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March 08,
2010
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Tasmin Mitchell
LSU basketball player, Tasmin Mitchell finished his
home career Saturday with a twenty point effort
against Georgia in a 50-48 Tiger victory.
Mitchell, a fifth year
senior (how rare are those in college basketball?),
still has at least one more game to play in the SEC
tournament this week.
Currently he is third on
the LSU all-time scoring list, behind Pete Maravich
and Rudy Macklin, still needing 21 points to reach
the 2,000 point total for his career.
He is the only player to
be in the top ten in career scoring, rebounding, and
assists for the Tigers, and he set the record for
most minutes played in a career.
He has done this being a
local player from Denham Springs and with class.
He has played for three
different coaches and seen the penthouse (two SEC
championships and a Final Four) and this season's
2-14 SEC record.
He is only one of nine
players in LSU history to be a member of two SEC
championship teams.
He will definitely be
remembered as one of the all-time greats in LSU
basketball history.
With that said, I find it interesting to try and
figure out where Tas ranks among the all-time
greats.
Talking to some of the
media that covers LSU basketball, it seems to be
somewhere in the 10-15 range.
Last season, LSU celebrated its 100th
year of basketball and had an all-century Sweet 16
team.
Everyone agrees that Tas
deserves to be on that team.
And I agree with that.
However, if you want to play devil's advocate, Tas
said the record he was most proud of was most
minutes played.
I hear him, but you can
also use that as a negative.
If he was really “great”
then he wouldn't have been around LSU long enough to
set that record.
Anyway, I have a great respect for what Tas has
accomplished and the desire and determination in
which he has achieved it and overcoming a severe
knee injury.
I wish him the best, and I hope that he will fool
some people and make it big in professional
basketball.
LSU Baseball
The #1 ranked LSU baseball team is starting off this season on an 11-0
roll.
This is the best start for the Tigers since the1997
team that won 19 straight and we all know how that
season ended.
As everyone knows, this team is loaded and
poised to make a run at another national
championship.
The thing I have been most impressed with is this team's ability to play
all kinds of games, close one-run games, pitcher's
duels, and lopsided wins.
This team has as much speed as any LSU team I
have seen in awhile.
They also have as good a defense as any LSU
team has ever had, especially up the middle.
The two things I still need to see this team
develop in order to get me fully on the band wagon
is a reliable left-handed pitcher and a good
left-handed batter in the DH spot.
I think Chris Matulis could be the
left-handed pitcher we need.
If he develops, then he could be in the
middle of the two righties as a Saturday starter.
I'm not sure if there is a left-handed bat
that I have seen that can fill in that DH spot.
Hopefully, the answer will be that Matt
Gaudet will continue to tear the cover off the ball
and we won't need a left-handed bat at that
position.
The Tigers will step up a notch in competition next
week with Kansas coming to town.
Then the warm-ups are over and the Tigers
will open SEC play at home against an always tough
Arkansas team.
The weather and the baseball season are just
warming up.
Hopefully, both will be very hot and finish the
season in Rosenblatt Stadium for its swan song.
It will be only fitting for the program of
the last
twenty years to end that glorious stadium's run with
another national championship.
Until next time, may the
good Lord bless and keep you.
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