National Coach / Player of the Year
SUE
GUNTER
SEIMONE
AUGUSTUS
NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Seimone Augustus completed her LSU career as the most decorated player in program history. The Baton Rouge native was named the 2004-05 consensus National Player of the Year as a junior, earning the Wade Trophy, the Naismith Award, the John R. Wooden Award, the Honda Award and the Victor Award. She was also named the Player of the Year by the United States Basketball Writers Association and the Associated Press. She followed that up with an even more impressive senior campaign and repeated as the National Player of the Year, receiving the Wade Trophy, the Naismith Award, the John R. Wooden Award, the Honda Award and the Senior C.L.A.S.S. Award as well as being named the Player of the Year by the Associated Press. Augustus finished her career as the second-leading scorer in LSU history with 2,702 points. She also set the NCAA record for double figure scoring games, reaching double figures in 132 of her 140 games. As a senior, Augustus led the nation in scoring with a 22.7 points per game average clip after scoring 20.1 points per game as a junior.
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2020-21 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK
POKEY
NATIONAL COACHES OF THE YEAR
CHATMAN
In Sue Gunter’s first season as head coach of the Lady Tigers in 1982-83, she received the National Coach of the Year honor from the Basketball News. Gunter guided LSU to a 20-7 record and posted a 6-2 mark in the Southeastern Conference. LSU was ranked as high as No. 17 during the season. Then first-year head coach Pokey Chatman, who guided the Lady Tigers to a 33-3 overall record, the first Southeastern Conference regular season title in the program’s history, and a second straight trip to the NCAA Final Four, received the 2004-05 National Coach of the Year honor from the United States Basketball Writers Association, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, the Black Coaches Association and Naismith. During Chatman’s first season, LSU was ranked No. 1 in the nation for 11 weeks and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Chatman’s Lady Tigers also posted a perfect 14-0 record in the SEC and went 12-0 inside the Pete Maravich Center. LSU put together win streaks of 12 straight and a school-record 16 games during the season.
