March 2005 NewsStand
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April 1, 2005
March 31, 2005
Reboul pulls out, Tillette still in mix at Tulane
Birmingham News
Samford University men's basketball coach Jimmy Tillette completed his second interview with Tulane University on Wednesday, but no decision on the coaching job has been announced. Birmingham-Southern College coach Duane Reboul, who also interviewed with Tulane, issued a statement that he is no longer a candidate for the job...
March 30, 2005
Tulane to interview Tillette a second time
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Samford coach Jimmy Tillette, who interviewed for the Tulane basketball head coaching job more than a week ago, will meet with Tulane officials again today, according to sources. Tillette is scheduled to be on Tulane's campus for an afternoon meeting with Green Wave athletic director Rick Dickson and an advisory panel, the source said...
Conference USA next stop for Everhart?
Northeastern News
Ron Everhart may have coached his last game on Huntington Avenue. The men's basketball coach was scheduled to interview Tuesday in New Orleans for the vacant Tulane University head coaching job, according to a report by The New Orleans Times-Picayune...
March 29, 2005
Tulane narrows coaching search
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson could be a day or two away from announcing the school's next coach. On Monday, Dickson and members of a screening group that included at least one current player, met with two candidates, Maryland senior associate head coach Dave Dickerson and former Georgetown coach Craig Esherick, sources said...
Tide assistant interviews for Tulane job
Birmingham News
A third basketball coach with Alabama connections has met with Tulane University officials, but it appears that two other candidates are the finalists for the vacant men's coaching job...
March 27, 2005
He was the golden boy with the arm to match
Fall River (Mass.) Herald News
Big-league scouts used to come to his games at Durfee High in droves and train their radar guns on him as he blew away batter after batter. He was the ace pitcher on every team for which he played, and while he wasn't drafted coming out of Durfee, he was highly recruited by many Division 1 colleges...
Samford, BSC ADs want to keep coaches
Birmingham News
Both Joe Dean Jr. and Bob Roller have a list of potential head basketball coaches. The athletics directors hope to keep those lists buried in their desks this week, but it's possible that as early as Wednesday Birmingham-Southern or Samford could be in the market for a new coach...
Tulane can't go wrong with Tillette or Reboul
Birmingham News
It's Birmingham's good fortune that Jimmy Tillette and Duane Reboul work here. Throw in Mike Anderson, and there's not a city in the country with a better trio of Division I basketball coaches...
March 25, 2005
Former Hoyas coach interviews for TU job
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Former Georgetown coach Craig Esherick, who succeeded John Thompson midway through the 1999 season, is one of four candidates to have interviewed for the Tulane job this week...
Confident Wave take on Cardinals
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The mood in the Tulane Green Wave dugout hardly ever grows sour. Despite games when the opposition took early leads and seemed to be in control, the second-ranked Green Wave has never stopped believing. Its confidence has never wavered...
Tulane contacts Reboul, Tillette
Birmingham News
Tulane University has contacted both head coaches at Birmingham-Southern and Samford University about its vacant men's basketball coaching job. Duane Reboul said Thursday that Tulane officials had received permission from BSC Athletics Director Joe Dean Jr. to speak with him about the job left vacant when Shawn Finney was fired...
March 24, 2005
Wave, archdiocese form partnership
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane and the Archdiocese of New Orleans joined hands Wednesday in hopes of forming a lasting partnership that will benefit Catholic schools and boost attendance at Green Wave athletic events...
March 23, 2005
Green Wave's Crowel overpowers Demons
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Northwestern State batters couldn't figure out what pitch was coming Tuesday afternoon. Tulane's J.R. Crowel had his fastball, curveball and change-up working, helping the second-ranked Green Wave to a 4-1 victory over the Demons in front of 2,388 fans at Turchin Stadium...
TU to interview Tillette, Dickerson
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane has been granted permission to interview Samford University men's basketball coach Jimmy Tillette and Maryland assistant Dave Dickerson. Samford athletic director Bob Roller confirmed Tuesday evening that he had been contacted by Tulane senior associate athletic director Maria Ochoa on Monday...
March 22, 2005
Demons' road doesn't get any easier with No. 2 Green Wave
Alexandria (La.) Town Talk
The Northwestern State baseball team has already endured one of the toughest non-conference schedules in recent history. They'll add to that today when the Demons travel to face second-ranked Tulane in a 1 p.m. game at Turchin Stadium in New Orleans...
Tulane interested in Terps' assistant Dickerson
Baltimore Sun
Maryland senior associate head basketball coach Dave Dickerson is being considered for the vacant head coaching job at Tulane, sources said. Dickerson, 37, has been an assistant on Gary Williams' staff since 1996 and was promoted to senior associate head coach after Jimmy Patsos left the Terrapins to become the head coach at Loyola last April...
Carter & Gallant sign with Blue
CFL News
Cornerback Tim Carter and safety Shawn Gallant signed today with the Winnipeg Football Club...
March 21, 2005
LSU, TU complete conference sweeps
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Typically, time isn't that important for baseball coaches. But as Sunday's game crept along at a snail's pace, Tulane coach Rick Jones kept one eye on his team's performance on the field and the other on the clock sitting atop the scoreboard at Turchin Stadium...
Davis not thinking about Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Indiana coach Mike Davis, along with sources at Tulane, deny that he has been offered the Green Wave basketball job. An Indianapolis television station reported Saturday night that several Indiana basketball players said Davis was close to taking the job at Tulane, and that Green Wave athletic director Rick Dickson was waiting for an answer...
March 20, 2005
Green Wave works on getting physical
New Orleans Times-Picayune
There were many things Tulane coach Chris Scelfo felt his team needed to accomplish during spring drills, but there was one item he put a much higher premium on...
Wave smashes East Carolina
New Orleans Times-Picayune
There was no need for Tulane to wait until the ninth inning to celebrate Saturday afternoon. Unlike Friday night, when the third-ranked Green Wave needed a home run to lift it to a 6-5 Conference USA-opening victory over No. 25 East Carolina, Tulane hitters smashed the Pirates' pitching staff throughout the game Saturday in a 13-6 victory at Turchin Stadium...
March 19, 2005
Southard's homer lifts Green Wave
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The home plate umpire held his palms up in desperation, trying to block home plate from 34 teammates waiting to get their hands on Friday night's star. Trotting down the third base line was Tulane's Nathan Southard, who had just ripped a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth, giving the third-ranked Green Wave a 6-5 victory over No. 25 East Carolina in the Conference USA opener for both teams...
March 18, 2005
Green Wave not looking for close shave vs. Pirates
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Micah Owings has shortened his shaving sessions, avoiding his mustache like a 3-0 pitch. The area between Joe Holland's upper lip and nose, uncharted territory for facial hair in the past 21 years, now features budding jet-black whiskers with boundless follicle potential...
Pirates brace for Green Wave
Kinston (N.C.) Daily Reflector
An early battle for supremacy. Twenty-fifth ranked East Carolina and third-ranked Tulane look to take the first step toward a Conference USA regular-season baseball title in the conference opener for both teams in a three-game series that begins at 7:30 p.m. today at Turchin Stadium...
Green Wave not looking for close shave vs. Pirates
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
East Carolina's played about only 20 percent of its baseball schedule thus far, 16 games to be exact. For some Pirates, it seems like much more...
March 17, 2005
Green Wave now playing waiting game
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After getting over the initial shock, Tulane basketball players say they're not happy about the firing of coach Shawn Finney and are taking a wait-and-see attitude before deciding their future...
Wave tops pesky Tigers
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The brave few that came to Tulane's Turchin Stadium on a miserably cold and gusty Wednesday were treated to a carnival of ineptitude; there were balks and walks, excuse-me singles and misplayed fly balls. There were pick-off attempts that went awry, wild pitches, base-running blunders and hit-and-runs -- without the hit...
March 16, 2005
Dickson may follow new trend
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson begins narrowing his list of candidates to be the Green Wave's next basketball coach, he may follow the same pattern other Conference USA schools have taken the past few years in rebuilding their programs going after a proven, high-profile coach that's looking for a second chance...
March 15, 2005
Search underway at Tulane for coach
New Orleans Times-Picayune
For years, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson has kept information on coaches around the country in two notebooks, each nearly an inch thick. It might turn out that the name of the Green Wave's next men's basketball coach is in one of them...
Dickson makes right move
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Frankly, Tulane's firing of men's basketball coach Shawn Finney came as a bit of a surprise. Not because there was reason to believe Finney was untouchable. Goodness knows, his five-year run suggested anything but earned security. He had a 60-86 overall record, one winning season, three one-and-dones in the Conference USA tournament and no national postseason tournament appearances...
Pierre interested in Tulane post
Baton Rouge Advocate
The phone hasn't rung officially. Not yet anyway. But when Tulane begins its search for a new men's basketball coach, LSU associate head coach Butch Pierre and Southeastern Louisiana coach Billy Kennedy will likely be high on the Green Wave wish list...
Tulane drops to No. 3 in Baseball America poll
New Orleans Times-Picayune
We're No. 3. That's the altered rallying cry at Tulane after its baseball team lost two of three games to Cal State-Fullerton over weekend, then slipped from No. 1 in the Baseball America poll...
March 14, 2005
Tulane captures first Blue-Gray crown
Montgomery Advertiser
Tulane men's tennis coach Robert Klein never saw it coming. Just moments after capturing the 55th annual Blue-Gray National Collegiate Tennis Classic title Sunday, the Green Wave players were looking to celebrate...
Tulane fires coach Finney
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane men's basketball coach Shawn Finney, whose teams had one winning season in the five years he led the Green Wave, was fired over the weekend. Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson announced his decision Sunday evening, but sources close to the program said Finney was fired Saturday...
Wave finally breaks through vs. Titans
New Orleans Times-Picayune
When Tulane's Tommy Manzella stood on first base aside Cal State-Fullerton's Brett Pill, there were three hits and three RBIs between the two of them -- and it was only the bottom of the second inning. "Man," the Titans' first baseman said to Manzella. "It's going to take 20 runs to win this one"...
March 13, 2005
Tulane receiving corps looks to catch on
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Bubba Terranova knows it won't be easy to replace wide receivers Roydell Williams and Chris Bush. Still, Terranova said, the Green Wave will have a formidable group of wideouts next season...
Titans hold Green Wave rally at bay
New Orleans Times-Picayune
This time the matchup between top-ranked Tulane and No. 3 Cal State-Fullerton was more like many expected it would be, a lot of hitting, a lot of good pitching and a close ballgame. But for the second consecutive day, the Green Wave's shortcomings during the early innings were too much for it to overcome...
Finney's fate is uncertain
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Five consecutive seasons without a sniff of the NCAA Tournament or the NIT. Two consecutive seasons of rebuilding. One winning record in five years. Those lackluster facts have led to speculation by many Tulane supporters whether Green Wave men's basketball coach Shawn Finney will return for a sixth season...
March 12, 2005
Titanic Thrashing
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Now Tulane coach Rick Jones will find out what his No. 1-ranked Green Wave is made of. On Friday night, his pitchers were battered and his batters were pitched to, as third-ranked Cal State-Fullerton greeted Tulane with a 15-1 whipping at Turchin Stadium in the first of their three-game series...
March 11, 2005
College Weekend Preview: Mar. 11-13
Baseball America
Nine months have passed, but Brian Bogusevic remembers well how Cal State Fullerton ended his and Tulane's season last June in super-regionals. "It was not a good feeling. They beat us pretty bad," Bogusevic said of the 9-0 and 10-7 losses...
Revenge in mind for Wave, Barket
New Orleans Times Picayune
Matt Barket remembers the pitch and the swing. How could he forget? It's the one that ended Tulane's baseball season a year ago, leaving the Green Wave short of its goal to reach the College World Series...
TU faithful making Turchin come alive
New Orleans Times Picayune
Attention all seismographs in the Uptown area. Fear not. Those Richter Scale-size sounds you'll be hearing tonight is not an earthquake. Which, come to think of it, may be debatable...
CS Fullerton takes on No. 1 Tulane in baseball
Orange County Register
Defending national champion Cal State Fullerton heads to No.1 Tulane for a three-game nonconference baseball series that begins today in New Orleans. The hardest part, though, won't be beating the Green Wave, which has lost only once in 15 games...
March 10, 2005
Green Wave isn't able to 'get over hump'
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane figured its second meeting with DePaul this season would be different. The Green Wave was right, just wrong about how it would end. Dominated and disposed of early by DePaul in its January meeting, the 12th-seeded Green Wave hung around long enough to make Wednesday's game interesting, battling back from double-digit deficits several times before falling to the fifth-seeded Blue Demons 81-71 in the first round of the Conference USA tournament at the FedExForum...
Alvarez gets glimpse of future
New Orleans Times Picayune
Though missing the cut by six strokes in her first pro event this past weekend, Tulane junior Liliana Alvarez came way encouraged about her game and the direction her career is going. The 21-year-old native of Durango, Mexico, missed the cut at the LPGA Master Card Classic...
Blue-Gray Tennis Classic begins today
Montgomery Advertiser
Notre Dame senior Brent D'Amico calls this week the highlight of the season. The 55th annual Blue-Gray National Collegiate Tennis Classic has become a staple for the Irish in recent years...
March 9, 2005
Clutch hitting carries top-ranked Green Wave to win over Tigers
New Orleans Times Picayune
Timing is everything in baseball. LSU had more hits (12) than Tulane (10) on Tuesday night. But the Green Wave made the most of theirs in a 6-2 victory at Alex Box Stadium. Tulane scored five of its six runs with two outs. LSU was 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left 13 runners stranded...
Tulane lives up to top billing, beats LSU
Baton Rouge Advocate
LSU baseball fans are used to seeing the nation's top-ranked team win at Alex Box Stadium. They're not accustomed to seeing that team occupy the third base dugout...
Wave gets chance to start over
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the second consecutive season, Tulane heads into the Conference USA tournament as the No. 12 seed. That, Green Wave players say, hardly matters at this point. All Tulane's players seem concerned about are two things -- being in the tournament and trying to atone for what was a rocky regular season...
Tulane assistant Thieler taking over at Chapelle
New Orleans Times Picayune
Chapelle has selected Christy Thieler as its new head basketball coach, replacing Marion Bonura. Thieler served as an assistant coach at Tulane the past two seasons, following six years as the head coach at Dominican. She is a graduate of Dominican and was a walk-on in basketball at LSU during the 1989-90 season...
Williams hits his stride
New Orleans Times Picayune
Watching eagerly were NFL scouts, friends wearing NFL gear and family members sharing NFL dreams. Tulane's Roydell Williams, an NFL hopeful, stepped to the white line, paused and yanked his long-sleeve shirt over his head. A one-time beanpole of a receiver, he now has an upper body that makes his teammates gawk...
March 8, 2005
Short Hops, Long Strides
New Orleans Times Picayune
Wherever you go tonight, don't eat anywhere unlucky, Tommy Manzella is told moments before he drops to all fours on the Wilson Center floor, cricking his neck to find the port for the USB drive. He asks, "How old are these computers," looking at this black Dell like it's a Betamax...
Tigers, Wave still have a rivalry in baseball
New Orleans Times Picayune
One night after winning a suspense-filled game in the bottom of the 10th, Tulane did what No. 1-ranked teams are supposed to do. The Green Wave made it look easy...
LSU to face higher-ranked Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Not since the 2001 postseason has Tulane played a baseball game against LSU as the higher-ranked team. Barring a rainout, it will happen again tonight...
As C-USA realigns, it's last chance to enjoy old rivalries
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Houston coach Tom Penders had just joined Monday's Conference USA men's basketball teleconference, and he had a question: "How's the weather up there? I'm trying to finish packing"...
March 6, 2005
Tulane routs Marist in 'complete' game
New Orleans Times Picayune
One night after winning a suspense-filled game in the bottom of the 10th, Tulane did what No. 1-ranked teams are supposed to do. The Green Wave made it look easy...
Tulane makes C-USA tourney
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Ivan Pjevcevic that Tulane coach Shawn Finney had hoped to see earlier this season arrived Saturday, in a way few could have expected. Pjevcevic, a 7-footer limited in playing time after undergoing kneecap surgery a year ago, scored a career-high 24 points in the Green Wave's season finale to lead a 77-71 victory over East Carolina (9-19, 4-12) at Fogelman Arena...
Cannon to man Wave's middle
New Orleans Times Picayune
During the past three seasons, Anthony Cannon's main job was protecting one side of the football field. Next season, he'll be roaming the entire field. One of the moves Tulane has made in spring drills has been to shift Cannon to middle linebacker...
March 5, 2005
Wave faces must-win situation
New Orleans Times Picayune
Most coaches divide the season into three segments -- non-conference games, the conference schedule and the conference tournament. For Tulane to get to that third phase, it must win tonight's game against East Carolina. The two are battling for the 12th and final berth in next week's Conference USA tournament...
Tulane stops Marist on slam
New Orleans Times Picayune
There were moments Friday evening when the visiting Marist Red Foxes began feeling that this could be their night. Their starting pitcher was controlling Tulane's hitters. Their batters were making solid contact against Green Wave ace Brian Bogusevic. And the Red Foxes began to believe...
ECU men face Wave in must-win
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
The scenario for the East Carolina men's basketball team is simple entering tonight's contest against Tulane. Win and you're in, lose and go home...
March 4, 2005
Baseball coach loves his plates
New Orleans Times Picayune
He's never been on a cruise or vacationed abroad, doesn't play golf, fish or hunt, doesn't collect anything, has no hobbies and virtually no diversions from his passion in life -- coaching baseball...
Tulane relievers prove well-armed
New Orleans Times Picayune
Forget about the ballyhooed group of starting pitchers for the Tulane baseball team. With an arsenal of hard-throwing and wicked-offspeed-tossing relievers, the Green Wave's bullpen is just as feared as the starters on the nation's top-ranked team...
March 3, 2005
22nd-ranked Bearcats pull away from Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
For 25 minutes Wednesday night, it was as if Cincinnati was doing all it could to make its game with Tulane interesting. Then, in a matter of minutes, the Bearcats made certain Tulane knew who was in control...
TU's season a mystery to Stockton
New Orleans Times Picayune
From time to time, Tulane coach Lisa Stockton loses herself in the moment, allowing her mind to drift, reflecting on what transpired during a disappointing 2004-2005 campaign. The close losses. The mind-boggling losses. The blowout losses...
Big sendoff for seniors
Cincinnati Enquirer
It was a rotten way to celebrate Senior Night. The University of Cincinnati Bearcats posted a 77-56 victory over Tulane on Wednesday night before 12,262 fans at Fifth Third Arena to clinch a first-round bye in next week's Conference USA Tournament...
March 2, 2005
Manzella's bunt sparks Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
There were 23 hits, including three three-run homers, in a non-conference game between No. 1-ranked Tulane and UNO on Tuesday night. However, a bunt single wrapped up the Green Wave's 15-9 victory at Turchin Stadium...
Wave's Thompson wins individual crown
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane sophomore Michael Thompson birdied two of the last three holes Tuesday to capture the individual championship of the Nokia Sugar Bowl/Tulane Invitational at English Turn Golf & Country Club...
Tatarunas ready to start over
New Orleans Times Picayune
After starting 20 of 28 games and leading Tulane in rebounding last season, Green Wave junior forward Vytas Tatarunas couldn't wait for this season to start. He worked hard to stay in shape during the summer and added some international experience, scoring 24 points against Argentina and 19 points against the United States while playing for Lithuania in the Global Games...
Lucas rose to challenge
Cincinnati Post
Corpus Christi, Texas, is pretty far away from the rest of the college basketball world. The city of more than 275,00 people on the Gulf of Mexico is three hours -- the unofficial unit of measurement for distance in Texas is driving time -- from the University of Texas in Austin...
March 1, 2005
Academic statistics cheering to Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
The news was good for Tulane, mixed for LSU and bad for UNO. But everyone involved in studying the situation agreed that it's going to take a while to get used to the new NCAA academic performance scores for Division I schools, which were released Monday...
Privateers, TU are opposites
New Orleans Times Picayune
After being named baseball coach at UNO last June, Tom Walter found himself in the unenviable position of competing against two of the nation's top programs located within a 90-minute drive of the Privateers' campus...
TU's Wheeler, Thompson in contention at tourney
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane golfers Chris Wheeler and Michael Thompson weathered blustery conditions Monday and are in contention after 36 holes of the Nokia Sugar Bowl/Tulane Invitational at English Turn Golf & Country Club...
