lsu tigers history
lsu tigers history
It’s basketball on the Bayou, and you can have your fanny pasted into one of the 14,000 seats at LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center with our vast selection of LSU basketball tickets. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Tigers basketball team puts on a thrilling show for fans from all over as they square off against the other elite teams in the SEC Conference. Along with teams like the Kentucky Wildcats, the Georgia Bulldogs, and the Florida Gators, the Tigers have been perennial contenders in the SEC tournament as well as in the NCAA Tournament, but with just over 14,000 seats per game at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, the opportunities to see them live are hard to come by if you don’t get a hold of your tickets well in advance of game day.
The LSU Tigers have had two of the most famous basketball players to play in college and then move onto the NBA with great success. “Pistol” Pete Maravish was an LSU Tiger and in his three years there, he averaged the NCAA all time scoring average of 44.2 points per game in his 83 games with the Tigers. The other, more recent standout is NBA Center Shaquille O’Neal, who has played for the Orlando Magic, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat. While playing for LSU, Shaq was a two-time first team All-American, a two time SEC player of the year and the national player of the year for 1991. Another LSU record holder, Shaq holds the NCAA record for shots blocked in a game when he made an amazing seventeen blocks against Mississippi State during a game on December 3, 1990.
With their exciting brand of basketball bringing crowds to the courts in Louisiana, the Tigers are turning heads and selling tickets at a sell out pace well before game day, and their fans can not get enough of their home town heroes. Alumni and sports fans in the area are extremely loyal to their team, and the Tigers basketball team has definitely given them something to be loyal about with a resurgence of competitive games filled with many talented players that have made blockbuster careers both in college and in the NBA as well. So, if you want to see some of the most exciting basketball action in the SEC, then you need to grab some LSU Tigers basketball tickets and then get yourself to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center before tip off on game day.
