December 2006 NewsStand
Jan 12, 2006 | General
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December 31, 2005
Double jeaopardy
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Try telling about 100 student-athletes they can't fulfill their athletic dreams. Then, try telling that to your son, too. That was Rick Dickson's unenviable task earlier this month, when post-Katrina financial conditions forced Tulane to suspend eight sports, including Doug Dickson's track and field team...
It's UNO's turn to return
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Earlier this week, the Tulane men's team played its first game of the season in New Orleans. Today, it's UNO's turn. "We're just looking forward to getting back," said Privateers coach Monte Towe, whose team faces the Green Wave at 1 p.m...
December 30, 2005
NCAA grants Tulane athletes new opportunity
New Orleans Times-Picayune
After having to deliver the bad news to nearly 100 of Tulane's student-athletes earlier this month, Green Wave athletic director Rick Dickson was recently handed a bit of good news. The NCAA has granted the athletes of the eight programs Tulane suspended Dec. 8 an opportunity to regain the year of eligibility...
Wave tops Toledo in OT
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's Jennifer Sands and Jami Montagnino finished with career highs and combined for 47 points to lead the Green Wave to a 77-67 victory over Toledo in overtime Thursday night in the consolation game of the Tulane Invitational at Fogelman Arena...
December 28, 2005
Tulane returns to New Orleans with romp over Richmond
CSTV.com
After surviving 118 days of Hurricane Katrina limbo, the displaced Tulane basketball team returned to its uptown campus bandbox called Fogelman Arena last night and played a genuine home game against Richmond...
Tulane victorious in return to Big Easy
Baton Rouge Advocate
It seemed like old times in Fogelman Arena on Tuesday night as a rookie head coach took the first steps in bringing the Tulane men's basketball team back. In 1989 it was Perry Clark guiding the Green Wave after a four-year absence in the wake of a point-shaving scandal...
Big return
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The Tulane Green Wave now knows what it feels like to play on its home court, and Tuesday night it didn't hide that feeling. Playing some of the best basketball it has played this season, the Green Wave, behind the cheering of 1,682 fans, started its 'new season' with an impressive 56-33 victory over Richmond at Fogelman Arena...
December 27, 2005
Tulane hopes to get back to normal
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane's basketball season has not gone the way Green Wave coach Dave Dickerson expected. But after playing its first eight games on the road, Dickerson is hoping his team's return to New Orleans will be enough to energize it...
December 26, 2005
For Tulane, a home game at home
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch
Tulane entertains the University of Richmond tomorrow night in a basketball game. Ho-hum? It's a national story. This meeting will be the first Tulane men's bas- ketball game in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters devastated the Gulf Coast region in late August...
December 25, 2005
In Katrina's wake, his dream survives
Portland (Maine) Press-Herald
Andrew Novick didn't want to be a banker or a businessman. He didn't want to work in government or someday run for office. He wanted to be a college basketball coach. Never mind that he seemed to lack the obvious credentials...
December 23, 2005
Dickerson home at last
Baltimore Sun
Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson played Tipitina's last week. The streetcars are running on Canal Street and the bars in the French Quarter have gotten the green light to remain open all night.
December 22, 2005
Tulane takes the long road home
FoxSports.com
On Christmas Day, Tulane coach Dave Dickerson will wake up early with his 5-year-old son, Dave III, and his wife, Laurette, and perform the normal ritual of unwrapping presents. Then Dickerson will get a special gift in the afternoon. He'll head to Fogelman Arena for his first official "home" practice as Tulane's men's basketball coach...
UNO to play Tulane at the Alario Center
Times Picayune
UNO's game with Tulane on New Year's Eve will be played at the Alario Center on the West Bank instead of the Human Performance Center on the Lakefront campus, UNO athletic director Jim Miller said Wednesday...
Montagnino's world turned upside down
Baton Rouge
Tulane junior guard Jami Montagnino actually convinced herself she was prepared for the return trip back to New Orleans. After four months of attending classes and practicing at Texas Tech University -- more than 13 hours away -- Montagnino anxiously awaited the drive from Louis Armstrong International Airport back to the place the former Christian Life Academy standout has called home for the past two-plus years...
December 21, 2005
Stockton, Tulane win off court, too
Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record
It was to be just another basketball game, one that would be played in Tulane's near-empty Fogelman Arena while the rest of the school's students were dashing home for the holidays after final exams. But that was back in the summer, seemingly another lifetime ago...
LSU's Fowles cleans up as Tigers rout Green Wave
Times Picayune
When asked to evaluate the progression of LSU sophomore Sylvia Fowles from when Tulane faced her last season to Tuesday night, Green Wave coach Lisa Stockton began the assessment with this disclaimer: "You can't coach 6-foot-6...
New outlook helps Fowles in win
Baton Rouge Advocate
LSU sophomore center Sylvia Fowles was halfway to an extraordinary road swing last week before hitting her first speed bump of the season. Fowles, a game removed from a career-best scoring effort against Ohio State, found herself caught in the stifling crosshairs of Kentucky's constant double-team defense...
December 20, 2005
LSU next mountain for Tulane to climb
Times Picayune
In one week, they penciled in the last Scantron bubbles at their temporary home, wiped the dust and mold off anything salvageable at their old home, moved into quick-fix, makeshift homes and brought back major college athletics to a city that gradually is resembling home, again...
Tulane women handling pressure
Baton Rouge Advocate
There was a captive audience awaiting Tulane women's basketball coach Lisa Stockton last month in Lubbock, Texas. Months had passed since Hurricane Katrina left a large swath of destruction through New Orleans, particularly on the campus of Tulane...
Tulane men lose finale in College Station
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Tulane basketball team's last home game at Reed Arena went into overtime, where the Green Wave lost to St. Edward's, 91-83, on Monday night. Tulane's men used Reed Arena for their home court after the team moved to Texas A&M for the fall semester because of damage to its New Orleans campus caused by Hurricane Katrina...
St. Edwards downs Tulane in OT, 91-83
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
David Lunn scored 24 points and Shawn Weinstein had 18 to lead St. Edward's past Tulane 91-83 in overtime on Monday night. St. Edward's (7-3) outscored Tulane 12-4 in overtime, scoring nine of its points on free throws. For the game, the Hilltoppers shot 80 percent from the foul line while the Green Wave shot 56 percent...
Lady Tigers to renew rivalvry with Tulane
The Shreveport Times
LSU's third-ranked women's basketball team, fresh off a successful two-game road swing, returns to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center to host Tulane tonight at 7. The Lady Tigers (7-0) defeated No. 4 Ohio State, 64-48, in Columbus on Thursday and followed that with a 66-36 win at Kentucky to open Southeastern Conference play on Sunday...
This time, attention is on the struggle
Hartford (Conn.) Courant
The games were lost. The day was not. The day was remarkable. On the surface, they were two ordinary college basketball games. Division I games, but not Top 25 encounters, not the kind that ordinarily find their way onto ESPN's "SportsCenter." But they did find their way there and they did because, believe it or not, even in 2005 sports are not always about the W's and the L's...
December 19, 2005
Tulane win 'step in right direction' for city
ESPN.com
As she stood on the Fogelman Arena floor, the Tulane Green Wave logo under her feet, Lisa Stockton couldn't find even the slightest of seconds for herself. Friends, teachers, parents, strangers -- they all wanted hugs. They all wanted to say thank you. And they all wanted to welcome the Tulane women's basketball coach home...
Tulane win gives New Orleans something to cheer about
Boston (Mass.) Globe
Alendra Brown, whose family's New Orleans home was ruined when 9 feet of water poured into it Aug. 29, scored the first points of the game, sending Tulane on its way to a 72-60 win over Central Connecticut State yesterday in the first collegiate or professional sporting event held in the Crescent City since Hurricane Katrina tore through Aug. 29...
Tulane women's basketball team first to play in New Orleans
USA Today (AP)
The New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Hornets haven't played a game here since Hurricane Katrina, but at long last, sports have returned to the Crescent City. The Tulane women's basketball team defeated Central Connecticut State 72-60 Sunday in the team's first game back in Fogelman Arena...
Tulane victorious in return to Fogelman Arena
Times Picayune
No one could have been happier to be back at Fogelman Arena than Tulane coach Lisa Stockton. With freshman Ashley Langford and Nikki Luckhurst each scoring 15 points, the Green Wave made a triumphant return to Fogelman Arena on Sunday afternoon with a 72-60 victory over Central Connecticut State...
Central Loses Game In New Orleans
Hartford (Conn.) Courant
In the first college sporting event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit Aug. 29, the Tulane women's basketball team overcame 23 points by Central Connecticut's Gabriella Guegbelet to defeat the Blue Devils 72-60 Sunday...
December 18, 2005
Tulane getting taste of home
Times Picayune
Until late this week, Tulane's Ashley Langford had barely set foot in Fogelman Arena. When the 5-foot-5 point guard from Harrisburg, Pa., steps on the court at Fogelman today, she and the Green Wave will be bringing basketball back to New Orleans...
Tulane ready for guests
Hartford (Conn.) Courant
When Central Connecticut women's basketball coach Yvette Harris scheduled today's game against Tulane, she had no idea of its significance. A year ago, Harris thought a trip to New Orleans after final exams would be a great idea. Her then-assistant coach Lamar Boutwell, who is from Louisiana, wanted to play LSU. They settled on Tulane...
Tulane women back home at last
Baltimore (Md.) Sun
Count on a big Green Wave of emotion when Tulane tips off at home today. It's not just any home game. The Green Wave hosts Central Connecticut State in the first significant sports event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city Aug. 29. It's another small sign that life is returning to the city...
Tulane men's basketball offers free admission for College Station finale
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
The Tulane men's basketball game on Monday evening at Reed Arena will be free and open to the public, the Green Wave Athletic Department announced on Friday. The Green Wave men's basketball team was one of six teams relocated to College Station where it has played three games to date. Monday's game against St. Edward's University, a Division II school for Austin, will be the fourth and final game at Reed Arena...
December 17, 2005
Tulane heralds return of New Orleans sports
MSNBC.com
Count on a big Green Wave of emotion when Tulane tips off at home Sunday. It's not just any home game. The Green Wave host Central Connecticut in the first significant sports event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Aug. 29. It's another small sign that life is returning to the city...
Tulane returning home for first time
Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
Tulane will host Central Connecticut on Sunday in the first significant sports event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Aug. 29. It's another small sign that life is returning to the city...
December 16, 2005
Tulane women bring sports back to bayou
ESPN.com
Nearly four months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city continues to slowly reopen. Katrina forced Tulane players like Jami Montagnino, left, and Nikki Luckhurst to live in Lubbock, Texas, until recently returning to New Orleans.Some hotels are back in business. The French Quarter is once again a destination. And the mayor is encouraging tourists to return...
Wave women return home to Fogelman
Times Picayune
At 7:50 a.m. Thursday, the Tulane women's basketball team said its final goodbyes to Texas Tech and Lubbock, Texas. Nine hours and a very long day later, the team was on the floor for its first practice at Fogelman Arena this season...
School daze for Walshe
Boston (Mass.) Globe
There is Christmas shopping for family members, yes; but Alison Walshe of Westford has been taking time to do some shopping for herself, just in case. After all, she may be in need of a college that offers her a chance to pursue her passion for golf...
December 15, 2005
Homecoming has new meaning to Tulane athletes
USA Today
Alendra Brown and her teammates have been through so much since the end of August that what sounds strange to us by now seems fairly normal to them. They have been playing basketball all fall, but Thursday, for the first time in 3½ months, they will set foot in their home gym. They also have been taking classes all semester but will see their campus for the first time as well...
December 14, 2005
After 2 transfers and one hurricane, Garcia rules Wave
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Andrew Garcia lost nearly all his worldly possessions in early September when Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast and caused some of the worst flooding this country has seen. Despite such an experience, Garcia, who evacuated to the safety of a friend's house in San Antonio before the storm hit, never has been happier and believes he has the world in the palm of his hands...
Tulane athletes opt to leave
Times Picayune
When Tulane announced last week that the women's golf program was among the eight sports being suspended to save money, its coach, Sue Bower, knew she would be flooded with phone calls...
Tulane cancels golf, Jacobs in limbo
The Telegraph (Godfrey, Ill.)
Mary Ellen Jacobs is home for the holidays, but the collegiate golfer is unsure what she will do after Christmas. Jacobs, an Illinois state champion for Marquette Catholic High in 2002, is a junior attending Tulane University in New Orleans. Yet she could be a player without a team next year. Tulane officials have announced they are suspending eight sports programs, including women's golf...
December 12, 2005
Tulane golf teams latest victims of Katrina
Golf World
The members of the Tulane men's and women's golf teams thought they had gotten through the worst from Hurricane Katrina, or at least hoped they had, while spending the past three months living in Dallas and going to classes at SMU after the devastating storm ransacked New Orleans along with most of the Gulf Coast Aug. 29. Like thousands displaced by Katrina, they wrested with the uncertainty it caused and attempted to bring some normalcy back into their lives, which for them included returning to the golf course and resuming their 2005-06 schedule...
One-On-One with Dave Dickerson
Scout.com
Dave Dickerson certainly didn't expect this kind of first season as a Division I head coach. In this Q&A session, Dickerson discusses Katrina, Tulane basketball and what it's like to recruit to a program devastated by a natural disaster...
Copeland, Pirates too much for Wave
Times Picayune
A career-high 25 points from point guard Donald Copeland, 18 of them scored in the first half, helped the Seton Hall Pirates defeat Tulane 83-64 at the Meadowlands on Sunday night...
Hall cruises past Green Wave
North Jersey Herald Times
Too small. Not a legitimate Big East player. And, worst of all, just not talented enough, period. Those were the whispers that have dogged Seton Hall point guard Donald Copeland since he inherited the starting point guard job after the departure of four-year starter Andre Barrett after the 2003-04 season...
December 11, 2005
Season looking up as Green Wave heading home
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Has a college program been more traumatized than Tulane's? The Green Wave has tried to hold it together ever since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans Aug. 29. The basketball team had been relocated to Texas A&M and coach Dave Dickerson was facing an uncertain future, not knowing if he would have a program to coach after this year...
Tulane waits for offense to catch up
Times Picayune
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson would like to see his team's offense be a little bit more productive, but while he waits, he's counting on defense to keep the Green Wave competitive. During the first six games, Tulane has held all but one team, Fairfield, below 50 percent shooting and four teams below 41 percent...
Tulane's Dickerson keeps team's focus on game following Hurricane Katrina
Hackensack (N.J.) Daily Record
Chris Moore did his best to muster a chuckle. "It's like being a freshman all over again," the Tulane junior guard said in a phone interview. Moore is referring to the existence he and his teammates have had so far in the 2005-06 season...
Tulane's Dickerson keeps team's focus on game following Hurricane Katrina
Gannett New Jersey
The challenges began for Dave Dickerson on Sept. 7, when his Tulane University basketball team reassembled in College Station, Texas, on the campus of Texas A&M. Hurdle after hurdle, Dickerson got his team ready to play basketball after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. But the psychological hurdle was the steepest of them all...
Wave of renovation
Times Picayune
Twenty-four hours after Tulane suspended half its sports teams, workers with masks were renovating the athletic headquarters, swamped by three feet of floodwater from Hurricane Katrina. The baseball field, next to the Wilson Center offices, looked like an abandoned lot. Track and field equipment was piled at one end of the Westfeldt Practice Facility, resembling a junkyard...
Prognosis favorable for pair of Green Wave players
Times Picayune
Perhaps no two players are more elated about the unchanged status of Tulane's football program than wide receiver Damarcus Davis and backup quarterback Nick Cannon...
December 9, 2005
Eight sports suspended
Times Picayune
Tulane has suspended eight sports teams Thursday in the sobering aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, an unprecedented move forced by an unstable financial climate. The school is hoping the new plan will save approximately $2 million annually in operational costs...
Affected coaches not surprised, say they understand decision
Times Picayune
When Tulane's women's basketball coach Lisa Stockton received word in Lubbock, Texas, of the programs the university was cutting to make ends meet, she couldn't help wondering about the theory by which most coaches go...
Tulane suspends eight athletic programs
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
Tulane is suspending half its athletic programs to cope with the financial damage done by Hurricane Katrina. The school will continue to compete in Conference USA in football, men's and women's basketball and baseball, along with volleyball, women's indoor track, outdoor track and cross-country...
December 8, 2005
NCAA: TU won't lose I-A status if sports cut
Times Picayune
The NCAA has assured Tulane it can cut athletic teams and remain in Division I-A, an ominous precursor to today's meeting of the Board of Trustees. The board, which began its meetings Wednesday, will vote on an array of cost-cutting possibilities to help Tulane remain viable in a post-Katrina New Orleans...
Tulane, stand up for all your athletes
Times Picayune
You wonder when, or if, Hurricane Katrina will go away. When, or if, the blows will stop coming, one after another after another, as if a succession of punchers were working over a body bag, the line of pugilists waiting for their turn to dig in Joe Frazier-sized hooks wrapped around a couple of blocks...
Moore leads Wave past Horned Frogs
Times Picayune
Chris Moore's 22 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:53 remaining, helped Tulane overcome 26 turnovers to outlast TCU 56-52 on Wednesday night at Texas A&M's Reed Arena. Moore led all scorers, and he hit nine of 13 shots, including going 4-for-7 from beyond the arc. He scored Tulane's first six points in the second half...
December 7, 2005
'Not for thyself, but for others'
Times Picayune
The coach looked at his players and began to cry. On Nov. 25, Tulane's football team had just lost its eighth straight game; when it last won, New Orleans was still damp with floodwaters. After the season finales at Southern Mississippi, the crestfallen players in tattered jerseys sat in front of Chris Scelfo, the leader of this team of hurricane evacuees...
Tulane athletics in jeopardy as board considers cutbacks
Times Picayune
The future of a post-Katrina Tulane University will be determined in part by board meetings today and Thursday, with the possibility of unprecedented cuts to programs, including athletics. The Tulane Board of Trustees will discuss the possibility of cutting athletic teams to save costs, sources said Tuesday...
Transfer Garcia's role expanding for Green Wave
Times Picayune
When Andrew Garcia's plan to play basketball as a walk-on at Villanova failed in 2002, he went to Plan B -- walking on and playing football at the University of Pittsburgh. But there were two problems with Plan B...
Tulane men's basketball to face TCU
Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle
After a three-game road swing, the Tulane men's basketball returns will play host to Texas Christian in the C-USA/Mountain West Challenge on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The game at Reed Arena will be televised nationally on College Sports TV...
December 5, 2005
Tulane holds off Lehigh
Times Picayune
In its fourth game decided by five points or less, the Tulane women's basketball team claimed its third victory of the season, 65-63 over Lehigh in the consolation game of the Mission Management & Trust Fiesta Bowl Classic in Tucson, Ariz. Tulane withstood a rally by Lehigh in the closing seconds, which included a missed desperation shot as the buzzer sounded and made put-back shot after the buzzer...
December 4, 2005
Tlane looking forward to home after Katrina
Arizona Daily Star
Tulane women's basketball coach Lisa Stockton is eager to get back to Fogelman Arena, the on-campus basketball facility where 3,600 fans seem to be sitting right on top of you. The old building opened in 1933, funded by Tulane's appearance in 1932 Rose Bowl. Tulane forward Alendra Brown can't wait to get back to the city where she was raised...
Chicago State trips Tulane
Times Picayune
Tulane's Nikki Luckhurst scored a career-high 20 points but it was not enough as the Green Wave fell 65-64 to Chicago State on Saturday in the opening round of the Mission Management & Trust Fiesta Bowl Classic...
Tulane's defense falters in loss
Times Picayune
Tulane's Andrew Garcia scoring 18 points and David Gomez scoring 14 points in 19 minutes, but Fairfield beat Tulane 80-68 in the consolation game of the Hawkeye Challenge...
Women's hoops falls to Chicago State
Baton Rouge Advocate (AP)
Tulane trailed 65-62 with less than 20 seconds remaining, and Luckhurst's three-point attempt was deflected by a Chicago State player. Freshman Kendra Barnes grabbed her team-high eighth rebound and scored on the put-back at the buzzer, but the Wave fell short to drop to 2-1 on the season...
December 3, 2005
Doubt lingers for Tulane football players
Times Picayune
The 2005 season and fall exams are over for Tulane's football players, but their worries aren't. Several players said they are concerned about next week's Board of Trustees meeting in which the viability of several departments in the university, including athletics, will be discussed. Some athletic programs could be eliminated or scaled back...
Loss of focus costs Tulane
Times Picayune
First-year Tulane coach Dave Dickerson shaves his head. It's a good thing. Friday's 79-72 loss against Valparaiso likely would have brought some gray hair. The Green Wave built an early lead, fell behind big and then positioned itself to win in the final minutes. It all brought a huge frown to Dickerson's face as he stood in the locker room at Carver-Hawkeye Arena...
Wave takes another award
Times Picayune
Tulane, wouldn't you know, is the darling of awards season. The football Green Wave, winners of just two games but survivors of unfathomable circumstances, has received its second national honor: Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award, given annually to college football's most inspirational athlete or team...
December 2, 2005
Wave looking for lift from Davis
Times Picayune
Shortly after Tulane's season-opening victory against UNO, Green Wave coach Dave Dickerson said his team was missing a strong performance from senior center Quincy Davis...
Fall ball completed, Wave eyeing home
Times Picayune
Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones went out to get the newspaper this week and got another reminder that he wasn't in New Orleans. "It was about 19 degrees," said Jones, stationed with the Green Wave players at Texas Tech in Lubbock. "I was told I'd need an overcoat. They were right...
A Wave of Hope
CNNSI.com
The Tulane women's basketball team will be home for the holidays. After months on the road, the team is set to return to New Orleans on Dec. 15. For the Green Wave's players, it will be their first time back in the Big Easy since Hurricane Katrina blew through their city on Aug. 29...
Tulane trying to ride out Katrina
Quad-City (Iowa) Times
Lessons from the past have helped first-year Tulane basketball coach Dave Dickerson deal with the present. Dickerson became the head coach at the New Orleans school last April, but the game plan for his rookie season was swept away in the Hurricane Katrina floodwaters that chased the Green Wave from their home in September...
Rough road for Tulane to Iowa
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Tulane coach Dave Dickerson paid his dues before landing a head coaching job last April. He was an assistant at Maryland for nine years and is credited with recruiting some of the key players in the Terps' rise to a national championship...
December 1, 2005
Polk impressive in victory
Indianapolis Star
Butler's Brandon Polk doesn't make excuses for a lack of size, Tulane coach Dave Dickerson said. So Dickerson doesn't want his team to make any for the lack of a permanent home. Behind Polk's 26 points, the Bulldogs beat Tulane 82-61 Wednesday night in a duel of basketball itinerants before a crowd of 2,451 at Hinkle Fieldhouse...
Butler downs Tulane, 82, 61
ESPN.com (AP)
Brandon Polk scored 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting and Butler led by double digits through most of the second half to beat Tulane 82-61 Wednesday night. Avery Sheets scored 16, A.J. Graves 14 and Bruce Horan 12 for Butler (3-3), which led by 23 with 2:07 left. Polk also had six rebounds...
