The Book: Lady Cajuns 2006-07 basketball

[DestinCajun]

Are the female coaches against a gender clearifying remark to know what team? Can I say female? LOL

GEAUX RAGIN' CAJUN FEMALES KICK SOME MARQUETTE FEMALE BASKETBALL BUTT.

How about Ragin' Cajuns because that's who they are? If you have them confused with the men's team then just pay closer attention.

[Boomer]

Les Dames Cajuns!!!! Have no idea if this is correct!!!

[Just1More]

Let's just get down to the bottom line. We love the Ragin Cajun Women's Basketball Team and Coaches. Now, let's show the love.

[Turbine]

How about Ragin' Cajuns because that's who they are? If you have them confused with the men's team then just pay closer attention.

Look when it comes to UL sports everyone knows the Lady Cajuns are Ragin' Cajuns.

Just like they know Cajuns means Ragin Cajuns. Do you have a problem with Cajuns? I ask because when you get away from University of Louisiana sports Cajuns simply means a people and Cajun Women means a people. But everyone knows (without having to pay extra attention) that Lady Cajuns without exception refers to a University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Team.

Problem is you will never find a headline reference to a University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Team. There is limited headline room so all the descriptive words get dropped.

Having a headlines that read "Cajuns Win Basketball Game" next to a headline that reads "Cajuns Win Basketball Game” and tell people to just pay closer attention is ludicrous. A headline HAS to tell you as much as possible in as few words as possible.

Lady Cajuns says it all! It says you fully support University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Teams and you do not want their efforts burried in a pile of generic headlines that require extra homework to decifer.

jmo

[NewsCopy]

UL women's basketball team started hitting its stride in early January, and coach J. Kelley Hall has a good idea why. "When we started winning a lot of games, you can directly attribute that to Sonora Edwards becoming more consistent," Hall said. "It's like a light bulb came on for her. We needed her badly, and she's improved in leaps and bounds." During the last 10 games in the regular season, the 6-foot-2 junior from Snook, Texas, had double-figure scoring efforts seven times and averaged 9.3 rebounds. But it was one shot, a winning basket with six seconds left against Arkansas State in the Sun Belt Tournament semifinal, that may have been the biggest in UL earning its first NCAA Tournament berth. That berth comes Saturday when the 11th-seeded Cajuns (25-8) meet sixth-seeded Marquette (25-6) in a first-round NCAA game in Austin, Texas. And once again, the Cajuns will be looking for a major contribution from Edwards against a talented Golden Eagle team that finished tied for second in the Big East Conference. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[DestinCajun]

Look when it comes to UL sports everyone knows the Lady Cajuns are Ragin' Cajuns.

Just like they know Cajuns means Ragin Cajuns. Do you have a problem with Cajuns? I ask because when you get away from University of Louisiana sports Cajuns simply means a people and Cajun Women means a people. But everyone knows (without having to pay extra attention) that Lady Cajuns without exception refers to a University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Team.

Problem is you will never find a headline reference to a University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Team. There is limited headline room so all the descriptive words get dropped.

Having a headlines that read "Cajuns Win Basketball Game" next to a headline that reads "Cajuns Win Basketball Game” and tell people to just pay closer attention is ludicrous. A headline HAS to tell you as much as possible in as few words as possible.

Lady Cajuns says it all! It says you fully support University of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Women’s Teams and you do not want their efforts burried in a pile of generic headlines that require extra homework to decifer.

jmo

What's next the "Gentleman Cajuns"?

[Zeebart21]

What's next the "Gentleman Cajuns"?

Dude Cajuns

Dudette Cajuns

I wonder if they have this problem at South Carolina with the "Cocks"?

Z.

[VObserver]

Dude Cajuns

Dudette Cajuns

I wonder if they have this problem at South Carolina with the "Cocks"?

Z.

No, to be technically correct their teams are the "USC Gamehens", though I doubt they use that name.

[Zeebart21]

No, to be technically correct their teams are the "USC Gamehens", though I doubt they use that name.

I just know what I see on the caps them boyz wear.

Z.

[Turbine]

What's next the "Gentleman Cajuns"?

LOL So you have been reading Kate Chopin have you?

It seems (to me) what You, Jay and Gay are guilty of is concentrating your attention and energy on a single word in a phrase instead of the phrase.

The phrase "Lady Cajuns" has a winning aura, always has, always will.

Taking a splitting myopic view of "Lady ------ Cajuns" to the point where it somehow doesn’t mean they are Ragin' Cajuns would be like renaming all the buildings belonging to the University that end in "Hall" because we can't have a building named after a passageway.

Another example of taking a splitting myopic view of a term would be taking "Ragin ------ Cajuns” literally. That would be a mistake, you and I both know the term has more meaning than the individual words and certainly never meant that Cajuns were violent with explosive anger and mad at the world.

jmo

[CajunCherokee]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/ncaato...ory?id=2796452

ESPN's Take

With Middle Tennessee ahead of them in the league race, there's no shame in being the second-best team in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Ragin' Cajuns, in fact, have finished as the league's runner-up the past two seasons. But this time, the selection committee extended a rare at-large invitation to a mid-major, so University of Louisiana is dancing for the first time and enters the NCAA Tournament with a 25-8 record.

Yolanda Jones leads University of Louisiana, averaging a double-double of 17.9 points and 10.4 rebounds. The 6-foot-1 senior power forward, who shoots 47 percent from the field, led the Ragin' Cajuns in scoring in all but 10 games, including two 30-point performances. While Jones also posts a team-high 67 steals, she has almost twice as many turnovers (104) than assists (59).

Junior center Sonora Edwards (10.2 ppg, 8.1 rpg) and junior shooting guard Onna Charles (11.8 ppg, 4.4 rpg) are the only other Ragin' Cajuns in double figures. Edwards leads La.-Lafayette with 48 percent shooting from the field. Charles is the team's 3-point threat, hitting 56 treys on the season.

Senior point guard Jeanenne Colbert is the ballhandler of the bunch, dishing out 4.5 assists per game.

Defense is a strength. The Ragin' Cajuns average eight steals while holding opponents to 58 points per game. Plus, foes shoot just 29 percent from 3-point range and 35 percent from the field. That stalwart defense and a plus-10 rebounding margin help make up for La.-Lafayette's 17.5 turnovers per game, 63 percent accuracy at the foul line and 32 percent shooting from beyond the arc.

Against fellow NCAA Tournament teams, University of Louisiana went 0-3, including two losses to Middle Tennessee by a combined 37 points, though the second loss was by 10. The Ragin' Cajuns also got pummeled by LSU, 65-31, back on Nov. 16.

-- Melanie Jackson

[Turbine]

foes shoot just 29 percent from 3-point range and 35 percent from the field

Key . . . seems to me.