I remember the Tennessee loss in the NIT back in the 80's. I don't remember a late loss to Jacksonville with either a half court shot or collapse. By the way I remembered another last second three to win a game. It was a shot by Jay Wright to beat Sam Houston on the road in the second round of the CIT. That was in 2015.
I think ESPN occasionally substitutes that Lafayette Leopard logo for ours for giggles, because of all the calls/emails they have gotten over the years from us and ULM fans to call us/don't call us Louisiana.
I can understand not wearing Louisiana uniforms in Monroe due to the heavy fire ULM's president is receiving in the press over the compromise he reached with Dr. Savoie. But I don't understand why we don't wear them everywhere else if we want that name identified with us in the media.
While ESPN is our biggest problem with name recognition, I would also suggest looking into the following:
1. Why did we not wear Louisiana "away" jerseys to play ULM?
2. Why did ULM refer to us as UL L given the conference directive?
3. Why does Alabama's athletic website (and Tuscaloosa newspaper) still refer to us as Louisiana Lafayette, especially given Coach Murphy's connection to UL?
4. Just what has our athletic department been doing to promote Louisiana outside of simply our use of the name?
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