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McNeese’s G.O.A.T.

Rick Sarro February 20, 2023 Comments Off on McNeese’s G.O.A.T.

How can the man with the most accomplished and decorated sports career in McNeese school history be so grateful about having a simple basketball court named in his honor? The answer is simple but

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Polar Opposites

Rick Sarro March 24, 2022 Comments Off on Polar Opposites

With first-year head coaches and almost entirely new rosters, I didn’t expect sterling results from either of McNeese’s basketball teams this season. The Cowboys and Cowgirls have both surprised me, but in totally different

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Battle Tested

Rick Sarro January 9, 2020 Comments Off on Battle Tested

The McNeese Cowboys basketball team spent a good portion of November on the road banking coin playing those annual early season guaranteed money games. It helps with the budget, no doubt, and allows this

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King Zion

Rick Sarro July 19, 2019 Comments Off on King Zion

He’s not yet the King of Mardi Gras, but that will surely come. Zion Williamson is the center of the NBA universe, not only in his new basketball home of New Orleans and the

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Wiretaps And Basketball

Rick Sarro April 4, 2019 Comments Off on Wiretaps And Basketball

FBI wiretaps, federal investigators, subpoenas, guilty verdicts and plea bargains. Mix all that with college basketball recruiting and you have a colossal problem that could take down big-name coaches and programs and further scar

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Basketball Rebirth

Rick Sarro December 6, 2018 Comments Off on Basketball Rebirth

The McNeese Cowboys’ new head basketball coach Heath Schroyer has been somewhat akin to the CEO of a company going public on the New York Stock Exchange. Since his hiring in March, Schroyer has

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Running Out Of Gas

Rick Sarro March 15, 2018 Comments Off on Running Out Of Gas

Over the past five or so years, the McNeese Cowboys basketballers appeared on paper as if they could compete with the upper tier of the Southland Conference. Stats and projections on paper won’t win

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Patience Needed

Rick Sarro April 20, 2017 Comments Off on Patience Needed

The McNeese Cowboys will never be playing basketball in late March or early April in reconfigured football stadiums in Phoenix, Indianapolis, Houston or New Orleans. Participation in the Final Four and NCAA basketball championship

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