January 2004 NewsStand
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Feb. 2, 2004
Jan. 31, 2004
Stakes high for Eagles, Tulane
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
For Southern Miss, it's a chance to snap a two-game losing streak. For Tulane, it's an opportunity to pick up its first Conference USA basketball win of the season...
It's been a wild ride for Southern Miss
New Orleans Times Picayune
As Southern Mississippi's coach the past seven seasons, James Green has seen the Golden Eagles go on one roller coaster ride after another. But this season has been as perplexing as any Green has been through...
Green: Wave has lean, hungry look
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion Ledger
While hoping his words don't prove prophetic, Southern Miss coach James Green said he's got a pretty good idea of what his Golden Eagles can expect tonight when they meet Tulane at Fogelman Arena...
Both Southern Mississippi teams get back in league action today
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
The Southern Mississippi basketball teams go into this weekend trying to reverse recent fortune...
Tulane, Memphis have familiar look
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Memphis women's team is in a transition season, dealing with a new offense after losing its dominating center who led the team in scoring...
Lady Tigers' schedule gets tweak for Super Bowl
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
For the first time since Joye Lee-McNelis became the University of Memphis women's basketball coach, she'll be able to watch the Super Bowl...
Jan. 30, 2004
USM basketball team needs road victory in the worst way
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
This is not what the Golden Eagles needed. After three really good performances bookended by blowout losses against top-10 Louisville and Cincinnati, the University of Southern Mississippi men's basketball team headed to TCU Wednesday...
Jan. 29, 2004
Blazers pull away, defeat Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
For a moment Wednesday night, Tulane seemed ready to score an upset. Then, within a matter of minutes, Alabama-Birmingham turned a close game into a runaway...
Blazers up to the challenge vs. Wave
Birmingham News
UAB coach Mike Anderson and senior forward Sidney Ball wouldn't elaborate on exactly what was said during the Blazers' timeout at the 7:19 mark of the second half in Wednesday night's game with Tulane...
Jan. 28, 2004
Wave begins practice with lofty goal
New Orleans Times Picayune
The bright whites symbolized the start of Tulane's baseball season Tuesday. There were the whites of the unused baseballs, waiting to be scuffed and smacked...
UAB might set trap against Wave today
New Orleans Times Picayune
Months before Tulane and Alabama-Birmingham met last season, Green Wave coach Shawn Finney said he was not looking forward to playing against Mike Anderson's Blazers...
Blazers try to avoid repeat
Birmingham News
The UAB men's basketball team has a motto that goes something like this: "One pat on the back will set you back."...
Jan. 27, 2004
USM will miss TCU, but feels C-USA safe
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
The expected departure of TCU to the Mountain West Conference will leave Conference USA searching for another ally to come aboard...
TRYING TIMES AT TULANE
New Orleans Times Picayune
Shortly after Tulane's loss to Memphis a week ago, its fourth straight, Green Wave coach Shawn Finney was standing outside his team's locker room talking about the defeat...
TRYING TIMES AT TULANE
New Orleans Times Picayune
Let's call it a "blip." Coach Lisa Stockton does. So does her boss, Athletic Director Rick Dickson. Since taking the job as Tulane women's basketball coach, Stockton has batted 1.000, going to the NCAA Tournament nine times in nine seasons...
Billikens get lift from homestand
New Orleans Times Picayune
Saint Louis coach Brad Soderberg is discovering that having a nice homestand near the beginning of conference play can make a huge difference...
Jan. 25, 2004
'It wasn't pretty,' but Tulane takes win
New Orleans Times Picayune
Forget the fact that Tulane needed to go on a 10-3 run during the final 2 ? minutes of the game to make it look like it scored a knockout against Savannah State...
Tempo key for Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Demons will exercise you. DePaul likes to run and gun on offense and aggressively go for a steal on the defensive end...
LSU, Tulane see productive offseason
New Orleans Times Picayune
As the countdown to a national day of decision reaches 11 days, let's take a look at the returns from the Tulane and LSU caucuses...
Jan. 24, 2004
Happy Camper thrives in new role
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Vincent Camper realizes there is an advantage to sitting on the bench. He says a young player like himself gets a different perspective of how the game develops and what opponents are trying to do...
Losman noticed at Senior Bowl
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman appears to have passed the initial NFL draft test with a productive week of practice at the 55th annual Senior Bowl...
Jan. 23, 2004
Struggling Green Wave faces Marquette
New Orleans Times Picayune
There's a cold front headed north. The Tulane women's basketball team, in Milwaukee to play Marquette, is last in Conference USA in shooting at 39.1 percent...
'Voices' speak on kids' behalf
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Voice of Tulane was restless. Though Sean Kelley had recently landed his dream job as Tulane's sports broadcaster, something still gnawed at him. He wanted to do more...
Jan. 21, 2004
Minor-leaguers join spring list
Akron Beacon-Journal
Michael Aubrey and Brad Snyder are going to the big leagues. Isn't it a little soon for two 2003 first-round draft picks to make it to the show? Yes and no. Aubrey, the 11th pick overall, and Snyder, No. 18, aren't staying long, but they have been invited to the Indians' big-league camp in Winter Haven when spring training begins in February...
Tigers' firepower too much for Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane coach Shawn Finney said silencing Memphis' offense was going to be a challenge. He was right...
Tigers click against Wave
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Anthony Rice was sinking 3-pointers. Rodney Carney was throwing down dunks. And though on the surface that probably seems like no big deal, it is, considering the slumps those two University of Memphis standouts have been suffering through...
Tigers postgame
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The Tigers have a thing where if the shot clock is running down everybody is supposed to yell ''Butter! Butter! Butter!'' to let the guy with the ball know he has to get a shot...
Tulane C-USA baseball favorite
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane received seven of 12 first-place votes and was selected the favorite in Conference USA for the upcoming baseball season, the league announced Tuesday...
Opposites could attract 'Fins' QB eye
Palm Beach (Fla.) Post
Dolphins executive Dan Marino didn't ask many questions during the team's group interviewing of college players after Senior Bowl practices...
Jan. 20, 2004
Tigers know Tulane can be dangerous
Mobile Register
Mewelde Moore has an announcement for the NFL scouts watching him this week at the Senior Bowl: baseball is no longer in his plans...
Tigers know Tulane can be dangerous
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Sean Banks was presented the scenario. Then the opponents. Then the dates. And before the question was even complete, the University of Memphis freshman knew what was coming...
Analyzing the Keys to the Game
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The best way to ensure the cozy surroundings at Fogelman Arena don't become a problem is to jump on Tulane quickly and get the game over with before it really begins. Memphis is capable of doing that, as it showed against Charlotte...
Preview: Tigers vs. Tulane
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Though the Tigers won at tiny Fogelman Arena last season, there was nothing easy about it. It took a pair of late 3-pointers from senior John Grice to help Memphis to a 58-57 victory...
No winner-take-all
New Orleans Times Picayune
No. 6 Cincinnati and No. 5 Louisville meet Wednesday night at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Ky., and the winner won't get a free pass for the rest of its Conference USA games. The loser's season isn't exactly doomed. At least that's the way Bearcats coach Bob Huggins sees it...
TE/deep snapper commits to TU
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane has received a commitment from Craig Gelhardt of Lincoln High in Tallahassee, Fla. Gelhardt is a 6-foot-4, 230-pound tight end and deep snapper who was a three-year starter at the Class 4A school. He committed following his visit this past weekend...
Jan. 19, 2004
49ers' Harris keeps TU at bay
New Orleans Times Picayune
Who said sleeping with the fishes was a bad thing? Charlotte guard Peaches Harris, coming off a poor shooting performance, was given a toy rubber fish by Coach Katie Meier, who insisted it was good luck...
West St. John quarterback commits to play for Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane has added four commitments to its football recruiting totals. West St. John quarterback Josh Lumar, Kentwood safety Renovell Hill, St. Helena Central offensive tackle Percy Huff and defensive end Julian Lowe have committed to the Green Wave...
Jan. 18, 2004
Wave bracing for Charlotte
New Orleans Times Picayune
When a team is struggling as badly as Tulane, the only thing to do is to look for a silver lining...
Cardinals wear down Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Although Tulane coach Shawn Finney was disappointed with the outcome, he was satisfied with the effort...
Doing it with D again
Louisville Courier-Journal
Entering last night's game against Tulane, University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino said he hadn't experienced a longer sleepless period since his fraternity rush week in college...
Jan. 17, 2004
East Carolina pounds Wave in second half
New Orleans Times Picayune
Everything suddenly seemed peachy for Tulane, which responded to its dormant performance against Southern Mississippi with a solid first half against East Carolina, loaded with effective pressing, forced turnovers and timely shooting...
Pirate women defeat Tulane
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
East Carolina's women's basketball team continued its strong start in Conference USA this season, knocking off hosting Tulane 65-58 for its third straight victory in the league...
Assistants prep Cards for Wave
Louisville Courier-Journal
University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino left the preparations for tonight's 7:30 home game against Tulane in the hands of his assistants and players yesterday as he dealt with two more tragedies close to his family...
Cardinals follow Pitino's lead
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich hired Rick Pitino in 2001 to begin what he felt was a major restoration job on the Cardinals' downtrodden basketball program, he knew it was going to take some time...
Jan. 16, 2004
Rejuvenated Green Wave wants to regain intensity
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane, of late, has racked up some L's. And not just losses. "Lackadaisical," Coach Lisa Stockton said of her team's latest performance...
Lady Pirates get Tulane tonight in C-USA contest
Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector
East Carolina's women's basketball team takes to the road for the first time in Conference USA play tonight, visiting Tulane...
Garcia and Dean are men beyond their years
Louisville Courier-Journal
Keep your eye on the ball. It's an elementary rule of sports. But for University of Louisville basketball players Taquan Dean and Francisco Garcia, it has been a rule of life...
Jan. 15, 2004
Tulane's Moore, Losman suit up for Senior Bowl
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane quarterback J.P. Losman and running back Mewelde Moore, who completed their Green Wave careers in 2003 as two of the most prolific players in school history, will team up once again to represent the South at the 2004 Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala...
Jan. 14, 2004
C-USA poised to clean up come March
ESPN.com
In the zero-sum game that is college basketball, one league's misfortune can be another's lucky break. Thus we find Conference USA dancing over the prone carcasses of the Big Ten and Pacific-10...
Conference swaps stuck over money
New Orleans Times Picayune
Lame ducks will be in abundance in college athletics in 2004-05. Five current Conference USA members scheduled to move to the Big East in 2005 won't be able to move a year earlier than planned...
Jan. 13, 2004
USM coach makes sure his team not forgotten
New Orleans Times Picayune
Maybe James Green needs to get upset every week. Just two days after saying on a morning radio show and then telling the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger that the Southern Mississippi athletic administration has all but forgotten about the basketball program, his struggling Golden Eagles broke a five-game losing streak by upsetting Memphis on Saturday...
Jan. 11, 2004
Frogs go distance to slip by Tulane
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TCU point guard Corey Santee wasn't worried about the past. Never mind the botched defensive assignments, clanked shots or unusual mishaps that have plagued the Horned Frogs late in games...
Southern Miss runs away from Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Southern Miss' Deondra Carter had 25 points and nine rebounds to leads the Golden Eagles to a 68-51 win over the Tulane women's basketball team on Saturday in Hattiesburg, Miss...
Jan. 10, 2004
Shooting woes are puzzling Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
As Tulane coach Shawn Finney sat in the locker room at New Orleans Arena following the Green Wave's 72-50 loss to Mississippi State on Dec. 27, he seemed puzzled by his team's sudden inability to score. It was the second consecutive game in which it went a lengthy stretch without scoring...
Gameday: Tulane at TCU men
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
After Wednesday's 60-50 loss to Saint Louis in their conference opener, the Horned Frogs will attempt to reach .500 for first time ever in Conference USA play...
TU opens C-USA slate
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Delacey Joseph is one of the conference's most streaky players. And Thursday night against Arkansas State she epitomized that with 37 seconds of dominating basketball, followed by a litany of missed shots...
Jan. 9, 2004
Tulane survives again
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the third time this season, Tulane opened a large second-half lead, only to watch the opponent whittle it away...
C-USA awaits TCU's decision
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky will propose a plan at this weekend's NCAA convention in Nashville, Tenn., that would allow a finalization of conference alignments in time for the 2004-05 seasons...
Tulane assistant going to Tennessee
New Orleans Times Picayune
Trooper Taylor, one of Tulane's most popular assistant football coaches with the players, has resigned his position and accepted an offer to join Phillip Fulmer's staff at Tennessee...
Lady Tribe rally falls short at Tulane
Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun
The Arkansas State women's basketball team rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to within two before falling to nonconference foe Tulane 59-56 at the Fogelman Arena Thursday night...
Jan. 8, 2004
C-USA's $10 million tag too steep
ESPN.com
The major realignment that affects seven conferences will take place in 2005-06 -- and not in the fall of 2004 -- because conference commissioners failed to produce a financial resolution to pay Conference USA to move up the process by a year...
Hampton, Wave look to build momentum for C-USA play
New Orleans Times Picayune
What's up with Country? Tulane's Lakethia "Country" Hampton, generally the Green Wave's energetic and loquacious center, has been ineffective of late...
Lady Tribe visits Tulane
Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun
Working on just two nights of rest, the Arkansas State Lady Indians continue their non-conference revenge tour this evening, hoping to blast the Tulane Green Wave and record their 10th victory of the season...
Wave gets steamrolled in conference opener
New Orleans Times Picayune
Cincinnati came into Fogelman Arena on Wednesday night unbeaten and untested. The Bearcats left the same way...
Win leaves Huggins seeing red
Cincinnati Enquirer
The first venture this season into Conference USA brought out the worst in the University of Cincinnati basketball team Wednesday night...
UC routs Tulane, awaits challenges
Cincinnati Post
One thing about the University of Cincinnati basketball team became quite obvious here Wednesday night: The unbeaten Bearcats are ready to be challenged this season...
Jan. 7, 2004
Huggins, Cincinnati on a roll Bearcats face Wave in C-USA opener
New Orleans Times Picayune
The 2002-03 season was a trying time for Cincinnati's Bob Huggins...
UC wants its crown back
Cincinnati Post
Tonight, the University of Cincinnati basketball team will try to start its trek back to the top of Mount Conference USA. And, heading into the league opener here against struggling Tulane, the unbeaten but unchallenged Bearcats certainly don't lack for confidence about their prospect of regaining C-USA ownership...
Tulane's arena a tough venue
Cincinnati Post
Tulane's Fogelman Arena, which isn't much bigger than a walk-in closet, used to be an intimidating place for Green Wave opponents...
UC aiming to reclaim league title
Cincinnati Enquirer
When he signed to play basketball at the University of Cincinnati, Eric Hicks assumed he would win the Conference USA championship every year...
TU finding groove
New Orleans Times Picayune
Who knew? Tulane is a cold-weather team. As the Wave headed to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the scouting report told Tulane that its opponent had intimidating size and played extremely well at home...
Jan. 6, 2004
Wave might play Rattlers
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson confirmed Monday that the university is close to signing an agreement with Florida A&M following more than a month of discussions...
Jan. 5, 2004
TU's Brown rebounds from illness
New Orleans Times Picayune
At this time a year ago, Tulane center George Brown had every right to be discouraged...
Wave not taking any team lightly
New Orleans Times Picayune
Their opponent's name surely is a mouthful. And if the Tulane players aren't careful, Texas A&M Corpus Christi could be a handful, too...
Jan. 1, 2004
Wave rallies to beat Colonels
New Orleans Times Picayune
Facing adversity has been a constant for Tulane since it returned from its final exams in late December. On Wednesday, the Green Wave took a big step in learning how to overcome it...
