College basketball’s viral student manager brings talents to LSU

March Madness can turn you from a regular person into a viral sensation with one performance. It can take one insane game or a viral moment to make you famous online. That’s what happened to Amir “Aura” Khan during the 2025 Men’s basketball March Madness tournament. He was a student manager for the McNeese State Cowboys at the time and led the squad out with a pre-game walk-out. His fame took off after the Cowboys upset the Clemson Tigers in the first round. McNeese State was led by head coach Will Wade, who later left for NC State. Well, entered the transfer portal and found a new home as well.MORE: Steven Pearl fired up after Alabama-Auburn basketball exhibition scuffleAmir “Aura” Khan is now a student manager at LSUMcNeese State Cowboys manager Amir Khan before a second round men’s NCAA Tournament game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Amica Mutual Pavilion. | Brian Fluharty-Imagn ImagesPlayers enter the transfer portal, but now student managers are doing it in college basketball! Amir Khan packed his bags and joined the always-controversial Will Wade as head coach of the LSU Tigers men’s basketball team.From @McNeese to LSU, Amir Aura Kahn's tour begins TONIGHT. pic.twitter.com/VpVYb1nHwT— LSU (@LSU) November 3, 2026Wade and the Tigers almost needed to see if Khan had any basketball skills because of eligibility issues surrounding this team. One of Khan’s most famous sayings was “If they kept manager stats for rebounding and wiping out wet spots on the court, I’d put up Wilt Chamberlain numbers”. Amir Kahn really took over March Madness 😭 (via @CBSSports) pic.twitter.com/pY5c6pL8nm— Overtime (@overtime) March 22, 2025Khan briefly joined NC State while Wade coached there, then followed him to Baton Rouge. Wade spent only one year on the sidelines at NC State. He was the head coach at LSU from 2017-2022 but was fired after receiving an NCAA Notice of Allegations that showed multiple major rule violations. Some of those violations involved illegally paying players, but that’s now legal with NIL, so the Tigers welcomed Wade back.He now joins a school with coaching personalities like Lane Kiffin and Kim Mulkey.MORE: Purdue men’s basketball coach Matt Painter secures pay raise for 2026-27 season