Men's Basketball

Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical

P.O. Box 25095 - Baton Rouge, LA - 70894
Team Office: Tel: (225) 578-8217 Fax:
Team website: www.lsusports.net/

Founded in 1860, LSU offers more than 70 undergraduate and graduate programs as well as 54 doctoral programs. It is the flagship institution of the state. Aside from the usual majors offered, LSU provides degrees in Environmental Science, Family, Child and Consumer Sciences, Forestry, Nutritional Science, International Trade, Wildlife and Fisheries, and Women's Studies. US News 2008 report on America's best colleges ranked LSU in the third tier among national universities.

The campus is located on more than 2000 acres in the southern part of Baton Rouge (pop.225k), bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.

School website
www.lsu.edu

College Profile

Type:

Public, co-ed

Religious Affiliation:

None

Enrollment:

31,000

Getting In:

Difficult: ACT 25/75: 23-27

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$11,000
Out-of-State: ~$19,000

Most Popular Majors

Business - Education - Engineering

Misc. Information

Head coach John Brady enters his 11th season at LSU in 2007-08. Prior to his arrival in 1997-98, Brady coached at Samford for six seasons - bringing that program back to respectability. Brady inherited an LSU team that had been placed on probation and consequently he struggled at first, producing losing seasons in three of his first four years. Since 2001-02, however, Brady has posted a 122-70 record, averaged 20 wins per season, placed first or second in conference play four times, and made three NCAA appearances. Brady played college ball at Belhaven College and got his coaching start at Mississippi State. In 2005-06, Brady produced the second best record of his career, going 27-9 and advanced to the NCAA Final 4 before falling to UCLA. However, things nosedived in 2006-07 as the Tigers went 17-15.

Team Name	Tigers
Colors	Purple and Gold
Division	NCAA Division I
All-Time Record	1346-1010 (.571)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	17-15	27-9	20-10	99-58 (.630)
Conference	5-11	14-2	12-4	36-44 (.450)
Conf. Finish	3	1	1	2, 2, 4, 6, 1
Post Appear.	n/a	Final 4	1st Rnd	NCAA 2x
Final 25 Rank	NR	#19	NR	?

Coaches

Head Coach	John Brady
	Birthday: 1954-09-17
Started at Louisiana St (LSU)	1997-98
Contract Expires
Record as Head Coach	413-305 (.575)
Record at Louisiana St (LSU)	184-126 (.593)
Coaching Awards	SEC COTY (00), Runner-up, Nat'l COTY (00)

Asst. Coaches	Butch Pierre, John Treloar, Chad Dollar,

Recruiting Coordinator

Butch Pierre, (225) 578-8217, bpierre@lsu.edu

Conference and Schedule

LSU plays in the Southeastern Conference (www.secsports.com). The conference is made up of 12 teams from nine states and is split into two divisions, east and west. LSU plays in the West. Currrently, LSU plays a 16 game schedule. League play commences after January 1 with most games played on Monday or Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The season concludes with the SEC tourney with the winner of the 11-game tournament receiving the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The tournament seeds and conference champion are determined by the 16-game regular-season SEC schedule. The top four seeds earn a first-round bye.

Conference Opponents

East: Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt. West: Mississippi St., Auburn, Alabama, Arkansas, and Missisippi.

Facilities

Maravich Center
Capacity: 14,200. Attendance: