The Book: Lady Cajuns 2006-07 basketball

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Louisiana 59
Texas 69
FINAL

They constantly praised the team, saying how well they played with ...
2 players home.
Best player out with ankle
Player with flu giving it her all.

[UL-Lreality]

When are we going to decide what our name direction will be?? If we are demphasize "lafayette", then why do we have our Lady Cajun Basketball doing a yo-mans job on the court/tv, wear Louisiana on the top of their jersey and "HUGE" LAFAYETTE ON THE BOTTOM????????????

VERY Proud of our Lady Cajun Basketball team and ALL Their Coaches for what they are doing, I just do NOT understand the Uni's!!!


Daddy Cajun

ps Maybe someone can explain, that is someone in the know!!

I'm not in the know, but I know someone that is "in the know" and they have told me that the name of our school is what it is and it's not going to change and we should be proud of our name with the "at lafayette." It let's everyone know where our school actually is.

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The ladies fought hard and I enjoyed the game...I will be going to see some games this year...Coach Hall, I'm glad you stuck around. I still kick myself for not going out to the practices a couple of years ago when Coach Hall was looking for guys to come out for the ladies to practice against. The Coach's competitive nature looks contagious.

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If we are demphasize "lafayette", then why do we have our Lady Cajun Basketball doing a yo-mans job on the court/tv, wear Louisiana on the top of their jersey and "HUGE" LAFAYETTE ON THE BOTTOM????????????

How confusing!

The entire time UL was supposed to be on channel 38 and the entire time the Lady Cajuns were actually was on TV, there was a school called "LAFAYETTE" playing football on channel 36 or 37.

[DaddyCajun]

How confusing!

The entire time UL was supposed to be on channel 38 and the entire time the Lady Cajuns were actually was on TV, there was a school called "LAFAYETTE" playing football on channel 36 or 37.

There may be people in the "know" that you know, but if the people I know in the "know" are right, things are in the works as you read this post. Official name WILL remain The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. However, the lafayette will be mentioned very little!!

DaddyCajun

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His general statement: I thought it was a very physical game tonight. We were a little short-handed coming into this tournament, and we had an ankle injury last night to Yolanda Jones, our top scorer. She could only play 16 minutes for us tonight with a bad ankle, and Texas wore us down and took advantage of our lack of depth. I am proud of the way we competed. Each game, we go out with the goal of trying to get the most rebounds and shoot close to the basket. But, they were stronger, hit the boards, and had more depth. Texas is going to be a very good team. Tiffany jackson was outstanding for them, and that Bailey kid hurt us on the boards. I must say that No. 15 [Niqky Hughes] did not make my scouting report, and she had a great night. She is a very good player. They are extremely strong and talented and got to line too much. The turning point of the game were those Texas 3's in the second half, back to back. We took the lead and to give up two straight 3-pointers, that was kind of a killer. That gave the momentum back to Texas. The other big thing was free throw's. We made five and they made 21 – that's the big difference right there. The rest of the story

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Playing without its regular point guard and with a limited performance from its best player would be bad enough. Spotting Texas' nationally-ranked women's basketball squad 16 points from the free throw line made it worse. So it may come as a shock that UL held a 43-42 lead over the 25th-ranked Longhorns midway through the second half Monday night on the second day of the Texas Basketball Travelers Classic tournament in Austin, Texas. The Cajuns couldn't hold on, though, as Texas rallied in the final 12 minutes for a 69-59 win over a game-but-short-handed UL squad. "We're just short-handed right now," said UL coach J. Kelley Hall. "But our kids battled and hung in there." UL is without point guard Jeanenne Colbert, who did not make the season-opening trip as a disciplinary action, and had All-Sun Belt Conference selection Yolanda Jones play only two minutes in Monday's second half after an ankle injury in Sunday's 59-39 opening-round win over Texas State. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Close but no cigar.
Keep your chin up ladies we are proud of all of you and your day is coming!

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J. Kelley Hall had never seen anything like it. With 5:26 left in the first half of his UL women's basketball team's Tuesday game against Maryland-Eastern Shore, the Cajuns led 36-2. "I've never coached in a game like that," Hall said. Eventually, UL went on to a 68-36 win over the Hawks in its third and final game in the Texas Travelers Classic in Austin, Texas. The win locked up the runner-up slot in the four-team tournament for the Cajuns (2-1), with host Texas finishing 3-0 in the meet with a 74-55 win over Texas State Tuesday. The Cajuns held the Hawks (0-4) to a 3-for-33 shooting performance in the first half, and had a 27-0 run over a 10-minute first half run. UL led 41-8 at halftime. "They (Eastern Shore) were playing their fourth game in five days, and they were out of gas," Hall said. "They wanted to play, but they had no legs and just couldn't make any shots." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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AUSTIN, Texas – Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns women’s basketball team completed play in the Basketball Travelers Classic at the Frank Erwin Center with its most dominant performance of the three-day event posting a 68-36 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore. The Ragin’ Cajuns (2-1) scored the game’s first nine points and forced UMES (0-4) into missing 24 of their first 25 shots opening up a 36-2 lead 15 minutes into the game. The UL defense held the Hawks to 3-of-33 shooting in the first fame holding UMES to eight points and led 41-8 at intermission – the fewest first-half points allowed under co-head coach J. Kelley Hall. The Ragin’ Cajuns were able to take full advantage of a fatigued UMES squad which was playing its fourth game in as many nights and couldn’t keep up with the relentless intensity of Hall’s Cajuns. The victory assured the Cajuns of a runner-up slot in the Basketball Travelers Classic hosted by Texas. It also avenged a 60-57 loss to UMES in the 2003 Maryland Terrapin Classic. Onna Charles was the leading scorer for Louisiana-Lafayette for the second straight game. The junior from New Iberia scored 19 points made three 3-pointers in 28 minutes. Charles ended the tournament with 11 triples and a scoring average of 16.7 points. Sonora Edwards and Kina Miller joined Charles in double figures as both posted 10 points. They led the Cajuns inside domination which featured a 32-10 edge on points in the paint and a 27-0 margin in second chance points. Even more impressive of the Cajuns domination was that the performance occurred without the services of returning leading scorer Yolanda Jones. Jones sat out of the contest recovering from an ankle injury suffered in Sunday’s Texas State game. Rebounding was another strongpoint of the UL attack. The Cajuns pulled down 57 boards led by 10 from Charles. Alicia McDaniel added nine rebounds, Edwards had eight and Miller tacked on seven. The Hawks got a team-best 11 points from Kristi Veltkamp. The Cajuns defense forced UMES to miss its first eight shot attempts and used a 9-0 run to open a comfortable lead 5:27 into the game. A one minute blitz by the Cajuns broke open a three-point contest and the Cajuns lead was never any smaller. As the clocked ticked under 17 minutes Miller dribble into the lane and found McDaniel behind the defense for an uncontested layup that gave UL a 5-0 lead at 16:51. Charles would follow her miss on a three-point attempt and knocked down jumper at 16:02 pushing the lead to 7-0. The Cajuns game-opening run reached nine points on the next possession when the Cajuns went backdoor once more. Miller was at the top of the key and used excellent court vision to find Edwards behind the defense on the baseline for a reverse layup at 15:33 making it 9-0. The Hawks broke the run with an inside basket from Veltkamp at 15:08. Following the 15-minute media timeout the Cajuns began another run which left no doubt of the game’s final outcome. Miller started a 27-0 run when she grabbed a pass from Whitney Dunlap and backdoored the Hawks defense for a layup at 14:23 upping the UL lead to 11-2. The Cajuns defense would force the Hawks to miss their next 16 shots and Charles delivered the knockout punch. Charles buried three triples between the 13:40 mark and 12:05 mark as the Cajuns lead soared to 20-2. The UL margin grew to 20 points for the rest of the game only nine minutes into the half. Inside baskets from Edwards and Miller 25 seconds apart increased the lead to 24-2 with 10:37 remaining in the first half. A three-pointer by Amber Williams capped off the run and moved the Cajuns lead to 36-2 at 5:26. A triple by Candyce Jeter would be the Hawks first basket since the 15:08 mark and broke a string of 27 unanswered points by UL. The Cajuns defense backed off in the second half committing only one foul. Easing up allowed the Hawks to outscore the Ragin’ Cajuns 28-27 in the second stanza, trimming the halftime deficit by one point. The Cajuns largest lead of the night came at 14:01 when Dunlap made a free throw that moved the UL lead to 54-15. Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns return to action on Thursday, Nov. 16 meeting No. 10 Louisiana State at 7:00 p.m., in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge. LOUISIANA SI

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I don't care if the opponent played a game every day for a month, to make the opponent shoot 1 for 25 to start the game is an unbelievable defensive effort.

Watching the Lady Cajuns this year will be fun.

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Pokey Chatman would like nothing better than to take a day, catch her breath and get her LSU women’s basketball team back on the practice floor for some early season adjustments. University of Louisiana-Lafayette coach J. Kelley Hall can relate. Instead, both will be back in game mode when the Ragin’ Cajuns (2-1) visit the No. 10-ranked Tigers (3-0) at 7 p.m. today. Both teams will playing a fourth game in five days after playing in separate versions of the Basketball Travelers Classic. LSU cruised to victories against West Virginia, Howard and Virginia Tech at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. ULL sandwiched wins over Texas State (59-39) and Maryland-Eastern Shore (68-36) around a gritty effort against host Texas in a 69-59 loss. The busy schedule has left Chatman and Hall little time for sleep, let alone practice. The Rest of the Story By RANDY ROSETTA Advocate sportswriter