LSU Athletics Director Joe Alleva announced the firing of basketball coach Johnny Jones at a press conference Friday morning. 
LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva brought Jones into coach the team after the 2011-2012 season. It was a return home for Jones. He played in 1981 Final Four as a freshman at LSU and later served as an assistant on Dale Brown’s staff until his retirement in ’97.
Jones’s first team with the Tigers won 19 games and set a school record with 234 three-pointers made in a season.
Jones’s second year brought improvement to the Tiger squad. The team finished with 20 wins and earned a postseason birth to the NIT. It was the first postseason birth for LSU since 2009.
In 2015, Jones and the Tigers took an even greater step. They won 22 games, finished tied for third in the SEC, and earned an NCAA Tournament bid.
LSU led North Carolina State by 16 at one point, but ultimately lost its first round game. The game would foreshadow some things to come. The Tigers were notorious for poor defense under Jones’s tenure.
Fans and critics started questioning if Jones was capable of leading the Tigers to a NCAA Championship after the disappointing ending against N.C. State.
Despite less than a stellar record, Jones managed to recruit some star power to the team. Under Jones, LSU landed No. 1 recruit Ben Simmons in the 2015 off-season.
Fans were excited to see where Simmons could lead LSU, but LSU went 19-14 during the 2015-2016 season and missed the NCAA Tournament after an embarrassing 71-38 loss to Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament.
Jones declined an invitation for LSU to play in the NIT.
Some called for Jones’s firing, saying he couldn’t even make the tournament with Simmons, who would go on to be the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.
But Jones was ultimately retained for another season. Alleva hinted then that Jones would have to make the NCAA Tournament in 2017 if he wanted to keep his job.
Early in the season showed signs that Jones was in trouble. The 2017 season proved to be the year it all came tumbling down. The Tigers finished 10-20 and suffered a 15 game losing streak toward the end of the season. 
In what proved to be his final home game at LSU, Jones and the Tigers pulled off a minor miracle by upsetting Tennessee 92-82. It was a fun night in the PMAC, something fans hadn’t seen in a long time.
The win ultimately meant nothing, however. Jones’s fate was already decided. 
He was let go when the Tigers exited the 2017 SEC Tournament in the first round after a bad 52-79 loss to Mississippi State.