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1 overall pick.With the draft order now officially set, mock draft season is in full force.

Completing his third season as the head coach of the LSU Fighting Tiger basketball program, Coach Will Wade has been able to check all the boxes of program building and program stability that he set out to accomplish when he was named the 22nd head coach of the LSU program prior to the 2017-18 season. He came to LSU after a stellar two-year stint as the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and two years at UT-Chattanooga.He was the first Tiger mentor to get the Tigers to post-season play in both of the first two seasons on the job. His schedule ranked fifth in the country in 2019 and eighth in the country in 2020. We are going to be a hard-working team that represents this great university that represents this great state.”Frank William “Will” Wade said those words on March 20, 2017 when he was named the head coach at LSU.

Waters was a first-team All-SEC selection and the co-SEC Defensive Player of the Year while Reid made the league all-freshman team.

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Some of those changes include: 1) to forfeit $250,000.00 in bonuses he would have otherwise earned during the time of his suspension, 2) the contract also now allows LSU to fire Wade for cause if he commits a Level I or Level II NCAA violation, and 3) He can also be terminated if the NCAA infractions committee issues a formal notice to LSU that Wade was involved in a Level 1 or Level 2 violation.Southern Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year The documents allege Wade "arranged for, offered and/or provided impermissible payments, including cash payments, to at least 11 men's basketball prospective student-athletes, their family members, individuals associated with the prospects and/or nonscholastic coaches in exchange for the prospects' enrollment at LSU," according to the report.It's unclear how many -- if any -- of the 11 potential recruits who are part of the NCAA investigation went on to sign with the Tigers.Wade nonetheless was reportedly caught in a wiretapped conversation discussing the very definition of recruiting irregularities, particularly in a conversation between he and basketball middleman Christian Dawkins. Bigby-Williams signed with the New Orleans’ G-League franchise in Erie and posted good numbers.

The native of Nashville, Tennessee, directed VCU to a 51-20 record and two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. This past season that non-conference schedule helped LSU open with eight straight conference wins as LSU tied for second place in the league one season after winning the league championship.

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And ESPN's Jonathan Givony released his first mock draft since the lottery and projects LaMelo Ball to go No. LSU also won by four points at Texas A&M in overtime after rallying from six down in the final two minutes of regulation. The team was 25-11 in 2016 and earned a share of the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season crown.