Season Review INTRO THIS IS LSU TIGERS COACHES REVIEW PREVIEW RECORDS HISTORY LSU MEDIA Glen Davis Tasmin Mitchell Davis was unable to recreate his Mitchell continued his No matter how something is planned, in the end it sophomore first-team All-American development as a strong all-around season of 2006, but playing with basketball player, learning to play doesn't always come out as expected. injuries and having to play with the both inside and outside in LSU's burden of intense media pressure, offense. Despite having to learn a LSU's 2006-07 season wandered through some he still earned All-SEC honors as new style, he continued to be a unseen peaks and valleys that caused the season to not he finished third in the league in major scoring component for the scoring at 17.7 points per game and Tigers, averaging 14.5 points per be as successful as planned or hoped. Along the way, was the league's leading rebounder game and 5.9 rebounds a game. for the second straight year at 10.4 He was 12th in the conference in the games the team had become known for finding the boards a game, eighth best in the scoring and 13th in the league in nation. rebounding. way to win suddenly starting going the other way in the Davis became the latest big Mitchell has started all 68 man developed by Coach John games in the first two years of his final seconds. A 17-15, 5-11 record came about as LSU Brady to advance to the National career and has 877 points, 123 fell in six games by four points or less. Three times Basketball Association as he was short of becoming the next LSU drafted after his junior year by the player over 1,000 career points. last-second shots doomed the Tigers. Injuries cost Boston Celtics. Mitchell earned All-District and All- Louisiana honors. He led the Tigers various Tigers practice time and hurt the continuity of in scoring in 11 games this past season. practice time in preparation for games. These were among the things that kept LSU from a 20-win season, another break-even or winning season in the league and post-season play. But there were some good things that happened along the way as players tried to adjust through some situations that will help those that return grow in experience for the coming year: Tasmin Mitchell 92 2007-2008 LSUBASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE Season Review INTRO 2006-07 LSU Leaders SCORING AVERAGE LSU’s 2006-07 Season Honors THIS IS LSU Glen Davis 17.7 TIGERS Tasmin Mitchell 14.5 Glen Davis COACHES Terry Martin 10.5 First Team All-SEC, Coaches Garrett Temple 8.6 REVIEW First Team All-SEC, AP Darnell Lazare 7.4 First Team All-Louisiana PREVIEW REBOUNDING AVERAGE Honorable Mention All-America, AP RECORDS Glen Davis 10.4 Fourth Team All-American, HISTORY Tasmin Mitchell 5.9 CollegeHoops.net Darnell Lazare 4.5 Mid-Season 30, Naismith Award LSU Magnum Rolle 4.1 National Final 22 Ballot, Wooden Award MEDIA Garrett Temple 3.7 First Team, NABC District 8 FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE First Team USBWA District 7 Chris Johnson 55.8 Darnell Lazare 55.6 Tasmin Mitchell Glen Davis 48.4 First Team, All-Louisiana Tasmin Mitchell 46.6 First Team, NABC District 8 Magnum Rolle 43.1 3-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE Garrett Temple Terry Martin 52 Defensive All-American, Tasmin Mitchell 41 Collegeinsider.com Garrett Temple 35 Glen Davis 17 Darnell Lazare Dameon Mason 9 SEC Community Service team member Garrett Temple 3-POINT FG PERCENTAGE Alex Farrer Terry Martin 38.8 Garrett Temple Streaks Tasmin Mitchell 37.6 SEC Academic Honor Roll Ben Voogd 35.7 Temple continued to be the LSU continued its Glen Davis 34.7 team's top defender in 2006-07 home-court winning Greg Terrebonne Dameon Mason 32.1 and also placed among the league streak against Louisiana SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll leaders in assists from the point- schools for another FREE THROW PERCENTAGE guard position at 4.3 assists per season and will enter the Garrett Temple 81.4 game. He again continued the 2007-08 opener against Tasmin Mitchell 75.0 tradition of positive assists-to- Southeastern Louisiana on a 62- straight games against teams Glen Davis 71.3 turnover ratio that John Brady- game Maravich Center winning ranked in the Associated Press Top Dameon Mason 70.0 coached starting point guards have streak against Louisiana schools. 10 and the Florida win was the Darnell Lazare 62.1 carried for years with a plus 1.7 The Tigers also advanced its ninth time in the John Brady era that the Tigers have won against a ASSISTS average, 10th best in the SEC. SEC Maravich Center winning Garrett Temple 138 streak to 19 before it ended in the Top 10 AP team. Glen Davis 66 Darnell Lazare third SEC home game of the year. Tasmin Mitchell 59 The senior got his opportunity to That was the third longest ESPNGameday Ben Voogd 45 be a major player on the Tiger team conference home winning streak in One of the other highlights of Terry Martin 43 and his four years of hard work paid school history. the season came on Jan. 6 when off as he started 25 games and ESPN brought its basketball STEALS "College Gameday" and its Garrett Temple 52 averaged 24 minutes a contest, Paid Attendance averaging 7.4 points and 4.5 The Tigers paid attendance last Saturday night prime time college Tasmin Mitchell 34 basketball telecast to Baton Rouge Glen Davis 32 rebounds a game, scoring a career season was 10,002, giving LSU its for the LSU-Connecticut game. A Darnell Lazare 23 high 22 in the league at Ole Miss in sixth consecutive year with an Tack Minor 17 February, 2007. He earned his increase in paid attendance at the production crew of over 150 put degree this past summer and is Maravich Center. The Tigers drew a together two specially designed BLOCKS continuing his basketball career in paid average of 8,306 in 2001, sets in the Maravich Center for a Garrett Temple 34 the pro league in Poland. 8,534 in 2002, 8,687 in 2003, one-hour morning show along with Magnum Rolle 31 9,355 in 2004, 9,409 in 2005 and reports and a one-hour pregame Glen Davis 28 9,469 in 2006. show later in the day. Tasmin Mitchell 25 Coach John Brady joined hosts Chris Johnson 12 Another Top 10 Win Rece Davis, Hubert Davis, Digger MINUTES One thing John Brady and his Phelps and Jay Bilas to set the Garrett Temple 1099 team was able to do this past year scene for the telecast and Andy Tasmin Mitchell 1092 is defeat teams ranked in the top 10 Katz did a special feature on Glen Glen Davis 1016 in the polls. The Tigers defeated Davis' daily campus routine. Dan Darnell Lazare 720 No. 6 Texas A&M, 64-52, in Shulman, Dick Vitale and Erin Terry Martin 701 December and then, with Glen Andrews handled the game Davis on the bench with injury, the broadcast and the Tigers sent all Tigers played a masterful game to their fans home happy with a 66- defeat No. 3 Florida, 66-56, in 49 victory. Baton Rouge on Feb. 24. Including the NCAA Tournament wins against No. 1 Duke and No. 9 Darnell Lazare Texas, LSU has now won four 2007-2008 LSU BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 93 Box Scores Exhibition Game, LSU 70, EA Sports 65 3PT Halftime: LSU 29, Wichita State 23. Total FG Pct: WSU 46.2; LSU INTRO LSU FG FG FT REB PTS 40.0. 3Pt FG Pct: WSU 14.3; LSU 22.2. FT Pct: WSU 87.5; LSU 53.8. November 9, 2006, at Baton Rouge, La. Davis* 4-5 1-1 7-8 8 16 Assists: WSU 11 (Braeuer 4); LSU 9 (Mitchell 3). Turnovers: 13 THIS IS LSU 3PT Mitchell* 4-10 3-5 3-3 8 14 (Couisnard 5); LSU 15 (Davis 6). Blocks: WSU 1 (Couisnard 1); LSU 3 EA SPORTS FG FG FT REB PTS TIGERS Forte* 5-14 1-3 4-5 6 15 Lazare* 4-6 0-0 8-9 10 16 (Davis, Mitchell, Temple 1). Steals: WSU 5 (Braeuer, Couisnard 2); Mason* 2-5 1-2 0-0 2 5 LSU 6 (Davis, Mason, Voogd 2). Attendance: 9,205-pd; 6,325-acutal COACHES Blackburn* 2-8 1-3 0-0 5 5 Husted* 9-21 0-1 3-3 10 21 Temple* 6-11 4-8 0-0 7 16 Minor 1-2 1-2 0-0 0 3 REVIEW DeVries* 0-4 0-1 2-4 3 2 Game 4 LSU 91, McNeese State 57 Voogd 1-1 0-0 2-2 3 4 Mathies* 0-1 0-0 2-2 1 2 November 29, 2006, at Baton Rouge, La. PREVIEW Legans 1-3 1-2 0-0 1 3 Terrebonne 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 Rolle 4-7 0-0 0-0 6 8 Stigall 1-2 0-0 2-2 0 4 3PT RECORDS Johnson 4-5 0-0 1-2 1 9 Mills 3-7 0-1 3-4 7 9 McNeese State FG FG FT REB PTS Farrer 1-1 1-1 2-2 0 5 HISTORY Hill 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 Bradley* 2-7 0-0 2-2 6 6 Banks 2-6 0-0 0-0 5 4 Team 3 Pichon* 1-8 1-3 2-2 3 5 TOTALS 31-53 11-19 23-26 49 96 LSU Team Wardell* 6-13 0-0 4-6 9 16 TOTALS 23-68 3-11 16-20 38 65 Aaron* 2-9 1-4 1-2 2 6 MEDIA H alftime: LSU 44, NSU 18.