Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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ern Louisiana. The largest crowd to attend a regular season home game saw the Colonels defeat rival Southeastern Louisiana 68-65, as 5,000 plus watched. The Colonels traveled to Hammond two nights later and easily beat the Lions, making it the first time Nicholls defeated the Lions twice in one year. After wins over Whitworth College and Tennessee-Martin, the Colonels' bubble burst as North Alabama and Northwestern took back-to-back conference victories from Nicholls. After our two late-season losses, our backs were against the wall and we knew we had to win the rest of our games, Landry noted. From that point on, we went out and played super basketball to win the conference and regional championships, he said. The Colonels took wins of 93-72 and 99-66 over Delta State and Mississippi College to win the GSC title. Against Mississippi College, a slam dunk midway through the second half by Richard Polk sent the crowd and the team to its first GSC title. Breaking around a Missouri-Lincoln Tiger, John Perry moves in during the first round of the NCAA South Regional playoffs. The Colonels won 97-79. Before Theo Barnes can stop him, Richard Polk works inside before early foul trouble put him onthe bench. Polk returned the next night in the win against Grambling to score 20 points, 'rite :3'3.P1.l.lgj uri '17 wins brings 21 new 1-asm-11, 'Ill ar3i3ant31un A Season to Remember

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il ella lt lQ27,,tA Pl y tffrs With one player on the floor, another called Although he went down, the ref- Delta Statesman keeps his hands off eree did not call a foul on Paul John Paul to prevent a foul from being Barry Loggins fails to stop Larry WiIson's shot in the NCAA playoffs against Missouri Lincoln University Wilson led the GSC in scoring with a 21 point aver- age, Earlier in the week, Nicholls was chosen to host and participate in the NCAA regionals. A strong offensive show against Missouri-Lincoln gave Nicholls a 97-79 win and a spot in the finals against the Grambling Tigers. The Colo- nels looked too powerful in the first halt as they led the Tigers by as much as 23 points and took a 51 -37 lead. However, All-American Larry Wright's shoot- ing paced Grambling to the lead with two min- utes left. Landry, realizing his team's shooting was cold, changed his strategy and made the Colonels feed Shelby Hypolite on the inside. Hypolite responded with 33 points as the Colo- nels pulled out a 90-89 win as the largest crowd in Nicholls' history of 5,500 went into hysteria. The season and the story ended two days later, as Wayne Golden led Tennessee-Chatta- nooga to a 107-78 win over the Colonels. Gol- den contributed 41 points as Larry Wilson had 32 for the Colonels, Turnovers and the loss of Hypolite to foul trouble hurt the Colonels' chances of coming back. Nicholls lost five seniors, Hypolite, Polk, John Perry, Terry Fields and John Nunez. Other players were Jeff Cooper, Russell Menard, Mike Talbert, George Parker, John Paul, Sonny Charpentier, Joel l-iron and Chris Raymond, each contributing to the season to remember, A Season to Remember 117