Final:: Louisiana 54, Southern Miss 62

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Southern Miss held off a late push from Louisiana to earn a 62-54 victory Wednesday night at Reed Green Coliseum in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams.

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[zephyr]

The refs certainly did not help themselves but neither did we. We just play dumb. Defensively, we have it drilled into the players to play "hard" but unfortunately that overflows into just goofy fouls. Evans is prime example. He plays so much defense with his hands he commits just dumb fouls being too aggressive. His fourth foul was 25 feet away from the basket where all he had to do was just hedge and keep the PG there but he puts his hands on him and gets called. We body shooters all the time as well.

We can complain about officiating all day but it's been a common practice of us all year to just play dumb. We take poor shots, we commit way too many fouls we turn the ball over way too much and overall, it doesn't seem like we really have a good basketball IQ on this team.

[RaginScotsman]

Planning on bringing 6 family members who are in town for Christmas to the Norfolk State game. Maybe Santa can bring me a gift card to any other experience in town and with that an excuse to pivot.

Seriously, though, what can you even say about the state of our basketball programs? It's such a collective low point that it's almost fruitless to even just break down the play on the court. Bad is bad and it's all just bad.

[MarlinMan3]

Stupid…the guys had a chance. Now, not so much.

Chick ball first half a killer…again.

Broke 50. 😂😂😂

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[MarlinMan3]

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[Cajunsmike]

The refs certainly did not help themselves but neither did we. We just play dumb. Defensively, we have it drilled into the players to play "hard" but unfortunately that overflows into just goofy fouls. Evans is prime example. He plays so much defense with his hands he commits just dumb fouls being too aggressive. His fourth foul was 25 feet away from the basket where all he had to do was just hedge and keep the PG there but he puts his hands on him and gets called. We body shooters all the time as well.

We can complain about officiating all day but it's been a common practice of us all year to just play dumb. We take poor shots, we commit way too many fouls we turn the ball over way too much and overall, it doesn't seem like we really have a good basketball IQ on this team.

Despite all this being true, the Cajuns played good defense much of game. USM was cold much of game due to Cajuns pressure on ball. Reason they did not have lead was the terrible shooting. Eagles missed because of Cajuns defense. Cajuns missed because of their ineptitude at putting the ball in the basket. Many Cajun misses occurred on wide open looks.

[zephyr]

Despite all this being true, the Cajuns played good defense much of game. USM was cold much of game due to Cajuns pressure on ball. Reason they did not have lead was the terrible shooting. Eagles missed because of Cajuns defense. Cajuns missed because of their ineptitude at putting the ball in the basket. Many Cajun misses occurred on wide open looks.

Minus the dumb plays where we foul you are correct. The problem is there are just too many of those plays consistently. We just beat ULM and shot the ball the best we have all year and we still allowed ULM to get to the line 33 times.

[RoarMan]

Despite all this being true, the Cajuns played good defense much of game. USM was cold much of game due to Cajuns pressure on ball. Reason they did not have lead was the terrible shooting. Eagles missed because of Cajuns defense. Cajuns missed because of their ineptitude at putting the ball in the basket. Many Cajun misses occurred on wide open looks.

That's because the players on the Cajun's team are not basketball players. They are athletes pretending to be basketball players. They have very little basketball skill.

[CajunVic]

That's because the players on the Cajun's team are not basketball players. They are athletes pretending to be basketball players. They have very little basketball skill.

are we going to used them for football and baseball the upcoming seasons?

[Cajunsmike]

That's because the players on the Cajun's team are not basketball players. They are athletes pretending to be basketball players. They have very little basketball skill.

I can appreciate that point of view. A major basketball skill is shooting and we have lacked it most of season. Seeing the open guy early is another skill. We often fail to do that as well.