Raging Paging (Calendar Year 2004)

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WAC alignment If Tech ends up staying, the WAC could add North Texas or Louisiana-Lafayette as a geographic partner. source

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LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE AT NO. 15 WICHITA STATE source

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Today, it will be a well-rested Pelfrey who takes the mound against Louisiana-Lafayette in WSU's season opener. source

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Highschool The Lady Trojans have won 12 straight and will be trying to extend that streak to 13 at the Louisiana High School Powerlifting Championships today and Saturday at Louisiana-Lafayette's Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette. source

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Do you have a link to a baseball poll showing them #15. Can't seem to find a good baseball poll.

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If CUSA takes UNT, and the WAC offers us, we should take it. I have a feeling the SUNBELT might just not survive if we lose UNT, WKU, MTSU, or whoever.

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Austin lineman Lucas Yarnell recovered the ensuing kickoff at the Tampa Bay nine-yard line after it bounded off the upright. On the next play Kaleo found Hammond in the endzone for a touchdown, pushing the Austin lead to 21-14 with 7:59 left in the first half.

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Four schools in this year’s NCAA tournament have impact players from Australia: Georgia Tech’s Schenscher, Utah’s Andrew Bogut, Charlotte’s Martin Iti and Louisiana’s Chris Cameron.
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My mid major upset specials, with seeds in parenthesis, are Louisiana-Lafayette (14) over N.C. State (3), East Tennessee St. (13) over Cincinnati (4), Pacific (12) over Providence (5), Manhattan (12) over Florida (5) and Western Michigan (11) over Vanderbilt (6).
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N.C. State and Louisiana have never met in basketball, but they do have a connection. Former Valvano assistant Marty Fletcher was the head coach at ULL in the early 1990s. While he was there, the Ragin' Cajuns -- a No. 13 seed at the time -- upset No. 4 seeded Oklahoma. The rest of the story

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Best shhh-ooter you haven't heard of: Antoine Landry, G, Louisiana. He made three or more 3-pointers in 16 of 28 games this season, including in back-to-back games with six 3s against Arizona and Houston.
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Ragin' Cajuns advance to sweet 16 in Mascot battle
The hardest call of all was Alabama over Louisiana in the Sweet 16. Each advanced easily over opponents with the respective names "Crimson Tide" and "Ragin' Cajuns." Classics, both. There, as with the Liberty-over-St. Joe's pick, I had to go with the force of nature. A Cajun, no matter how Ragin', can't do anything about an algae (yes, crimson tides are caused by algae) that kills everything near it.
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Like Georgia Tech, North Carolina State is a No. 3, in the Phoenix Regional. The temptation is to pencil the 'Pack into the regional semis against Connecticut, but with starting guard Scooter Sherrill (ankle) and reserve forward Jordan Collins (knee) questionable for Friday's opener in Orlando, Fla., against Louisiana, State may be an early out.
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My three favorite NCAA team nicknames: Catamounts, Ragin' Cajuns, Salukis.The rest of the story

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(3) NC State vs. (14) Louisiana-Lafayette: Will the Wolfpack play like they did in finishing second during the ACC's regular season? Will the Wolfpack be able to get the necessary spacing against a more frenzied Louisiana team? Will Louisiana be able to translate its close losses in "up" games against Arizona, Xavier and Dayton into playing well enough to beat NC State?

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Quick Ragin' Cajuns Preview: This is not your average No. 14 seed as the Ragin' Cajuns are going to Orlando, Fl expecting to defeat N.C. State. UL-Lafayette returned their top five scorers from a year ago and added SEC transfers Orien Greene (Florida) and Dwayne Mitchell (Auburn) to the mix this season.

Finishing 20-8 on the year and winning the Sun Belt Conference, La-Lafayette had five players who averaged double figures, led by 5'11 point guard Antoine Landry. Landry and 6'6 guard Brad Boyd were the focal points of an offense that centered around hitting the 3-point shot and strong, agressive rebounding.

Defensively the Cajuns love to press and use their athleticism for easy transition buckets, but also mix in a zone at times. If NC State can handle the pressure and get into their offensive sets, their unique system will be tough for UL-Lafayette to defend.

Either way you slice it, this won't be an easy game for NC State, and the Ragin' Cajuns will be gunning for the upset.

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Upset Special
Call it a gut feeling, call it instinct, but a good pick to get the early round exit rests squarely in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

That's right.

Look for N.C. State to be a prime candidate to make a first round exit this year. The Wolfpack (20-9), seeded third in the Phoenix Regional, will face off with 14th seeded UL-Lafayette (20-7).

The thought process here is simple, the Rajin' Cajuns implore an up-and-down attack that features a lot of three point shooting and long rebounds. Never mind the fact that this team returned all five of its leading scorers from a year ago and added two transfers in from the SEC.

After a strong regular season that saw State finish only behind Duke in the standings, the Wolfpack blew a 21-point lead to Maryland in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.

Not exactly what you would call a "momentum builder."

And a word of advice to newly crowned Coach of the Year Herb Sendek, and ACC Player of the Year Julius Hodge: if anybody for ULL gets hot from behind the arc in this game, look out!

The Wolfpack, with their methodical style of play on offense, has the type of team that could easily falter under the pressure.

Mark it down now.

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now i like this.. one thread for all the "news copy".. keeps the other stuff on front page longer.. hope also it may be easier for the webmaster (grins)
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cajuns are legends

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No. 3 North Carolina State (20-9) vs. No. 14 Louisiana (20-8)

Tipoff: 12:15 p.m. in Orlando.

Coaches: Herb Sendek (North Carolina State); Jessie Evans (Louisiana-Lafayette).

Difference-makers: North Carolina State - F Julius Hodge (18.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg, ACC player of the year). Louisiana-Lafayette - F Brian Hamilton (11.7 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 60.8 percent FG).

Statitudes: North Carolina State, which runs a Princeton-style offense, is the nation's best free throw shooting team (79.8 percent). Louisiana-Lafayette, which likes to play a fast-paced game, shoots 40 percent from three-point range.

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North Carolina State over Louisiana: This game could be closer than expected. The Ragin' Cajuns are talented and they don't figure to be awed by the NCAA Tournament bright lights or by facing an Atlantic Coast Conference team.

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PONTIAC MODEL: In today's first game, 14th-seeded Louisiana-Lafayette plays No. 3 seed North Carolina State, with the winner advancing to Sunday's game against the winner of the Western Michigan-Vanderbilt game. Lafayette is coached by 1968 Pontiac Central grad Jesse Evans.

"I played there right before Campy Russell," said Evans, who also played at Eastern Michigan. "I played with Campy's brother Frank. Let's say I passed to Frank. Pontiac had a lot of legends, but Campy was the best."

Evans is something of a legend in Louisiana, or at least in Lafayette. In his seventh season, Evans has a 132-80 record and has moved into second place in the Sun Belt Conference coaching record book with 70 league wins. The Ragin' Cajuns have 20 wins in each of the last three seasons, and this is their second NCAA appearance under Evans.

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On Arizona's fast exit We dealt with the difficult showing at home against Marquette, the lackluster performance against St. Mary’s and the competitive effort of Louisiana-Lafayette in the Fiesta Bowl Classic.

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Sendek, who's also taken four Wolfpack teams to the NIT, has schooled his players on the dangers of overlooking postseason opponents and does not think the team will take Louisiana-Lafayette (20-8) lightly.

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HOME COOKING: Louisiana-Lafayette junior guard Orien Greene, a heralded player out of Gainesville who transferred from the University of Florida, said his mother planned to cook dinner for his teammates on Thursday.

"I don't know what she's going to do," he said earlier in the day. "Maybe pork chops and rice and gravy and some Kool-Aid."

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Difference in diagnosis: Injured North Carolina State guard Scooter Sherrill sounded like someone who expects to play in today's opener against Louisiana-Lafayette in Orlando, Fla. His coach, Herb Sendek, sounded just the opposite.

"Scooter has been very optimistic," Sendek said Thursday, "but he isn't anywhere near where he left off."

Technically, Sherrill, who suffered a torn muscle in his left ankle on Feb. 29, has been cleared to play, Sendek said. But even Sherrill admits his ankle is no better than 80 percent healthy.

"There's a lot of pain," he said. "There's no denying that."

Sherrill ran in five-on-five drills for about 15 minutes Wednesday, the first full-speed work he's done since the injury. However, his foot was extremely sore Thursday and, essentially, sidelined him again.

He said he believes he can play today, but the decision isn't his to make. "I can say whatever, but if (Sendek) doesn't see it, he's not going to play me," Sherrill said.

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nice, very nice..

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Playing in its first NCAA Tournament since 2000, 14th-seeded Louisiana-Lafayette (20-9) never quite found its rhythm.

Though the teams changed leads five times during the first half, Louisiana-Lafayette endured a 13-minute span without making a field goal. When the stretch began, midway through the first half, the Ragin' Cajuns led 16-13. When it ended, they trailed 34-28.

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Louisiana-Lafayette (20-9) kept it interesting, cutting its biggest deficit -- 11 points -- to seven on Antoine Landry's 3-pointer with just under three minutes to go. North Carolina State put the game away by going 6-for-6 from the foul line the rest of the way.

Landry led Louisiana-Lafayette with 16 points, but the Ragin' Cajuns shot just 32.7 percent from the field, including 5-for-22 on 3-point attempts, and were held to their second-lowest point total of the season.

The key was a field-goal drought of nearly 12 minutes that spanned the last 9:15 of the first half and the first 2:40 of the second.

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Louisiana 16, Michigan 5 - Catcher Jeff Kunkel had a solo home run among his two hits for Michigan (5-7)

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Lafayette (20-9) was the Sun Belt Conference champion and averaged 78 points per game, and it led for most of the first half. But the Ragin' Cajuns were held without a field goal for nearly 12 minutes, spanning the last 9:15 of the first half and the first 2:40 of the second.

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