LSU players recall weathering Katrina

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2006 | by Mike Jensen

Ben Voogd showed up at Louisiana State as a freshman guard from the West Coast and almost immediately was transported to another world.

In a heartbeat, Voogd goes back to the first days in Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina in August. As he left his apartment, the first sight was the helicopters. He still can picture them landing on LSU's track. He can see stretchers being wheeled in - "rushed in, as fast as they could," he said - to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, which had been turned into a triage center.

"They'd just put the floor down in there," Voogd said yesterday. "I was in there shooting the night before."

Before mammoth Glen "Big Baby" Davis led LSU to this Final Four - in which the Tigers will take on UCLA tonight at the RCA Dome - Voogd saw...