Seimone's Greatest Moment #4: Scaling Rocky Top

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Seimone Augustus is the greatest player to ever don an LSU Lady Tiger basketball jersey, and this Sunday she will become the first female student-athlete in LSU history to have her jersey retired when LSU hosts No. 4 Tennessee at 5 p.m. CST on ESPNU. The jersey retirement takes place at 4:30 p.m. Seimone Augustus' career was filled with brilliant moments in her four years. Defining which lasting images rank at the top is no easy chore, but this week on LSUsports.net, we will do our best to remember some of those great moments.

Our panel of LSU associate head coach Bob Starkey, women's basketball SID Bill Martin, senior associate sports information director Kent Lowe, radio announcer Patrick Wright and former LSU women's basketball SID Brian Miller, who covered Augustus' four years, has selected a top five.

The top five moments will be unveiled throughout the week leading up to Sunday's 4:30 p.m. jersey retirement.

Today, we take a look at No. 4.

LSU was previously 0-16 in Knoxville and the Tennessee Lady Vols had won 64 consecutive Southeastern Conference home games in the hostile confines of Thompson-Boling arena. Third-ranked LSU was looking to extend its SEC winning streak to 23 games. Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols were 21-2 and 7-1 in conference play as the top-five matchup would be shown to a national television audience on ESPN2.

An energized crowd of 18,850 were stunned as Seimone Augustus made her final appearance in the arena a memorable one with a game-high 32 points to lead the Lady Tigers to a 72-69 victory that ended Tennessee's 10-year SEC home winning streak.

The emotions of the 40-minute battle wore on the players faces.

"Florence Williams was in the back, dramatic tears flowing down her face," Augustus said. "That made me feel good inside. A lot of players came up to the seniors and said 'thank you.' We looked right back at them and said 'thank you.' It was thank you right back to them for going out and working and emotionally competing and just keeping us throughout the game."

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Posted by Bill Martin