MBB G7 Final: Louisiana 77, UNO 73

[Cajunsmike]

I really don’t get the hate for the “other” tournaments, especially with the way the selection committee and NIT treat mid majors these days. Of course the NCAA should be the goal but if you win 20+, finish in the top 4 in conference and make at least the semis of the tournament that is solid, not great but solid. If that is the case let the kids get the chance to go play some more ball with something on the line. If you win the whole thing celebrate and hang a banner. If you don’t at least it was some extra practice and game experience for next years bunch. I really think a 6-6 team going off to a bowl game is much more of a celebration of mediocrity than the CIT/CBI.

Extra practice is one of benefits of football. Same goes for basketball. Agree 6 and 6 with a bowl game is same as minor tournament in basketball.

[zephyr]

But is it a consistent theme to allow small programs to compete with us?...the biggest gripe on this board about Marlin is him padding his record with W’s against smaller schools...apparently he beats them religiously

McNeese St. (multiple times), Robert Morris, Lamar, Jackson State, Northwestern State, Texas College and I want to say Centenary as well when Wronkowski was there but could be mistaken. These are teams that have beaten us much less competed with us. He does pad his record with wins like this but the criticism comes more from the consistent scheduling of all these teams versus trying to go out and get better competition, especially in the Cajundome.

[zephyr]

The problem is that we never have been competitive against P5 competition outside of that one win against Iowa last year.

In fairness to Marlin, we have competed from time to time. We went to a good Michigan State team and barely lost, we lost to Louisville in the NCAA by a few points and we've been competitive against teams like a Baylor and Georgia. Issue is we never win these games and more times than not, we get run out of the gym regardless of how talented we are supposed to be.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Rockets this season is just another example of Big Fish plateau. Lost to a very bad LilRock last year because Stove injured, good Lord an awful LilRock last year. GaSt virtually every game.

It’s a shame that the sycophants chose to muddy the water when Big Fish had such a nice week vs Louisiana teams. But actually that’s about as good as it gets for y’all cause he’s not gonna have two big years in a row. Good luck to the team.

[MetryCajun]

Rockets this season is just another example of Big Fish plateau. Lost to a very bad LilRock last year because Stove injured, good Lord an awful LilRock last year. GaSt virtually every game.

It's a shame that the sycophants chose to muddy the water when Big Fish had such a nice week vs Louisiana teams. But actually that's about as good as it gets for y'all cause he's not gonna have two big years in a row. Good luck to the team.

How annoying.

[CajunAmos]

Same here. Crazy how they used to have 7-10k there. Now they’re lucky to get 500

The highest of their posted attendance info since 2005-2006 (they had some years where the arena wasn't available after Katrina with $20M in repairs put into it) was 929 in the 2016-2017 season.

[Cajunsmike]

Rockets this season is just another example of Big Fish plateau. Lost to a very bad LilRock last year because Stove injured, good Lord an awful LilRock last year. GaSt virtually every game.

It’s a shame that the sycophants chose to muddy the water when Big Fish had such a nice week vs Louisiana teams. But actually that’s about as good as it gets for y’all cause he’s not gonna have two big years in a row. Good luck to the team.

Agree we should appreciate the two wins vs New Orleans area opponents who wanted desperately to beat us. We should celebrate getting those victories in a week’s time vs a focus on our problems right now. If you think that we should blow out UNO at their place just because of resources, you are not being realistic. Just their intensity in such a game insures it will be a war. While it is unlikely we match last year in conference, we may do quite well with proper focus.

[ZoomZoom]

The highest of their posted attendance info since 2005-2006 (they had some years where the arena wasn't available after Katrina with $20M in repairs put into it) was 929 in the 2016-2017 season.

Time to move back to "The Chamber of Horrors". That was an ever lovin' fumble hole of a gym, and was appropriately named.

[BeauCajun]

Time to move back to "The Chamber of Horrors". That was an ever lovin' fumble hole of a gym, and was appropriately named.

I remember it well.

[basinbear]

Time to move back to "The Chamber of Horrors". That was an ever lovin' fumble hole of a gym, and was appropriately named.

I hated that crackerbox

[ZoomZoom]

I hated that crackerbox

Best memory I had there was wiping beer off my hand on some Yat's mink coat. They did sell beet there in the 80's which was their only redeeming quality.