MBB Final: Louisiana 105, Nicholls 80

[Hatch]

The depth really showed tonight, doing that without Stroman and making the big run with Bryce on the bench was impressive. I thought Marquetti really stepped it up rebounding when Bryce got the 4th foul, he is a well rounded player. Stove seems to be over the injury, he was leaping out the gym on some of those dunks and rebounds as well. It really was a fun atmosphere to watch a game in. I agree that Nicholls is a pretty good team, they will be near the top of the Southland. Overall a great win.

[BeauCajun]

Great summary. Now, do you remember the prize the guy won for the layup, free throw and 3 pointer? That may have been the wieredest prize ever.

Hotel night. My wife and I had a good laugh about that.

I was impressed with Nicholls press. Small time basketball gym. Nice location on campus. Fairly good student turn out. Makes me appreciate the Cajundome a whole lot even without my cup holder.

[ZoomZoom]

A night at the Hampton Inn of Thibodeaux. That’s kind of a head scratcher.

[CajunSaint]

I ll take Stevie P any day Not boring

no! never!! not him, please.

[Crawfish]

I listened to the video feed and it was pretty good. The announcers were very respectful to The Cajuns and actually used "UL" and "Louisiana." The also seemed to be knowledgeable about both teams. They once stated that the Cajun team was an "elite upper mid major."

One thing that has to be said is that the coaches made some excellent adjustments to neutralize that nagging press. I think if the Cajuns would not have started those long football style passing that some of the Nichols players would have ended up fouling out. The were were getting a lot of fouls.

[zephyr]

UL should not do more than a 2-Home and 1-Away with schools like Nicholls.

At the same time UL should be doing as many 2-Away, 1-Home games as possible with P5 (basketball focused) schools. 3-1 if that is what it takes to get the ball rolling.

This approach is the only way to get back to Home-Home with peers from around the country.

jmo

This feels weird but.....I agree?

[HOUCajun]

I listened to the video feed and it was pretty good. The announcers were very respectful to The Cajuns and actually used "UL" and "Louisiana." The also seemed to be knowledgeable about both teams. They once stated that the Cajun team was an "elite upper mid major."

One thing that has to be said is that the coaches made some excellent adjustments to neutralize that nagging press. I think if the Cajuns would not have started those long football style passing that some of the Nichols players would have ended up fouling out. The were were getting a lot of fouls.

Until Stroman gets healthy the Cajuns will likely see a lot of full court press

[zephyr]

I don't know what's up with Bryce on the offensive side of the ball this year. Normally he's silky smooth, making amazing passes to teammates. He's forced a few shots where if he would have passed someone would have had easy bucket

Just Rhythm. Can't always have it. I think he will settle down, particularly once he gets a couple good games in his system.

[ZoomZoom]

Speaking of rhythm, that last 10-15 minutes of the game was probably the best 15 minutes we’ve put together in a long time. Utter and complete domination. Our fans got going behind the team the the Nicholls fans just sat there stunned.

[Bankruptcyman]

A night at the Hampton Inn of Thibodeaux. That's kind of a head scratcher.

The second place prize was 2 nights at the Hampton Inn. :-)