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we need to get some Green wave fans on here..

If Tulane had not had to endure the scandal of 1985, I honestly think Tulane had stood to become, at the time, something like what Duke eventually did become. Tulane had had the men's basketball program rolling, to a degree, then and is a similar school to Duke. Unfortunately, there was a time when there was an opportunity, when the college basketball world was changing, and now it's gone.

Finney has the program on the direction. They were fun to watch last year and almost returns everyone. Great schedule as well with Kentucky, LSU, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and more.

Where's the GT Game at this year? @Tulane - or in the Thriller Dome?

Its at Tulane. Last year's game was great (if you were a Tulane fan). We really dominated Tech in Atlanta. How are y'all gonna be this year?

No push over.

We finished up by beating every ACC team but Duke and Maryland, and pulling off about 4 upsets of Top 25 teams. We were one win away from at the very least getting a very high NIT seed.

This year everybody is back but Akins, and add to that slew of talent the all-everything recruit Bosh and the deadly shooter Jack... and we're very deadly. Also, the 7 foot Aussie we got ate at the Varsity during the off-season.. so he bulked up. I think we'll definately get an NCAA bid this year.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by FW:
Finney has the program on the direction. They were fun to watch last year and almost returns everyone. Great schedule as well with Kentucky, LSU, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and more.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">With the seniors this year the team should be similar to the 1999-2000 team. I'm thinking 17-18 wins. Then we get to start over again (with Shawn Finney's own recruits as opposed to those he inherited). Things should be interesting when the Nov. signing period comes around. Everyone should be very well aware of how tough it is to win in C-USA if you don't have the players who can make it happen in the paint on both ends of the floor. We've relied heavily on Brandon Brown and now need to find someone or two who can replace him. BTW this deal with lsu in men's basketball is garbage. I wish we weren't even playing them, so odious is it. It's pretty simple: home-and-home is fair and if they can't swing that we shouldn't deal with them. The downtown arena is a neutral site, and for a game during the holidays it won't even be that. Either play them there every time or, if there's to be a game played in Baton Rouge, then there should be one in Fogelman.

I'm thinking at least 17-18 wins, hopefully 20. NIT for sure NCAA longshot. I would love to whip LSU before a full house at the arena!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by FW:
I'm thinking at least 17-18 wins, hopefully 20. NIT for sure NCAA longshot. I would love to whip LSU before a full house at the arena!!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If there's a full house in the arena for a game during the holidays, let's hope there's at least close to a 50/50 crowd. Everyone says that the crowd in the baseball game at the Superdome was definite majority pro-LSU, although the Superregional might have been close to 50/50. However, LSU does have a poor track record of support for basketball if the team isn't doing exceptionally well. Then again, so does Tulane. All in all, however, the arena downtown is still like a neutral site. There are those who don't like the Superdome setting for football, and I don't like the arena downtown for basketball. Will LSU ever play Tulane on Tulane's campus for anything again? It sure doesn't look like it.

The baseball game at the superdome was probably 9-10,000 Tulane fans and 17-18,000 LSU fans. The Super Regional was at least 50-50 probably more like 60-40 Wave fans, and when game #3 ended there were about 7,000 Tulane fans and 100 Tigers.

College baseball is one thing but basketball something else. College baseball, really still a sport as regional in nature as college hockey and still a sport with less of a profile in terms of national media treatment and general fan interest than women's basketball, is definitely the no. 2 sport after football in fan interest and support in Louisiana with basketball a distant third place. The threshold of sparking the interest of local fans in basketball is a high one.

Having said all of the above, however, I don't have much idea of how LSU will be. I know last year they had very little inside presence. Has that changed?

<small>[ September 02, 2002, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: Fogelmaniac ]</small>

we should be better than LSU in b-ball but LSU did reach the SEC Championship last year after a mediocre regular season. The game should be close and fun nonetheless.