BATON ROUGE – LSU men’s basketball Coach Will Wade announced Friday night in his post-game press conference that he has awarded junior walk-on Marshall Graves a scholarship for the spring semester.
The announcement came after the Tigers took down previously undefeated and nationally-ranked Furman, 75-57, Friday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center to give LSU 14 consecutive home wins dating back to last year.
Graves, from Ponchatoula, played on state championship high school basketball teams at University Lab School with teammates Skylar Mays and the late Wayde Sims.
The scholarship had previously belonged to Sims, who was tragically killed in late September. Both Sims and Graves came to LSU prior to the 2016-17 season.
“He’s earned it; he deserves it,” Wade said of Graves. “I’m proud of him, and I know Wayde would be proud. He’d be proud to have Marshall have it because they were (high school) teammates. So that’s pretty cool.”
Graves has played in 33 games in his LSU career and is averaging 2.8 points this season.