BATON ROUGE – LSU Vice-Chancellor/Director of Athletics Joe Alleva announced on Friday that the LSU Athletics Department has commissioned a statue of LSU All-America and NBA star Bob Pettit, which is expected to be unveiled prior to the conclusion of the 2015-16 basketball season.
The life-size statue will be placed in the area in the front of the Basketball Practice Complex near the present location of the Shaquille O’Neal statue and next to the new LSU Gymnastics Practice Facility.
Pettit played at LSU in the 1952, 1953 and 1954 seasons.