Nearly anybody and everybody associated with LSU men’s basketball convened Tuesday at the PMAC concourse to start the 100th Anniversary Celebration of LSU men’s basketball.The year-long event culminates with the Centennial game Jan. 31 against Arkansas, 100 years and one day after LSU’s first men’s basketball game.Former Tiger players and coaches signed autographs along with the current men’s basketball team, taking pictures and sharing laughs with season ticket holders.Notable former players included Durand “Rudy” Macklin and Stanley Roberts. All-time winningest coach Dale Brown was also in attendance.All-Decade teams were announced at the event. Players who played before 1940 were named to the “Early Years Team,” which runs from 1909 to 1939.Online voting for the All-Century team began 10 p.m. Tuesday on LSUsports.net, but fans who attended the event were able to vote early. Voting ends in November. The ballot contains 81 players, but only 15 players will be selected to the team.Media personality and former LSU guard Jordy Hultberg served as the moderator for the event, asking former players who fans should name to the All-Century team.The duo of Collis Temple Jr. and Collis Temple III spoke about old memories of their years at LSU. The elder Temple had one particular memory that stood out.”When Collis [III] was two days old, I got one of these bills from the post office, a big brown envelope,” Temple Jr. said. “It said he had a scholarship to come to LSU.”Athletic Director Joe Alleva spoke first, once again imploring fans to fill the PMAC for the Tigers’ 21 home games this season.”We owe it to those kids and to the coaches to fill up this building,” Alleva said. “I know what a competitive edge can do for a basketball team. I’ve watched it first hand for a long time in Cameron Indoor Stadium [at Duke].”Even former walk-on Brandon Landry, who co-founded Walk On’s restaurant with Jack Warner, was at the event. Landry said he and Warner helped pick the final member of the LSU basketball team after LSU coach Trent Johnson held open  walk-on tryouts Sept. 17.”Jack and I really learned how to take care of the 11th and 12th seats on the bench,” Landry joked.Coach Trent Johnson was welcomed to a standing ovation, as was Brown.LSU will hold a public scrimmage Oct. 28 before opening against Jackson State on Nov. 15 in the PMAC.—-Contact Robert Stewart at [email protected]