LSU says former Tigers basketball player Josh Maravich has died at age 42. He was the youngest son of late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich. Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU for four seasons from 2001 to 2005 under then-coach John Brady.
COVINGTON, La. — Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, son of late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the university announced Saturday night.Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU — which plays home games in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center — from the 2001-02 to 2004-05 seasons under then-coach John Brady.
For the younger Maravich, it was a childhood dream to play for LSU, where his father set the men’s NCAA Division I scoring record of 3,667 points between 1967 and 1970. “I wanted to come here for my dad to make him proud,” Josh Maravich said in a 2005 article in The Daily Reveille, the LSU student newspaper. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star player, but for me being a walk-on was what I always wanted to do.”
Pete Maravich was a prolific scorer during an NBA career that was cut short in 1980 by lingering effects of a major knee injury a couple years prior.when his Division I scoring mark — which went unmatched by any men’s or women’s player for more than half a century — wasUConn back at No.
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