BATON ROUGE — LSU’s men and women’s basketball teams will officially kick off their 2006-07 pre-season practices Friday night with the annual Basketball Fan Fest at 7 p.m. at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Division I teams can officially begin their preseason activities on Friday night and both the LSU men and women will put the SEC Championship and Final Four seasons behind them and begin looking ahead to the new seasons.
Activities will begin at 7 p.m. on the upper concourse of the Maravich Center as players and coaches for both teams will sign autographs for 45 minutes. The new posters and schedule cards for both teams will be available for distribution and the first 500 fans at the event will receive a free LSU Basketball t-shirt commemorating the Tigers and Lady Tigers.
After the autograph session, the activities will move to the floor where both teams will be featured on the Tiger View boards in highlights from last season and introduced and then both teams will take part in contests and events on the floor of the Maravich Center.
Fans will take part in a three-point shootout with members of the men and women’s team and back again this year someone in attendance will be part of the popular relay race.
One student in attendance will be eligible to win $500 in Tiger Cash as part of the evening’s festivities that will include the LSU Cheerleaders, the Tigers Girls Dance Team and the season debut of the Bengal Brass Basketball Band.
The players involved in the various competitions of the evening will be announced later in the week.