Final: Louisiana (94) vs La. Tech (86)

[CajunEXPRESS]

Ha. The dude in the aisle seat on 2nd row of 211 with a Tech colored cardigan... Every Tech basket he gave an obnoxious "in your face" type cheer directed toward cajun fans. That was the only dbag I really saw. (In fact, there were a couple of them I enjoyed watching.)

You want to see some bridge jumpers, go to Bulldawg bites or whatever it is. They have given up hope for an at large bid, the ultimate testament to being pretty good.

LTU R is not a good team, they are a good C USA team maybe. Coach was talking them up as being our best opponent this year. Really? We shall see.

They are absolutely much better than the Brokebacks so no matter how we sugarcoat it, that was an awful loss.

[SlappyCajun]

You want to see some bridge jumpers, go to Bulldawg bites or whatever it is. They have given up hope for an at large bid, the ultimate testament to being pretty good.

LTU R is not a good team, they are a good C USA team maybe. Coach was talking them up as being our best opponent this year. Really? We shall see.

They are absolutely much better than the Brokebacks so no matter how we sugarcoat it, that was an awful loss.

They were in the Top 25 last year and returned four starters. They were projected to be an 11 or 12 seed in the tourney and have a likely 2nd round NBA draft pick. I think Ga State is more talented. But, Tech is good

[CajunEXPRESS]

They were so good last year they failed to be an at large team.

Their own fan base acknowledges that they cannot play against good big people, and WKU will run them.

They are more likely a NIT team if that.

All I am saying is we lost to a very bad Brokeback team, and beat a pretty good LTU R team that is NOT GOOD. GOOD IS being at least an at large quality NCAA team. They will not be an at large team, and will not be better than a 12 seed if they win their tournament.

[CRAWFISH61]

What you are saying is that no matter what this team does with Marlin as head coach it won't be an accomplishment unless they beat Duke, Uconn and Kentucky on the road 3 games in a row. We get it. You have no respect for our opponents or our team.

[duggie85]

They were so good last year they failed to be an at large team.

Their own fan base acknowledges that they cannot play against good big people, and WKU will run them.

They are more likely a NIT team if that.

All I am saying is we lost to a very bad Brokeback team, and beat a pretty good LTU R team that is NOT GOOD. GOOD IS being at least an at large quality NCAA team. They will not be an at large team, and will not be better than a 12 seed if they win their tournament.

Thanks, Nostradamus.

What are you seein for our future? Please tell.

[Just1More]

What you are saying is that no matter what this team does with Marlin as head coach it won't be an accomplishment unless they beat Duke, Uconn and Kentucky on the road 3 games in a row. We get it. You have no respect for our opponents or our team.

No, that's not what he's saying. He doesn't care if it's Marlin coaching or not. What he's saying is that he sets the bar a whole lot higher than perhaps most other, if not all, Cajun fans. There's going to be a guy amongst us that sets that bar above everyone else. I think that guy may be Express.

I was once strutting up the aisle steps at a game at Cajun Field... in my red thong... and as the entire crowd rose to their feet and applauded me... there was one guy that yelled out, "I've seen better!". I was never sure who that guy was... but I believe it to be none other than Express. His standards are quite simply... off the charts of reality.

[zephyr]

Wow! That was old fashioned ___ kicking. Hopefully a big wake up call for our team. Shawning us a stud..we had no answer. I guess everybody has a bad game know & then but I can't believe this sand UL squad lost to McNeese St by 10 last week.

Unfortunately, that's basketball. This has been the story of our year thus far......Inconsistency. This is also a reason we have been so frustrated with this team because we all know they are capable of such wins and even better. The question is...Will we build off of this win or go lose to Northwestern State?

[zephyr]

Why is that necessary? At the end of the season we will be making a run at post season ...they wont.

Z

Because he was just countering a semi-dumb comment. There is nothing wrong with it and it has merit. We want to beat our chest about being the best in state outside of LSU, we have to beat the likes of McNeese. Its pretty simple. While some of you get ____ed when that game is mentioned and will likely do so for the future, it should at least concern you minimally that we are showing such inconsistency. Hopefully, that loss and this big win are the two things that start us off on that postseason journey but to ignore that bad loss is just as fruitless as ignoring the big win we just had.

We finally played like we are capable of playing and beat a team our equal. Hopefully Shawn is getting healthy again and it seems we are definitely settling into our starting PG for the season and utilizing Shepherd at a combo guard rather than strictly PG. Crap like the McNeese game happens in basketball but the thing that makes you a good team is improving from it and moving on. If we can do that, that loss could be one of the best things that happens to us. If we don't and we continue to play .500 ball, it would just prove that we are not really improving as a program.

[cajun4life]

LA Tech was 63-16 the last two seasons plus before tonight. They won 29 games last year and have four of their five starters back.

Make no mistake about it. We beat a VERY good club tonight.

Cry over the spilled milk in Lake Charles all you like. Cajun fans should be savoring this one.

BTW Tech is 37-1 over their last 38 home games. Guess who the loss was to?

Jay it isn't that we don't Cherrish that win because we do!

It is the up and down play that we have gotten from this team so far this season. There is no way we should have lost to McNeese, Tulsa or even Auburn if we play with the type of intensity and consistancy that we showed last night!

That is the biggest issue to me.

[zephyr]

You want to see some bridge jumpers, go to Bulldawg bites or whatever it is. They have given up hope for an at large bid, the ultimate testament to being pretty good.

LTU R is not a good team, they are a good C USA team maybe. Coach was talking them up as being our best opponent this year. Really? We shall see.

They are absolutely much better than the Brokebacks so no matter how we sugarcoat it, that was an awful loss.

Yes.....Really.

[duggie85]

Because he was just countering a semi-dumb comment. There is nothing wrong with it and it has merit. We want to beat our chest about being the best in state outside of LSU, we have to beat the likes of McNeese. Its pretty simple. While some of you get ____ed when that game is mentioned and will likely do so for the future, it should at least concern you minimally that we are showing such inconsistency. Hopefully, that loss and this big win are the two things that start us off on that postseason journey but to ignore that bad loss is just as fruitless as ignoring the big win we just had.

Geez dude, my comment was shat talking to the douche Tech fans who have nothing better to do than start game threads on their opponents message board because they were fully expecting a win.

We are all full aware that we lost to McNeese. We don't need your novel to remind us.

[CrazyCajun]

We haven't won at mcneese since 1999... That's a lot of really good teams between now and then that haven't won there.