Walk-on Kinsley earns spot on LSU basketball team

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• Published: Oct 4, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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Baton Rouge native Zach Kinsley has been selected to join the LSU men’s basketball team as a walk-on for the 2008-09 season.

Tigers coach Trent Johnson and his staff chose Kinsey from 22 LSU students who went through a walk-on tryout in September.

Kinsley played at St. Michael The Archangel in Baton Rouge and spent last season at St. Thomas More Prep in Connecticut, where he averaged 20 points and nine rebounds a game.

At St. Michael, Kinsley broke the school’s single-season and career rebounding records while leading the team in scoring and rebounding all four years.

Johnson had similar walk-on tryouts in coaching stints at Stanford and Nevada and had good luck in past tryout programs. Chris Bobel, LSU’s director of basketball operations, was a walk-on at Stanford two years ago. Another walk-on, Kenny Brown, was named Stanford’s Chevrolet Player of the Game in a loss to Louisville in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Season tickets on sale

Season tickets for the upcoming 2008-09 LSU men’s and women’s basketball seasons go on sale this Monday at the LSU Athletics Ticket Office.

Tickets can also be purchased online at www.LSUsports.net or by calling (800) 960-TKTS or 225-578-2184.

Men’s season tickets start at $100, while season tickets for the Lady Tigers start at $95.

Fans who purchase LSU women’s season tickets before the season opener on Nov. 16 will have the opportunity to purchase 2009 NCAA Tournament First and Second Round ticket books at a reduced price of $19. NCAA Tournament ticket books are regularly priced at $30.

The first and second rounds are scheduled for March 22 and 24, 2009 and will be played at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

The Tigers will play a school record 21 home games this season. The opener is on Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. against Jackson State in the first PMAC-Tiger Stadium basketball-football doubleheader.

The football Tigers play Troy that night at 7 p.m. in a game moved from September because of Hurricane Gustav.