The Book: 2007-08 Ragin' Cajuns Basketball

[geo_cajun]

"We defended him well, he just made a tough shot"

I LOVE that!!

[DestinCajun]

WHOO HOOO!! What a big road win against the conference favorites! Way to go guys! _

A tough opponent with some very impressive OOC wins already that was on a long home court win streak and picked first in the SBC West.

As they use to say on Bedico Creek, "It just don't get any better'n that".

[rhineaux]

_ "We defended him well, he just made a tough shot"

I LOVE that!! _

Is it official? Are you legit now?

[Cajun Express]

_ One win is not worth the cost. However, he may be the difference in 5 or 6 wins which will allow the coach to keep his job. That may be why he made the move. Also, our school needs something positive in the worst way right now as we embark on an effort to raise funds for athletics. I was for redshirting Bureau too. However, the problems we were having scoring indicated to me we would have been looking at a season with about 5 or 6 wins total without another guy being able to score on the floor. _

CM, You and I see it totally different. Redshirts in basketball may have some benefit if your team is loaded and doing well. I mean think about this. We were saving this guy by redshirting for something that might be of value five seasons in the future. Not a chance. Play your best basketball players in almost every case.

You also made a comment somewhere that Bureau might not have wanted to play this late in the season. I highly doubt that. These good players are highly competitive and motivated. I know he might even say the accepted thing about redshirting, but down deep these young men want to play. Maybe if we were over half way into the conference season he may want to maintain his redshirt status. That is not the case, the season is not nearly done from a numbers standpoint.

[CajunKahouna]

Great win. Congratulations to the team, Robert and staff.

We all needed that! Could this be the start of someting BIG?

[RaginFan2]

Is it official? Are you legit now?

Depends on what you mean by "legit"! He does indeed now have diploma in hand. Also, today he started his "gainful employment" segment of life. His dad & mom are proud! BTW, Z, he has joined SSOOT! Hope he doesn't bring down the "standards"!

[Zeebart21]

Depends on what you mean by "legit"! He does indeed now have diploma in hand. Also, today he started his "gainful employment" segment of life. His dad & mom are proud! BTW, Z, he has has joined SSOOT! Hope he doesn't bring down the "standards"!

geo,Rhineaux, Me, Hammer, Cajunsmike, Crawfish, etc., all members of SSOOT... Its a great class of people.

Z

[RaginFan2]

geo,Rhineaux, Me, Hammer, Cajunsmike, Crawfish, etc., all members of SSOOT... Its a great class of people.

Z

Sounds like a great group to me!

[NewsCopy]

Fresh off the heels of a thrilling 68-67 win at ULM Sunday, Louisiana looks to build on the momentum of its 1-0 conference start when it faces the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors in game two of the Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic Wednesday night at the Stan Sheriff Center..Louisiana leads the all-time series with Hawai’i 6-5, with the Rainbow Warriors winning the last three meetings...All 11 previous meeting have come on Hawai’i’s home court. However, only the last two meetings have come in a tournament setting...Wednesday’s game marks the first meeting since Dec. 27, 1998, when the Rainbow Warriors edged the Ragin’ Cajuns 54-51. Reginald Poole scored 13 points, while pulling down a game-high 21 rebounds in the three-point loss...Wednesday will be Robert Lee’s second meeting with Hawai’i, but his first as head coach. Lee was an assistant coach for Louisiana when the Cajuns played in the 1998 Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic...During Sunday’s one-point win, head coach Robert Lee assembled his sixth straight different starting lineup...Since scoring a career-high 26 points vs. UAB, Elijah Millsap is averaging 7.8 points in his last four games. During that span, Millsap is shooting 24 percent from the field (7-of-29), while hitting 75 percent of his free throws (15-of-20)...Rookie point guard Randell Daigle has made at least one 3-point basket in each of his last six games, leading the team with 13 triples... After shooting a dismal 56 percent from the free throw line as a team in the first games of the season, UL has shot 71.9 percent in its last four games. UL has also shot 70 percent or better in two of its last three games. Hawai'i Preview. Hawai’i enters the Rainbow Classic with a 3-4 overall record - all three wins coming at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Warriors are averaging 74.7 points per game in their three victories this season, while posting just 69.0 points per game in their four losses...Bobby Nash leads the Warriors with a 17.0-point-per-game average, while Riley Luettgerodt is second with 15.0 points per game...Hawai’i is 72-57 (.558) all-time in 43 years of the Rainbow Classic. UH, however, has won 11 titles, including five of the last six. Hawai’i has advanced to the championship bracket 11 straight years...Hawai’i has won its last three home games and defense has played a big part. UH has held its last three opponents - Alcorn State, Coppin State, Long Beach state - to 56.7 points per game, with none of them cracking the 60-point barrier. During that same stretch, UH’s opponents have shot just 35 percent from the floor and have been out-rebounded 42-33...UH got off to its first 0-2 start in 14 years with both losses coming at home (San Diego, Illinois). The last time UH lost its first two home games of the year was during Riley Wallace’s first season at UH in 1987-77, when they lost four in a row. UH’s loss to Illinois was only its eighth in 50 non-conference games at the Stan Sheriff Center since the start of the 2001-02 season. The last time UH lost back-to-back games came in the 2000-01 season when it fell to Tennessee and UTEP. After Facing Hawai'i in Rainbow Classic. After facing the host Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors Wednesday night, Louisiana will face either the Ohio Bobcats or the St. John’s Red Storm. If the Cajuns play Ohio, it will be the fourth school that both the football and men’s basketball teams have played this season in non-conference action...Louisiana’s football and men’s hoops teams have also played McNeese State, UCF and Tennessee. Unfortunately, all three resulted in losses for both teams. Louisiana's Last Visit to the Rainbow Classic. This week will mark Louisiana’s second trip to Outigger Rainbow Classic. The Cajuns made their first appearance in 1998, when they were still known as Southwestern Louisiana...In Louisiana’s last trip to Outrigger Rainbow Classic, the Ragin’ Cajuns went 0-for-3, falling to Hawai’i (54-51), Murray State (81-68) and Mississippi State (62-58). Bench is More. In Sunday’s huge win at ULM, Louisiana’s bench out-scored ULM 45-12! Even more impressive is that the Cajuns’ reserves scored 40 of their 45 points in the second half...Of those 45 bench points, 38 came from a trio of Cajuns rookies - Chris Gradnigo (15), Randell Daigle (12) and Travis Bureau (11)...In the second half, the trio scored 33 of its 38 points in the second half. The Freshman '15'. Freshman Chris Gradnigo scored a career-high 15 points, including the game-winning shot to knock off the ULM Warhawks 68-67 Sunday in Monroe. Gradnigo, who also wears jersey No. 15, has scored a career-high 15 points three times this season - two of them coming in victories...Gradnigo’s other 15-point performance came in Louisiana’s 98-70 loss at No. 11 Tennessee, when he held Tennessee’s Chris Lofton to seven points. RaginCajuns.com

[cjntgr]

We have a great chance of picking up our third win of the season on tomorrow. Anyone know who else we may play in the tourney?

[rhineaux]

Could be any of the other 4 teams that are there.

Ohio
St. John's
Tulane
Georgia
East Tennessee St

[NewsCopy]

Minutes after his impressive debut Sunday in UL's 68-67 win at UL-Monroe to open Sun Belt Conference play, Travis Bureau finally showed some nerves. But this had nothing to do with playing basketball. It had everything to do with the 4,417-mile flight the Ragin' Cajuns (2-6 overall, 1-0 SBC) would make Monday to Honolulu, Hawaii, where they would play three games in four days in the Rainbow Classic before returning to Lafayette on Sunday. Bureau dreaded making the trip. In fact, the freshman forward stayed up all Sunday night and Monday morning so he could sleep undisturbed during the flight. But he was looking forward to doing one thing once he landed in Hawaii. "I'm definitely going to the beach," said Bureau, whose Cajuns play Hawaii (3-4) at 11:30 p.m. (CST) today. "I've been to the beach, but it's Hawaii. It's a new experience." The rest of the story Joshua Parrott jparrott@theadvertiser.com