Much louder due to the fact it is smaller and was always packed to the rafters for big games. Many times when Bo Lamar played there it was standing room only.Quote:
Originally Posted by locoguano
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Much louder due to the fact it is smaller and was always packed to the rafters for big games. Many times when Bo Lamar played there it was standing room only.Quote:
Originally Posted by locoguano
Church was an unbelievable shooter. Anyone remember Larry Simon and Bill McHorris from the late 50's early 60's? They are the guys that got it all started with Beryl ShipleyQuote:
Originally Posted by SugarLandCajun
There were three sets of wooden bleachers on each side. Each set of bleachers had only five rows. Each set sat approximately 125 (X6).Quote:
Originally Posted by RedBug58
There are 20 sections at Blackham, each with 16 rows. If you sat two to an aisle, that's 32X20=640.
The old Blackham did not have the seats on the court, so you have to subtract those.
Do the math, my friend. 5600 actual seats. Add the endzone seating. Add the custom bleachers....you can't get to 8000, even if you stuff the aisles.
5 rows looks right. Might have been more than 6 sections though, it looks like they might have wrapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by BirdofParadise
Still 9000 would be a hard # to reach.
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That is how I remember the placeQuote:
Originally Posted by Turbine
Great picture Turbine!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbine
Man that brings back memories. I didn't miss a home game from 1965 until the NCAA shut us down. It was the best show in town. I still have the programs from every one of those games in a box in my parents attic. Including the season played in the Mens Gym (Earl K Long)
MEMORIES :h:Quote:
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WOW, check this out...........Quote:
Originally Posted by BirdofParadise
According to "Stadiums in the USA" Blackham holds 9,800!!
USA Indoor Sports Lafayette Blackham Coliseum 9 800 - all-seater
USA Indoor Sports Baton Rouge River Center Arena 8 500 1978 all-seater
USA Basketball-use Shreveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum 8 500 1954 all-seater
USA McNeese State Cowboys Lake Charles Burton Coliseum 8 000 1976 all-seater
USA LSU Tigers Baton Rouge Alex Box Stadium 7 760 1985 -
USA Lousiana Tech Bulldogs Ruston Thomas Assembly Center 7 565 - -
USA Southeastern Louisiana Lions Hammond University Center 7 500 1982 all-seater
USA SW Louisiana Swashbucklers Lake Charles Sudduth Coliseum 7 450 - all-seater
USA Louisiana-Monroe Indians Monroe Fant-Ewing Coliseum 7 085 1971 all-seater
USA Shreveport Sports Shreveport Fair Grounds Field 6 400 1986 -
USA Multi-use Alexandria Rapides Parish Coliseum 5 868 - all-seater
USA New Orleans Privateers New Orleans Privateer Park 5 225 - -
USA UL-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns Lafayette Cajun Track Stadium 5 000 - all-seater
USA Indoor Sports Monroe Monroe Civic Center 4 712 - all-seater
USA NSU Demons Natchitoches Prather Coliseum 3 900 1970 all-seater
USA UL-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns Lafayette M.L. 'Tigue' Moore Field 3 755 1979 all-seater
USA Tulane Green Wave New Orleans Fogelman Arena 3 600 1933 all-seater
USA Tulane Green Wave New Orleans Turchin Stadium 3 500 - -
USA Baseball-use Alexandria Bringhurst Field 3 500 - all-seater
USA Indoor Sports Kenner Pontchartrain Center 3 061 - all-seater
USA Grambling SU Tigers Grambling Tiger Field 3 000 2002 all-seater
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They are too numerous to list, as one would expect from 35 years of basketball competition in one arena, but the Louisiana Ragin' Cajun men and women etched some indelible memories for fans from 1950 to 1985.
Cajun women actually played in Blackham longer, finally departing in 1992 after featuring a national scoring champion of their own.
What follows is a list of some - certainly not all - of the special memories the Cajuns provided in Blackham.
Cajuns 107, UL Monroe 104, OT
Feb. 25, 1971 - Dwight "Bo" Lamar was on the way to the first of his two national scoring titles, and this game had a lot to do with it as the sophomore guard poured in a school-record 62 points, including 55 in regulation.
Southeastern Louisiana 101, Cajun Women 99, OT
Feb. 5, 1990 - Kim Perrot, the greatest women's player in Cajun history, shredded SLU with 58 points, hitting 20-of-40 shots from the field, en route to leading the nation in scoring with 30 points per game.
Cajuns 97, Santa Clara 76
March 22, 1984 - Louisiana reached the NIT Final Four with this quarterfinal victory over road-weary Santa Clara. Graylin Warner and teammates performed a high-kick dance line to "New York, New York" at game's end.
Cajuns 74, Weber State 72
March 19, 1984 - This was the game that provided the momentum for beating Santa Clara two nights later, a memorable nail-biter to go with a two-point victory at Utah State to begin the NIT.
Cajuns 74, Alabama-Birmingham 72
March 6, 1980 - Dion Rainey nailed a game-winning jumper from deep in the corner, almost falling out of bounds, as the Cajuns stunned the Gene Bartow-coached Blazers of UAB in NIT action. UL then beat Texas on the road before losing at Minnesota in the quarterfinals.
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Cajuns 92, Auburn 75
Dec. 22, 1979 - Before Southern and Grambling called their football series the Bayou Classic, it was an annual December basketball event in Blackham hosted by UL. In the 1979 Classic finals, covered by Sports Illustrated, senior Andrew Toney was too much for the Tigers' defense, exploding for 34 of his 46 points after halftime.
Cajuns 71, Athens State 58
Cajuns 78, Huntington 69
March 2-3, 1965 - Beryl Shipley's eighth team at UL was the first to reach the national stage. The wins over Athens State and Huntington earned the Cajuns the NAIA District 27 Tournament crown in a 20-win campaign that ended in the NAIA nationals.
Cajuns 104, Oral Roberts 89
Cajuns 82, Samford 63
Feb. 23, 1973; Dec. 2, 1975 - The victory over ORU was the final home game in Blackham for the Ragin' Cajuns before the 1973 NCAA Tournament, and the final one before NCAA probation ended the program for two years. Defeating Samford marked the Cajuns' return to the home court after the probation was ended.
Cajuns 113, LSUNO 107
March 2, 1971 - The 1971 Cajuns hosted the NCAA College Division South Regional game against a Privateers team whose name at the time was still attached to LSU. Since that first-ever meeting, the UNO Privateers have become possibly the most fierce UL rival in basketball.
Cajuns 94, Louisiana Tech 83
Feb. 17, 1973 - Tech and UL first played basketball in the 1916-17 season, and the north-south rivals have staged some classics over the years. Few will match this 1973 entry, when Tech star Mike Green missed a crucial late free throw, Bo Lamar made his, and the Cajuns survived a thriller.
Cajuns 90, Long Beach State 83
Dec. 11, 1971 - High school teammates Bo Lamar and Ed Ratleff had the chance to meet on the court in the Bayou Classic finals, and Lamar's Cajuns emerged victorious. Ratleff had been the more highly-recruited out of high school, but the smallish Lamar finished with 3,493 points in college play.
Cajuns 97, Lamar 81
Feb. 23, 1981 - UL and Tech have always been rivals. UL and UNO have become fierce foes. During the Blackham years, though, it was hard to match the animosity felt toward Lamar. One year after Andrew Toney left for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, Lafayette product Kevin Figaro led a 16-point destruction of the Cardinals.
Cajuns 83, McNeese State 69
Feb. 14, 1977 - Andrew Toney and Cordy Glenn led a resurgence of Cajun basketball, and this win over John Rudd and the Cowboys was a critical one in a march to UL's first Southland Conference crown.
Cajuns 81, Texas-Arlington 75
March 6, 1982 - This game had plenty of drama. The Cajuns were on the verge of leading the Southland Conference over the Division 1-AA football question, and were hosting the SLC Tournament. By defeating the Movin' Mavs in the finals, UL said goodbye to the SLC and returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1973.
Cajuns 65, Florida 64
March 14, 1985 - One year after reaching the NIT Final Four, the Cajuns were once again hosting an NIT game. Gators star Andrew Moten missed a layup at game's end and UL won its final game in Blackham before leaving for the Cajundome.
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From 1950-85, Blackham Coliseum hosted some of the best players ever to play basketball for the University of Louisiana.
Two-time national scoring champion Dwight "Bo" Lamar heads a list that includes seven of the top nine scorers in UL men's history who enjoyed moments of greatness in Blackham. So did Kim Perrot, the school's all-time women's scoring champion.
We take a look at some of the players who made the Blackham Coliseum experience a special one for the last half-century.
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Kim Perrot (1986-90) </b>
Louisiana's career leader in points scored (2,157), assists (654) and steals (421) - all by a wide margin - as well as field goals (828), field goal attempts (2,003), free throws (299) and free throw attempts (553). Perrot led the nation in scoring in 1989-90, averaging 30.0 points per game, and her No. 12 jersey is retired by the school.
<b> Lisa Merritt (1980-84) </b>
The only other UL women's player with her jersey number (32) retired, Merritt scored 1,747 points and averaged 16.8 points per game in her Cajun career. She helped the 1983-84 team to 22 wins, a total not matched until 2004-2005.
<b> Teena Cooper (1984-88)</b>
Cooper started 105 games for the Cajuns and holds the career rebounding record of 1,082, the only player above the 1,000 plateau. She hit 56.1 percent of her shots.
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Rhonda McCullough (1987-90)
The ultimate long-distance bomber for the Cajun women's program, coming along at the perfect time to take advantage of the 3-point field goal. McCullough holds school records for 3-pointers made (260), attempted (632) and percentage of treys hit (.411)
Aronji Johnson (1984-86)
The Cajun career leader in scoring average (20.5 points per game) and in field goal percentage (.613). Her 21.2-point average in 1984-85 is topped only by Perrot's 30-point norm five years later.
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