1984β85 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball | |
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Southland Conference regular season champions Southland Conference tournament champions | |
NCAA tournament, Sweet Sixteen | |
Conference | Southland Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 8 |
AP | No. 8 |
Record | 29β3 (11β1 Southland) |
Head coach |
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Home arena | Thomas Assembly Center |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 8 Louisiana Tech β | 11 | – | 1 | .917 | 29 | – | 3 | .906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McNeese State | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 18 | – | 10 | .643 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lamar | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arkansas State | 6 | – | 6 | .500 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northeast Louisiana | 4 | – | 8 | .333 | 17 | – | 12 | .586 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas-Arlington | 3 | – | 9 | .250 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Texas | 1 | – | 11 | .083 | 5 | – | 23 | .179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1985 Southland tournament winner Rankings from AP poll [1] |
[2] The 1984β85 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball team represented Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana for the 1984β85 season. Although other players on the team as well as head coach Andy Russo were well in the spotlight, the real star of the show for the Bulldogs that season was Karl Malone. Malone would lead the Bulldogs to their best season to date in program history as well as earning himself All-American honors. Following the season, Malone would enter the NBA draft, being selected 13th overall by the Utah Jazz. Spending the majority of his career with Utah, Malone would be named an NBA All-Star fourteen times, NBA Most Valuable Player twice, and be inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame in 2010. [3]
1984β85 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs men's basketball team | |||||||||||||||
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Source [4]
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site city, state | ||||||
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Regular season | |||||||||||
11/28/1984* |
Concordia Lutheran | W 82β61 | 1β0 |
Thomas Assembly Center (3,150) Ruston, LA | |||||||
12/1/1984* |
at Centenary | W 78β62 | 2β0 |
Gold Dome (3,382) Shreveport, LA | |||||||
12/3/1984* |
Rice | W 75β63 | 3β0 |
Thomas Assembly Center (4,325) Ruston, LA | |||||||
12/7/1984* |
vs. No. 6
Louisville Wendy's Classic |
W 73β64 | 4β0 |
E.A. Diddle Arena (12,450) Bowling Green, KY | |||||||
12/8/1984* |
at
Western Kentucky Wendy's Classic |
W 59β54 | 5β0 |
E.A. Diddle Arena (13,000) Bowling Green, KY | |||||||
12/10/1984* |
Ball State | W 73β59 | 6β0 |
Thomas Assembly Center (3,780) Ruston, LA | |||||||
12/14/1984* |
vs.
Alabama State Marshall Invitational |
W 80β57 | 7β0 |
Cam Henderson Center (7,000) Huntington, WV | |||||||
12/15/1984* |
at
Marshall Marshall Invitational |
W 69β63 | 8β0 |
Cam Henderson Center (8,446) Huntington, WV | |||||||
12/17/1984* |
at Northwestern State | W 78β50 | 9β0 |
Prather Coliseum (1,200) Natchitoches, LA | |||||||
12/29/1984* |
No. 19 | at
Oklahoma City All-College Tournament |
W 90β62 | 10β0 |
The Myriad (9,458) Oklahoma City, OK | ||||||
12/30/1984* |
No. 19 | vs. No. 17
Oklahoma All-College Tournament |
L 72β84 | 10β1 |
The Myriad (10,287) Oklahoma City, OK | ||||||
1/5/1985* |
No. 18 | Northwestern State | W 92β63 | 11β1 |
Thomas Assembly Center (6,120) Ruston, LA | ||||||
1/7/1985* |
No. 18 | Centenary | W 83β65 | 12β1 |
Thomas Assembly Center (5,660) Ruston, LA | ||||||
1/12/1985 |
No. 14 | at Texas-Arlington | W 76β65 | 13β1 |
Texas Hall (2,500) Arlington, TX | ||||||
1/17/1985 |
No. 12 | North Texas | W 68β50 | 14β1 |
Thomas Assembly Center (3,370) Ruston, LA | ||||||
1/19/1985* |
No. 12 | Southwestern Louisiana | W 94β74 | 15β1 |
Thomas Assembly Center (5,150) Ruston, LA | ||||||
1/24/1985 |
No. 12 | at McNeese State | W 88β69 | 16β1 |
Lake Charles Civic Center (6,700) Lake Charles, LA | ||||||
1/26/1985 |
No. 12 | at Lamar | L 64β72 | 16β2 |
Montagne Center (8,317) Beaumont, TX | ||||||
1/31/1985 |
No. 15 | Arkansas State | W 80β73 | 17β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (3,360) Ruston, LA | ||||||
2/2/1985 |
No. 15 | at Northeast Louisiana | W 73-63 | 18β2 |
Fant-Ewing Coliseum (6,840) Monroe, LA | ||||||
2/7/1985 |
No. 14 | at Texas-Arlington | W 86-61 | 19β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (3,720) Ruston, LA | ||||||
2/9/1985 |
No. 14 | at North Texas | W 90-72 | 20β2 |
UNT Coliseum (2,100) Denton, TX | ||||||
2/14/1985* |
No. 12 | at Southwestern Louisiana | W 83-76 | 21β2 |
Blackham Coliseum (8,800) Lafayette, LA | ||||||
2/18/2003 |
No. 12 | McNeese State | W 59β58 | 22β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (5,410) Ruston, LA | ||||||
2/21/1985 |
No. 10 | Lamar | W 73β65 | 23β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (7,215) Ruston, LA | ||||||
2/23/1985 |
No. 10 | Arkansas State | W 100β67 | 24β2 |
ASU Field House (4,874) Jonesboro, AR | ||||||
2/28/1985 |
No. 7 | Northeast Louisiana | W 72-65 | 25β2 (11β1) |
Thomas Assembly Center (6,090) Ruston, LA | ||||||
Southland Conference tournament | |||||||||||
3/6/1985 |
No. 8 | Northeast Louisiana Southland Conference tournament Semifinal |
W 72-20 OT | 26β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (6,155) Ruston, LA | ||||||
3/7/1985 |
No. 8 | Lamar Southland Conference Championship |
W 70-69 | 27β2 |
Thomas Assembly Center (6,620) Ruston, LA | ||||||
NCAA tournament | |||||||||||
3/14/1985* |
(5 MW) No. 8 | vs. (12 MW)
Pittsburgh NCAA first round |
W 78β54 | 28β2 |
Mabee Center (9,975) Tulsa, OK | ||||||
3/16/1985* |
(5 MW) No. 8 | vs. (4 MW)
Ohio State NCAA round of 32 |
W 79β67 [7] | 29β2 |
Mabee Center (10,575) Tulsa, OK | ||||||
3/21/1985* |
(5 MW) No. 8 | vs. (1 MW) No. 4 Oklahoma Midwest Regional semifinal – Sweet Sixteen |
L 84β86 OT [8] | 29β3 |
Reunion Arena (17,007) Dallas, TX | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from
AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
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Round | Pick | Player | NBA Club |
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1 | 13 | Karl Malone | Utah Jazz |