The Book: 2002-2003 Basketball (Ragin'Cajuns)

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Cajuns fall to WKU in regular season finale.

LAFAYETTE — One streak is over, and it will take stopping another streak to gain revenge.

Sophomore Patrick Sparks drained a pressure-packed 3-point basket with two minutes to play Wednesday night, then helped seal the verdict with a late free throw as Western Kentucky defeated Louisiana 69-66 before a season-high 9,121 fans at the Cajundome.

The Hilltoppers snapped a 21-game home winning streak for the Ragin’ Cajuns, who finish the regular season 20-8 and 12-3.

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Bruce Brown
bbrown@theadvertiser.com

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LAFAYETTE — Western Kentucky's Patrick Sparks probably hit the biggest basket of the night, but it was play on the other end of the floor that was most responsible for the Hilltoppers’ biggest Sun Belt Conference win of the season.

Sparks hit a three-point basket with 1:36 left that gave WKU a six-point lead, on the way to a 69-66 win over host Louisiana Wednesday night. It was Western’s only three-pointer of the second half.

But the pace of Wednesday’s Sun Belt showdown was determined by a sticky Hilltopper defense that disrupted the Cajun offense most of the evening and locked down on shooters in the final 20 minutes.

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com

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Louisiana fans witnessing a win 53,249
Louisiana fans witnessing a loss. 9,121

[CajunCall]

You heard it here first the Cajuns averaged 5600 per game. If turbines numbers are correct.

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Attendance chart for each home game

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Season Average

[1stTake]

Looks like the average got better and better after the second game of the season. Whatever happens this year we need to pick up next year where we left off this year.

[TuffGuy84]

what happened this year is that we were 1)winning, 2)playing better teams then alcorn state and bethune cookman, and 3 were in the middle of a race for a championship. I think our attendance will be up next year with the teams that are coming here and the overall talent level of this class could have us looken for a shot next season too.

tuffguy

[RaginRash]

I'd like to see a gamma distribution of these values as well at the Arithmetic mean of all home games on weeknights during this period.

[Zeebart21]

I'd like to see a gamma distribution of these values as well at the Arithmetic mean of all home games on weeknights during this period.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Please put special emphasis on the weeknight games where we used our two best pitchers.

Thanks, Z.

[Crawfish]

"what happened this year is that we were 1)winning, 2)playing better teams then alcorn state and bethune cookman, and 3 were in the middle of a race for a championship. I think our attendance will be up next year with the teams that are coming here and the overall talent level of this class could have us looken for a shot next season too."

The time has again come for fans to come out to see the Cajuns play no matter who the competition is. I enjoy marquee games as much as anyone, but the best team that has played in the dome this year has been the Cajuns and they appeared 11 times plus the 2 exibitions. That should be enough reason for fans to show up.

[TuffGuy84]

I more then anything want this to happen, and I want people to go to games for the cajuns, but in most mid-major markets, if your not playing decent competition, Fair-weather fans wont be there. I want people to be there every game more then anything, because it creates an intimidating enviroment, but the facts are that UL still has a huge amount of Fair-Weather fans, and unlesss the 3 things I mentioned are happening, the Fair-Weathers wont come out.

Tuffguy