nationally.)
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