2005-06 Basketball Preview

[CajunSailor]

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we better get used to it and laugh because we might see it a few times all year. I don't care no big deal I just think it is funny

I agree totally. I think our fans would do the same thing. It's all good. I just hope Southhall is a better young man than he has shown in the past. I wish him the best as well as our Cajuns.

[Savil98]

Here's to a good game fellas.

Go you Dawgs!

[MiamiCajun32]

I think we are not getting much respect here by the so called experts.

We shall see...

[CutOff_Cajun]

That's not too much credit. We're very solid this year and we actually have depth. SIU lost their two best starters from last year, plus we had the advantage of beating them. Granted you can argue that we lost our two best starters, but I think Greene and Mitchell were sort of on the same level. I think we can definitely do in there pull this off by 10+. We just need to get the inside game going and if Southall is really back, then we have nothing to worry about.

[NewsCopy]

The SIU men's basketball team will attempt to extend a seven-game home-opener winning streak when it welcomes the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns to the SIU Arena Saturday evening. The Cajuns and Salukis last clashed during the 2004-05 season in the aptly titled Cajundome. SIU left the Jan. 5 game with a 63-61 loss and will be aiming to avenge the defeat. UL, returning three starters and picked to win the Sun Belt Conference, have the weapons to repel a Saluki attack. The Salukis' strengths ˜ stifling defensive pressure and pure athleticism ˜ will be put to the test against a team with starters averaging 6-foot-7 and 218 pounds. "We got quick guys," SIU head coach Chris Lowery said. "But they're guys are big, but they're athletes too. It doesn't matter, we just have to play hard." But while there is a disparity between brute force and agility, the Salukis and Cajuns are quite similar in one respect. Both teams return the brunt of their core starters, while having lost two key players in the ever-changing world of college basketball. The Salukis lost the tandem of Darren Brooks and Stetson Hairston after the 2004-05 season. ULL, meanwhile, lost Orien Greene ˜ who was recently drafted by the Boston Celtics ˜ and Tiras Wade. Wade accounted for 18 points in the teams' last meeting. The rest of the story Gabe House Daily Egyptian

[J-Town Cajun]

I think we are not getting much respect here by the so called experts.

We shall see...

I believe in college hoops that home court is worth about 7 points. So if the game was at the Cajun Dome it would be about a push.

I would take the Cajuns.

[AirBill]

Didnt Santa Clara have a big 7'0 center? Played pro ball, was killed in a plane crash some years later...??

Z.

Yeah, but I can't remember his name.

[Zeebart21]

Here's to a good game fellas.

Go you Dawgs!

whhooooa, ya'll too braaaahhh....

Z.

[BirdofParadise]

Didnt Santa Clara have a big 7'0 center? Played pro ball, was killed in a plane crash some years later...??

Z.

Nick Vanos

[NewsCopy]

The Salukis played at Louisiana Là in early January last season. As they checked into the team hotel, I noticed a small sign at the edge of the parking lot. It showed the outline of an alligator and the word, “Warning” Interesting. Beware of gators. Two things came to mind: 1) Is that for real? 2) Check under the car before getting back in. The warning gave some insight into the landscape of southern Louisiana. And anywhere, for that matter. It’s a thin line — a curb, in this case — between civilization and nature. Hurricane Katrina blurred that line even further. Residents were displaced, homes drifted away. Louisiana Là head coach Robert Lee said some of the pieces are still, well, in pieces. “We’re dealing with it,” Lee said Tuesday. “It’s been tough on everybody. But what are you going to do? That’s life.” The hurricane altered the life of one player, in particular. The family of Dwayne Mitchell — a 6-5 senior — lost its New Orleans home in the hurricane. The family has moved in with Mitchell in his house near the ULL campus. Let’s see: Class at 8, lift weights at 10, buy groceries and make dinner for the fam at 6. Oh, then there’s that starting point guard thing. “It’s really been a tremendous burden on him,” Lee said. As for the Ragin’ Cajuns, they are also dealing with it. The regular season opens Friday at SIU Arena, and it probably can’t some soon enough. The rest of the story