University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Houston
Landry-Led Cajuns Top Houston
1/3/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004
Landry's career-best performance helped Louisiana-Lafayette offset the fact that Houston held its leading scorer Brad Boyd to no field goals and just two points.
Boyd, averaging 15 points per game entering the contest, was held to just two free throws made both of which were made with 1:20 remaining in the game.
UL Lafayette held a 34-23 lead at the half. Houston would close the gap to 55-49 with 9:21 remaining in the game on a basket in the lane from Lanny Smith.
Louisiana-Lafayette would seize control of the game following Smith's bucket, using a 9-0 run over the next three minutes to open a 64-49 lead with 6:32 left in the game.
Cedric Williams rebounded his own miss for a basket at the 8:14 mark of the second half to begin the Cajuns decisive run.
Landry would score the Cajuns next five points the first of which came off a steal on UH's next possession to put UL Lafayette back up top by double-digits 59-49.
It was Landry's final bucket of the run, a three-pointer from the right corner, which all but sealed the game for the Cajuns. The three-pointer gave UL Lafayette a 62-49 edge with 7:06 left to play.
After a Williams rebound of his own miss for the second time made it 64-49, Anwar Ferguson ended the Cougars drought with a slam at the 6:19 mark which made it 64-51.
UL Lafayette's lead stayed in double-figures the final seven minutes of the contest. The closest the Cougars could get was 11 points, 75-64, with 2:18 left on the clock.
The Cajuns then scored the next six points to open its largest lead of the night 81-64 with 1:10 remaining in regulation. It was a one-handed slam by Mitchell over Ferguson as he was crossing the lane which put the exclamation point on the Cajuns largest lead of the evening.
Williams scored 15 and Laurie Bridges and Dwayne Mitchell each had 12 points as UL Lafayette placed four scorers in double-digits – the sixth straight game that at least three players had double-digits scoring.
Landry followed up a 6-of-10 performance from three-point land against No. 4 Arizona Tuesday by making 6-of-9 against UH. His 26 points topped his previous career-high of 22 scored at Xavier (Ohio) on Dec. 20.
Louisiana-Lafayette outrebounded Houston 34-30 led by a game-high 10 rebounds from Brian Hamilton. It marked just the third time this season that the Cajuns have outrebounded an opponent.
Bridges and Mitchell each had four assists to lead the Cajuns.
Houston received a team-best 21 points from its leading scorer Andre Owens. Marcus Oliver chipped in with a season-best 20 points.
Ferguson led the Cougars with eight boards and tallied a game-high six blocked shots.
UL Lafayette made 52 percent of its baskets (30-of-58). UH shot equally as impressive hitting 49 percent (27-of-55).
The Cougars were held to no three-pointers in the opening frame but fired back with seven in the second half allowing them to chip into the Cajuns double-digit halftime margin.
The first half opened with a pair of runs by both teams.
UL Lafayette began the game with the first four points and Landry's second three-pointer of the game gave the Cajuns a 9-2 lead at the 16:49 mark.
UH made its first-half run, scoring the next eight points to take its only lead of the game.
Trailing 10-9, Louisiana-Lafayette regained the lead for good when Hamilton stuffed home a bounce pass from Mitchell on a fastbreak to put the Cajuns up 11-10 with 13:01 left in the first half.
The lead stayed within six points until the five-minute mark when UL Lafayette staged a 10-4 run to end the first half.
Leading 24-19 with 5:44 to go before the break, Landry made another three-point basket to give the Cajuns a 27-19 advantage at the 5:18 mark.
After UH trimmed the lead to 30-23, Bridges was fouled by Smith on a three-point attempt to the right of the key. Bridges sank the bucket and made the freebie to convert the four-point play and extend the Cajuns lead to 34-23 with 1:17 left before half.
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