LSU set to test Duke

? Glen Davis peered tentatively around the curtain, as if he was shy about appearing on the national stage.

Then he opened his mouth.

LSU’s behemoth of a center is rarin’ to get it on with top-seeded Duke at the NCAA’s Atlanta Regional, where he’ll get a chance to prove he’s one of the best players in the country and a worthy successor to another mountain of a man who once wore the purple and gold.

From the Big Aristotle to the Big Baby.

“I want to have my own stamp of immortality,” Davis said Wednesday. “Every guy strives for immortality, wants to live forever.”

Well, that one may be a little tough to pull off. But he’s certainly done enough to escape the shadow of Shaquille O’Neal, who patrolled the middle for the Tigers back in the early 1990s.

Already, Davis has taken LSU farther than Shaq ever did. In three straight NCAA appearances, O’Neal’s teams never made it past the second round.

“Shaq is going to live forever,” Davis said. “I can’t live forever being Baby Shaq. I want to be my own guy.”