BATON ROUGE – LSU basketball has a storied history, but a murky future with major NCAA allegations to face and sanctions likely to follow. LSU alumnus and super fan James Carville believes LSU will survive this latest storm and come out ahead on the other side.
“Everything that they have done before gives you a lot of confidence,” said Carville. “I expect that they’re gonna get a very good basketball coach and I expect in a couple, three years, they’ll be better than we are now.”
The LSU athletic program has taken a number of hits over the past few years, from an ongoing Title IX investigation to these latest problems with the basketball program. Carville says that athletic director Scott Woodward is up to the task of setting things right.
“I think he is the right person,” added Carville. “I think Dr. (William) Tate is the right person to be running the university. And the combination of those two gives me a lot of confidence.”
Whatever the program is going through, Carville doesn’t think it will have any impact on the support the players get as they enter the NCAA tournament, and that the team can overcome this adversity.
“Obviously I’m gonna be pulling crazy when they play Iowa State,” he said. “Everything I see tells me that not only are they going to handle this conflict; they’re going to handle it really well.”
LSU will be hiring its fifth basketball coach over the last 25 seasons following the 25-year tenure of the program’s all-time winningest coach, Dale Brown.
The sixth-seeded Tigers will face 11th seed Iowa State Friday at 6:20 pm.
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