SEC Champions 2007-08 SEC CHAMPIONS
women’s basketball
In 2007-08, LSU claimed the program’s third outright Southeastern Conference regular season title and did so with a perfect 14-0 league record. The unblemished run through the SEC schedule was the second time in school history the Lady Tigers had achieved the feat and the second time in four seasons. LSU’s second league title in three years began on the road with a tough challenge against No. 20/18 Arkansas, but the Lady Tigers quickly put the Lady Razorbacks away with a 76-54 win. Three days later, LSU opened its home league slate with a 62-51 victory over Vanderbilt followed by a decisive blowout of Mississippi State at home, 84-31. The 53-point win broke the largest margin of victory by the Lady Tigers over an SEC opponent in school history. LSU then took to the road for two crucial games and both went in favor of the Lady Tigers. Following a 79-59 win at No. 25/22 Auburn, LSU ran its SEC record to 5-0 with a 72-46 blowout of Kentucky at Rupp Arena for the program’s 700th victory. For 283 consecutive minutes, the Lady Tigers had not trailed until South Carolina took an early lead on LSU on Jan. 31. That 6-4 deficit proved to be short-lived as the Lady Tigers closed the month of January with a 67-37 win to run their record to 6-0. Two more road wins followed, including a decisive 85-71 win at Florida before a hostile crowd at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. LSU faced its toughest test to date when the Lady Tigers pulled out a 63-57 road win at No. 24/21 Georgia on Feb. 10. With its record at 9-0, LSU traveled to Knoxville for a showdown with No. 1 Tennessee and what resulted was one of the most thrilling victories in school history. Down 21-2 eight minutes into the game, No. 7 LSU outscored Tennessee, 76-41, the rest of the game to stun the top-ranked Lady Vols, 78-62. Head coach Van Chancellor then defeated his former Ole Miss team, 78-48, and the Lady Tigers held on for a 52-48 home win to sweep Kentucky on the season series. LSU closed its regular season home schedule by beating Arkansas, 83-46, and the Lady Tigers completed a magical run through the conference schedule with a 69-49 win at Mississippi State to punctuate a 14-0 record.
champions
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2004-05 SEC CHAMPIONS
2005-06 SEC CHAMPIONS
In 2004-05 the Lady Tigers made history, not only by winning the program’s first Southeastern Conference title, but by doing it in convincing fashion. The Lady Tigers completed the SEC schedule unblemished, posting a 14-0 record. LSU began the conference season with a home game against No. 17 Georgia on national television. The Lady Tigers, ranked No. 1 at the time, handed the Lady Bulldogs a 76-52 loss and took that momentum into Gainesville, Fla., for a date with the Lady Gators. The Lady Tigers rolled past Florida, 64-47, and then returned home to host both Alabama and Arkansas. LSU handed Alabama a 76-51 loss and defeated Arkansas, 91-45, in impressive fashion. A trip to Nashville to face Vanderbilt in Memorial Coliseum was next. The Lady Tigers had not had much success when facing the Commodores on their home floor, but this time LSU prevailed, 79-68, over 17th-ranked Vanderbilt. The end of January had the Lady Tigers return to Baton Rouge to host pesky Auburn. A hard fought 57-52 victory boosted LSU to a 6-0 league mark with eight games left. A road swing through Mississippi saw the Lady Tigers hand Ole Miss a 82-58 loss and Mississippi State a 67-40 loss. Those two wins meant a showdown in the Pete Maravich Center between top-ranked LSU at 8-0 in the league and fifth-ranked Tennessee, also with a perfect 8-0 league mark. The Lady Tigers took care of business in front of the largest home crowd in LSU women’s basketball history, defeating the Lady Vols 68-58 on national television. A 66-36 victory at South Carolina and an 81-58 home victory over Kentucky followed and LSU had 11 league wins, the most in the program’s history. The final three games awaited, including trips to Auburn and Arkansas. Once again, the Auburn Tigers proved pesky, but LSU prevailed 62-57. Things were much easier in Fayetteville as LSU rolled to a 90-64 win, clinching at least a share of the league crown for the Lady Tigers. LSU returned home with a chance to claim the program’s first outright league title and a perfect 14-0 record. Florida stood in the way, but not for long. In front of a crowd of over 10,000 fans, LSU defeated the Lady Gators, 76-52, and the first SEC Champions banner was dropped from the rafters of the PMAC.
LSU backed up its 2004-05 Southeastern Conference regular season championship, the first in the program’s history, with a successful defense, earning a second-straight league title with a 13-1 record in 2005-06. The Lady Tigers tipped conference play off early with a 66-36 victory at Kentucky on Dec. 18. The title defense was underway. After a few more non-conference games, including wins at home over Michigan State and South Florida, LSU returned to league play at Auburn. Visiting the Plains is never an easy thing to do, but the Lady Tigers defeated the Tigers 65-38 to begin conference play with a 2-0 mark. Home wins over South Carolina and Alabama preceded a thrilling, 65-64, victory in Athens against No. 13 Georgia. That win put LSU in first place with a 5-0 record. The Lady Tigers returned home to face No. 22 Vanderbilt in the PMAC and a 75-53 victory over the Commodores coupled with a Tennessee loss at Kentucky the same night gave LSU a one-game lead atop the league standings over the Lady Vols. LSU won at Arkansas and at home against Ole Miss that set up a showdown in Knoxville with Tennessee. The Lady Tigers pulled off an exciting 72-69 win over the fifth-ranked Lady Vols to take a two-game lead with a 9-0 mark. The win was LSU’s first over Tennessee in Knoxville. Georgia invaded Baton Rouge with revenge on their minds, but LSU upended the Lady Dawgs, 68-61, to move to 10-0 and extend the Lady Tigers’ conference win streak to 24 straight games. LSU rolled into Gainesville in first place in the conference with a two-game lead, but Florida brought the Lady Tigers back into a title race with a 79-78 upset win in overtime. LSU held a slim one-game lead over Tennessee with three games to play. A home victory over Arkansas and a win at Alabama assured LSU of at least a tie for the title and earned the Lady Tigers the top seed for the upcoming SEC Tournament, but the program wanted its second-straight outright title. Mississippi State invaded the PMAC for the final home game in the careers of seniors Seimone Augustus, Scholanda Hoston and Florence Williams. The senior trio did not disappoint, leading LSU to a 62-48 victory and the Lady Tigers' second straight SEC regular season championship.
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