MBB Final: Louisiana 113, Louisiana College 58

[VObserver]

Guys we need to get a grip every college does this early in the season, here are our conference foes opponents in the first couple of games:

Little Rock played Ouachita Baptist (FYI they lost by 2) and Ozark College
App State played Toccoa Falls and Tennessee Wesleyan
Georgia Southern plays Bluefield State
Georgia State played Carver College and Point College
UTA plays Texas-Dallas
Arkansas State plays Henderson State and Culver Stockton
Coastal Carolina played Piedmont International and St. Andrews
South Alabama played Mobile and Trinity
Tory played Brewton Parker, Milligan and Delta State
Texas State plays McMurry College and Ecclesia College
ULM plays Rust and College and Milsaps


First day of College basketball last Friday, these are D1A schools playing D2, D3 or NAIA Teams:

Eastern Michigan vs Spring Arbor
Stetson vs Webber International
Middle Tennessee vs Trevecca Nazarene
New Hampshire vs Wheelock College
Jackson State vs Millsaps
The Citadel vs Oglethorpe
Central Michigan vs Siena Heights
Eastern Michigan vs Wall Walla
James Madison vs Brigewater
Holy Cross vs Sacred Heart
North Texas vs Eureka
Rutgers vs CCNY
Tennessee vs Prebyterian
Furman vs Bob Jones
UMASS vs UMASS-Lowell
Harvard vs MIT
Radford vs Georgia Southwestern
Liberty vs Summit
Florida Int vs Florida Memorial
SMSU vs Mo. Baptist
Lipscomb vs Emory
La Tech vs Texas-Tyler
Charlotte vs Methodist
Deleware State vs Carin University
Incarnate Word vs Southwestern
Oral Roberts vs Avila
Valparasio vs North Park
Jacksonville State vs Tennessee Wesleyan
Murray State vs Brescia
Fresno State vs UC Santa Cruz
Milwaukee vs Wisc Lacrosse
Southern Miss vs Southern New Orleans
Bethune Cookman vs Johnson University
NC A&T vs Greensboro College
Maryland Eastern Shore vs Valley Forge
SLU vs Centanary
Abilene Christian vs Randall University
Texas A&M Corpus vs Our Lady of the Lake
Tennessee Tech vs Midway
UTEP vs La College
NMSU vs East Central
Montana vs Whitworth
Santa Clara vs La Verne
CSU Bakerfield vs Whittier
Boise State vs Eastern Oregon
SDSU vs San Diego Christian
SJSU vs Antelope Valley
CSU Northridge vs Life Pacific
NIU vs St Francis (IL)

Day 2
Western Michigan vs Sienna Heights
Drake vs Coe College
Brown vs Johnson and Wales (RI)
App State vs Toccoa Falls
Little Rock vs Ouachita Baptist
South Dakota State vs Mayville State
Elon vs William Peace
UNC Wilmington vs NC Wesleyan
SHSU vs Texas Tyler
Western Ill vs St Mary's (MN)

Day 3
Northern Kentucky vs Wilmington OH
Wofford vs Washington Lee
Mercer vs Toccoa Falls
Eastern Michigan vs Michigan Dearborn
South Dakota State vs University of Mary
Loyola Chicago vs Eureka
South Carolina Upstate vs Allen
App State Vs Bridgewater
Northeastern vs Wentworth
UTSA vs East Central
Hartford vs Gordon College
Fort Wayne vs Defiance
Central Ark vs University of the Ozarks
Northwestern State vs Le Tourneau
UMKC vs Haskell
Hampton vs Bluefield College (not Bluefield State they are different)
Seattle vs Puget Sound

Day 4
Drexel vs Arcadia Univeristy
Towson vs Frostburg State
Detroit Mercy vs Michigan Dearborn
Cambell vs Columbia International
UNC Asheville vs Lees McRae
Norfolk State vs Lynchburg
IUPI vs Anderson (IN)
Incarnate Word vs Trinity
McNeese vs Ecclesia
Valparaiso vs Trinity (IL)
Tennessee State vs Reinhardt
South Al vs Mobile
St Louis vs Rockhurst
Northern Arizona vs Embry Riddle
Idaho vs George Fox

Day 5
Toledo vs Ohio Northern
Dartmouth vs Emerson
Army vs John Jay
SHSU vs Hardin Simmons
Youngstown State vs Franciscan University
Houston Baptist vs Arlington Baptist
UL vs Louisiana College
Chicago State vs Silver Lake College
Weber State vs West Coast Baptist
Pepperdine vs Cal Lutheran
Long Beach State vs San Francisco State (Not USF)
UC Irvine vs Chapman
Sacramento State vs Notre Dame de Namur
Portland vs Walla Walla
Portland State vs Willamette


These are just the ones that have happened so far. I know I missed a few.

Dave, you did a lot of work there.

Honestly, I could not possibly care less what other schools do; I want our school to play a schedule in which every game is a challenge. Playing teams that do not challenge our players does nothing to make us better.

[zephyr]

He did it at the Dome last night also.

Good. I was reacting to the post above saying he couldn't do it. I figure that was a typo of some sort now.

[wcd35]

Good. I was reacting to the post above saying he couldn't do it. I figure that was a typo of some sort now.

Yeah I think that was a typo. With PJ and Cedric, we have two lethal deep shooters. They had some nice pull-up and catch and shoot threes each.

PJ had a solid game, even handling the ball. I thought he showed he can make smart decisions from the point and get passes into the guys who need the ball.

Games like this obviously don't show you much and we got cute trying to lob a few times and make silly passes, but I liked seeing guys hit open shots at the bare minimum.

Gant didn't show off great hands at times, but he is an athlete. He can be a great rebounder just based off of his jumping ability.

[CajunJeaux]

Dave, you did a lot of work there.

Honestly, I could not possibly care less what other schools do; I want our school to play a schedule in which every game is a challenge. Playing teams that do not challenge our players does nothing to make us better.

You need to start a consulting business for college basketball schedulingyou could make a killing.

[Cajunsmike]

Yeah I think that was a typo. With PJ and Cedric, we have two lethal deep shooters. They had some nice pull-up and catch and shoot threes each.

PJ had a solid game, even handling the ball. I thought he showed he can make smart decisions from the point and get passes into the guys who need the ball.

Games like this obviously don't show you much and we got cute trying to lob a few times and make silly passes, but I liked seeing guys hit open shots at the bare minimum.

Gant didn't show off great hands at times, but he is an athlete. He can be a great rebounder just based off of his jumping ability.

The team was sloppy in first half. Obviously, not amped for game and that is understandable. Stove would have helped in that regard as he brings it every night. However, it was good to see the team hit 50% of three point shots. Note just about every one of those was a wide open look which does say something positive about execution in the second half. It was encouraging to see Hardy especially hit a few as he has been in a slump since the middle of last season. Maybe that will get him going for future games. Finally, Russell has as smooth a stroke as any player I have seen in all my years of watching Cajun basketball.

[facelessjonmoon]

Russell sure could stroke it at Ole Miss.

Sorry, that was a typo. He surely can stroke it. He is one of the smoothest shooters I have ever seen

[Ragin4U]

Dave, you did a lot of work there.

Honestly, I could not possibly care less what other schools do; I want our school to play a schedule in which every game is a challenge. Playing teams that do not challenge our players does nothing to make us better.

Every game helps. These are used to build team chemistry, work on new sets, get the kids thinking for themselves on the court, etc. Think of it as a scrimmage.

Of course, some just want to batch and moan about Marlin.

[VObserver]

Every game helps. These are used to build team chemistry, work on new sets, get the kids thinking for themselves on the court, etc. Think of it as a scrimmage.

Of course, some just want to batch and moan about Marlin.

We can agree to disagree. Playing a team like this has no positive value. We could do anything we wanted to do against LC. That is impossible against any team in D1, let alone any decent D1 squad.

[CajunNation]

If you are going to play DII schools, call them what they are: exhibition games, and do not make it part of the season ticket package.

They are just practice games that can only kill your Tourney chances.

[Turbine]

Zero resistance exercise can serve a purpose.

Not exactly sure what that purpose would be.

Meeting a brick wall to start a season would be more detrimental in my opinion.

I have seen the season long bad results of facing an immovable object right out of the gate in football way to many years.

I'd opt for a zero resistance opener in basketball to get the team on the same page.

jmo

[CajunEXPRESS]

So Turbine? Is there a barrier that’s something other than a ten foot brick wall, or a ten foot limbo bar? Maybe a three foot hurdle requiring effort and reward.

As stated before we’d get better competition in a red and white game. We’d get a better reward playing and losing to a top 150 RPI team on the road. The only thing we got out of this game was time to practice at home.

Frankly I’d have preferred practice at home, and a road game in Florida against top competition maybe Thursday. That way the team would be rested when they get to the islands, have a meaningful game that Marlin could use to teach.

[Cajunsmike]

So Turbine? Is there a barrier that's something other than a ten foot brick wall, or a ten foot limbo bar? Maybe a three foot hurdle requiring effort and reward.

As stated before we'd get better competition in a red and white game. We'd get a better reward playing and losing to a top 150 RPI team on the road. The only thing we got out of this game was time to practice at home.

Frankly I'd have preferred practice at home, and a road game in Florida against top competition maybe Thursday. That way the team would be rested when they get to the islands, have a meaningful game that Marlin could use to teach.

Note we do have a home game against a D1 opponent on Friday afternoon. That would make it tough to play on Thursday in Florida. One of the reasons they play a couple of games like last night is to avoid playing 13 home games and 18 road games. That would result in the additional travel impacting class time and academics. It also allows some of the backup guys who don't play much to get time in a real game. Still, I understand the view that these games should not have regular prices charged. Perhaps they should be half price in the season ticket package. This discussion about the non D1 teams on the schedule happens every year and all views are valid. At this point virtually all the comments have been made before and we are repeating ourselves. Keep in mind that although the basketball staff makes the schedule the new AD was here when it was finalized and he approved it. Therefore I would be shocked if the policy changes going forward. Not that it matters to our situation but several mid majors are now playing 3 non D1 games (Rice amongst them) in order to have a few non conference home games.

[zephyr]

Zero resistance exercise can serve a purpose.

Not exactly sure what that purpose would be.

Meeting a brick wall to start a season would be more detrimental in my opinion.

I have seen the season long bad results of facing an immovable object right out of the gate in football way to many years.

I'd opt for a zero resistance opener in basketball to get the team on the same page.

jmo

Kentucky played Kansas. Duke played Michigan State. Those brick walls are tearing those programs down. I got to tell you.

[zephyr]

So which one of you ___ clowns gave me a red thumb for an obvious auto correct typo?

You seriously think I would single out one of our best shooters in a very long time by saying he can't shoot? Yeah right. He is the real deal

Wasn't me pads. I don't even do the green dot red dot thing. It is a shame that someone would do that though. I figured as such when you posted it but wanted to make sure.

[zephyr]

Note we do have a home game against a D1 opponent on Friday afternoon. That would make it tough to play on Thursday in Florida. One of the reasons they play a couple of games like last night is to avoid playing 13 home games and 18 road games. That would result in the additional travel impacting class time and academics. It also allows some of the backup guys who don't play much to get time in a real game. Still, I understand the view that these games should not have regular prices charged. Perhaps they should be half price in the season ticket package. This discussion about the non D1 teams on the schedule happens every year and all views are valid. At this point virtually all the comments have been made before and we are repeating ourselves. Keep in mind that although the basketball staff makes the schedule the new AD was here when it was finalized and he approved it. Therefore I would be shocked if the policy changes going forward. Not that it matters to our situation but several mid majors are now playing 3 non D1 games (Rice amongst them) in order to have a few non conference home games.

No explanation needed Mike as we've gone over this for a long time and you've explained it for a long time. Some will never not ____ and moan about playing these teams although it apparently is tougher and tougher for the mid major types to get quality opponents to play them at home now. I was watching the UNC - Bucknell game last night and they were talking about how Bucknell has to travel from Arkansas, UNC and then play Maryland all in an 8 day stretch. Teams like this fight the same issues we face. It doesn't help justify the season ticket prices, I get it but its not just our program.