The Book: Lady Cajuns 2006-07 basketball

[CajunProud]

I am not a big basketball fan in general, but I do support the Cajuns in every sport, and I have to say that the job Coach Hall and his staff have done with this program is nothing short of amazing. Congrats to him and the Lady Cajuns.

Don't worry about this loss. Keep working hard, and your sweat equity (as Coach Robe says) will payoff in the end.

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It should be a tune-up game to prepare UL's women's basketball squad for the stretch run of the Sun Belt Conference season. It should be an opportunity for the Ragin' Cajuns to play a lot of players and keep people fresh for that closing drive. But more than anything else, UL coach J. Kelley Hall is hoping tonight's 7 p.m. non-conference home contest against Savannah State provides a catharsis from last weekend's bitter memories. UL was woman-handled 84-57 by 20th-ranked Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro Sunday afternoon, and Hall is seeking to put that game out of sight and out of mind at Long Gym tonight. "We've got to put the Middle Tennessee game behind us," Hall said Tuesday morning. "We'll regroup in practice today (Tuesday) and start doing the things we have to do if we want to take another step forward." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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OK, who threw the switch? Who took over for UL's women's basketball team, which found itself behind an outmanned Savannah State team 23-20 five minutes before halftime Wednesday night? It was - surprise - the Ragin' Cajun bench, which contributed two double-figure scorers, 35 points, 22 rebounds and six steals while lighting the fuse in what turned into a runaway 82-51 victory at Long Gym. The Cajuns (18-6), playing a rare late-season non-conference game, struggled early in hitting only eight of its first 29 shots. Savannah State wasn't faring much better, but did run in six straight points on back-to-back baskets by Ivy Smith and Shamice James to take its only lead. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[ulforlife]

I went to the game last night, it was my FIRST EVER lady cajuns game. Let me just say that in the 2nd half, they went off.

[Turbine]

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I see where 3 Lady Cajuns are averaging double figures. That is pretty good.

On that page if you follow the complete stats link, it shows Yolanda Jones with 400 points on the season. If I am not mistaken she had over 500 points last year so how cool would it be for her to make the 1000 point club in just 2 years.

[lcitsh]

100 points is no problem. They have at least 8 games left. She'll make it easily.

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NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans returns to the road with a two-game swing starting with the Ragin’ Cajuns of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the first game of a Sun Belt Conference double header. The Lady Privateers (7-16, 1-11 Sun Belt) will meet Louisiana-Lafayette in the longest running current series for New Orleans. The voice of the Privateers, Mike Wagenheim, will broadcast the game live on Biz Radio 990-AM which is also available by logging on to unoprivateers.com. New Orleans and the Ragin’ Cajuns have met 61 times. New Orleans holds the advantage 43-18 despite ULL’s current seven-game winning streak. The Lady Privateers had their last series win on February 9, 2003 defeating ULL 63-47 at home. The 61 game is the longest series for the Privateers. The Ragin’ Cajun won the previous meeting this season in New Orleans, 77-51. The Lady Privateers are in a stretch of seven straight losses overall. In addition, New Orleans is on a 17-game Sun Belt Conference Road losing streak. The Lady Privateers last win over a Sun Belt Conference foe was over Denver in 2005. New Orleans won the game 56-46 at Denver on January 27th. The win is Amy Champion’s only Sun Belt Conference Road victory. The rest of the story

[RonMexico]

another brutal beat down.

L'Ronte'

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It's known in basketball terms as putting one away early. A 28-2 run in the first 12 minutes will do that. UL's Lady Cajuns basketball team used that bulge and effectively ran away from New Orleans' Privateers, eventually taking an easy-as-expected 75-47 victory in its return to Sun Belt Conference play. The Cajuns (19-6, 10-3), taking dead aim on a Wednesday battle at Arkansas State that may decide the Sun Belt Western Division title, held the Privateers without a field goal for more than 10 minutes, while building as much as a 30-7 lead. "We were able to establish what we wanted to do defensively," said Cajun coach J. Kelley Hall, whose team rebuilt a one and one-half game lead in the West with the win. "If we can force teams to miss, rebound the ball and get it out clean, we've been able to hurt people in transition." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Only once before has a UL women's basketball team won 10 games in a conference season. Only twice before have the Cajun women reached 19 overall wins. Coach J. Kelley Hall's squad hit both of those marks Saturday in its easy 75-47 victory over New Orleans, but very few paid attention to those numbers. The only figures the Cajuns players are noticing these days are those listed in the Sun Belt Conference standings, especially since UL worked its way to the top of the Western Division. Saturday's win rebuilt the Cajuns' West lead to 1 1/2 games heading into a key Wednesday matchup with second-place Arkansas State. It also meant that even with a loss Wednesday, UL would still be in first place one week from now. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Wednesday's UL women's basketball game at Arkansas State could be the difference in the Ragin' Cajuns rolling through the rest of the Sun Belt Conference schedule or having to fight and claw all the way to the end. That may be too simplified, but then again, maybe not. If the Cajuns can continue their recent success and ASU's recent Sun Belt struggles continue, UL would have controlling interest in the Western Division late Friday night. "The pressure's on us," said Cajun coach J. Kelley Hall Monday. "We've got to go there and win. This is one of the games we circled at the start of the year. It's one that could give us some breathing room and get us off the hook on a tiebreaker." The Cajuns (19-6) are 10-3 in the West entering Wednesday's 7 p.m. game at ASU's Convocation Center. ASU (15-8) is second in the West at 8-4, but the Indians have the advantage of a 65-58 overtime win at EKL earlier this year. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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JONESBORO, Ark. - Try as they might, UL's women's basketball team can't get its first conference loss out of its thoughts. One that came way back on Dec. 16, in its friendly Long Gym confines, still stands out. Tonight, the Ragin' Cajuns find out if it will haunt them in their postseason quest. The Cajuns (19-6, 10-3) travel to face Arkansas State's Indians, seeking a measure of revenge from a 65-58 overtime loss to ASU in the Sun Belt Conference opener. But more than revenge is at stake in the 7 p.m. game at ASU's Convocation Center. UL holds a 1 1/2-game lead over ASU (15-8, 8-4) in the Sun Belt West Division. A UL win would put the Cajuns two games up on the rest of the West with four to play and start the engraving process on the trophy. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com