2021-22 LSU Men's Basketball Record Book

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Pete Maravich Pete Maravich was billed as the one who would put Louisiana basketball on the map from the first day he joined his father Press at LSU. People weren’t disappointed. His freshman year they packed the old John M. Parker Agricultural Center (known as the “Cow Palace”) to watch the freshman team and then left quickly as the varsity Tigers won just three games in 1967. By Pete’s senior year, the Tigers would improve to 20-8 and wind up in New York City at the National Invitation Tournament, a fitting place for the big-city Maravich Show to close its LSU run. To those who never saw him play live, but only watched what few games were on television or listened on radio, the Maravich story at LSU may seem larger than life. But his skills were perfected through hours and hours of repetitious drills at all hours of the day and night and in all kinds of settings. Maravich ended up receiving the richest contract ever offered a college player at the time to sign with the Atlanta Hawks ($1.9 million), but during his 10-year career with the Hawks, the New Orleans and Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics, his dream of a championship wasn’t fulfilled. Pete was finding that life wasn’t very fulfilling either. There were hard times when he went in search of something to make his life complete. He had money, he had fame. He didn’t have real happiness. But in 1982, Pistol Pete accepted Jesus Christ. He began enjoying life, enjoying times with his wife and children. Television executives were discovering his knowledge of the game again as a color commentator and best of all for LSU fans, a rift that grew between star and college had diminished and was forgotten. But the Pistol’s life suddenly ended on Jan. 5, 1988, just over a month after appearing at the Assembly Center for an emotional ceremony to formally present a portrait of Pete and his father to him.

Maravich’s Career Statistics YEAR

1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 TOTALS

LSU All-American 1968, 1969, 1970 National Player of the Year 1969, 1970 Third LSU Player to Have Number Retired 1970 Member of Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 1987 Member of NBA 50-Year Top 50 1997 Member of LSWA Top 25 Louisiana Athletes of the Century 1999 Member First-Team LABC AllLouisiana Team of the Century 1999

Maravich’s Records and Highlights • All-Time NCAA Career Scoring Leader with 3,667 points, an average of 44.2 points for 83 games. • Ranks first, fourth and fifth for most points in a single season in NCAA history. Averaged 44.5 points in 1970, 44.2 points in 1969 and 43.8 points in 1968. • Scored 69 points vs. Alabama, Feb. 7, 1970. • Led LSU to the NIT Final Four in 1970, its first postseason appearance in 16 years. • Unanimous first-team All-American in 1968, 1969, 1970. • Naismith Award winner in 1970. • Member of the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame after 10-year career with Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans and Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics.

G FG FGA PCT. FT

Member Sport Magazine’s Top 10 Men’s College Players of the Century 1999 Member of National Basketball Association Hall of Fame Honored as 2003 “Legend”at the SEC Basketball Tournament Member of National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame 2006 Member of LSU’s “All Century Team” 2009

FTA PCT. REB. AVG. PF-D AST. PTS–AVG.

26 432 1022 .422 274 338 .810 195 26 433 976 .444 282 378 .746 169 31 522 1168 .447 337 436 .773 164 83 1387 3166 .438 893 1152 .775 528

7.5 6.5 5.3 6.4

85-5 77-2 89-0 251-7

105 128 192 425

1138-43.8 1148-44.2 1381-44.5 3667-44.2

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