LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva and LSU President F. King Alexander have released a joint statement, suspending LSU Head Men's Basketball Coach Will Wade.
LSU Men's Basketball is currently enjoying its best season in a decade, but the current allegations could disrupt the team's focus moving into tournament play.
Authorities say the shooting took place just after midnight on Harding Blvd in Baton Rouge, near Mumford Stadium, which is the football home for Southern University.
Signing the top recruit in college basketball sounds like a great idea. It sounded like the craziest thing that LSU's Men's Basketball program could do in 2015, but that's exactly what then coach Johnny Jones did when they signed Ben Simmons.
Last week was not the greatest for new LSU Men's Basketball Head Coach Will Wade, but he's making up for it this week.
Wade has been able to land homegrown super-recruit Javonte Smart, according to the Louisiana Radio Network:
"New LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade landed a major verbal commitment today as five-star point guard Javonte Smart of Scotlandville High gave his verbal pledge to
New LSU Men's Basketball Coach Will Wade has been on the job less than a month, but is already putting his coaching staff together. In one of his first moves, it looks like Wade will be more than willing to look to LSU's past to help build their future...
It hasn't been the greatest year for the LSU Men's Basketball team. Who are we kidding...this has been a horrific year for LSU's Men's Basketball team. At this point, the only way the team would make the NCAA Tournament would be if they could somehow win the SEC Tournament next month, which is highly unlikely for more than one reason (but the main reason is that Kentucky is still in the SEC)...
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