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Mr. Tiras "T-Wade" Wade
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Home Phone: -- April 10,2005 – UL stars Petrakova, Wade forced to settle for second team. From staff reports LSU’s Brandon Bass and Seimone Augustus have been named men’s and women’s Players of the Year on the 2005 All-Louisiana Basketball Team selected by a panel of voters for the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. SEC Player of the Year Bass is joined on the men’s first team by teammate Glen Davis, the LSWA Freshman of the Year, as well as La. Tech’s Paul Millsap, Ricky Woods of Southeastern Louisiana and UNO’s Bo McCalebb. Tiras Wade, the Most Outstanding Player in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament for the Sun Belt champion Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns, tied with SLU’s Woods for Newcomer of the Year honors. Wade and teammate Brian Hamilton were selected to the LSWA second team, while UL’s Orien Greene and Dwayne Mitchell were honorable mention choices. Anna Petrakova, who helped lead Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns to a 22-9 record and the finals of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, was a second-team selection on the women’s list. Teammate Ashley Blanche received honorable mention. SLU’s Billy Kennedy was named the Coach of the Year. UL’s Robert Lee got two votes as Coach of the Year after guiding the Cajuns to the Sun Belt title and an NCAA Tournament berth in his first season. St. Martinville’s Darrel Mitchell of LSU and North Vermilion product Casey Meador of Louisiana College were both honorable mention on the men’s team. National Player of the Year Augustus led LSU to the NCAA Women’s Final Four, an achievement that also earned Pokey Chatman Coach of the Year recognition. LSU’s Sylvia Fowles was the Freshman of the Year, while Grambling State’s Juleen Smith was Newcomer of the Year. Joining Augustus on the LSWA women’s first team are LSU teammates Fowles and Temeka Johnson, along with La. Tech’s Tasha Crain and Southern’s Rolanda Monroe. Hall, Wade, Greene picked March 03, 2005 – Bruce Brown Greene, Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior point guard, rejoined the Cajuns one game into their Sun Belt Conference title defense after breaking a leg last Dec. 11 at Kansas, and UL immediately went to work leading the league in 3-point field goal defense at 31.1 percent. “I work hard every day on the defensive end, and it looks like it paid off,” said Greene, who leads the Sun Belt in steals with 2.67 per game. “When we get clicking on defense, it gets us going,” Greene added. “We can get it off the rim and just go. When we do that, I think we can run with any team in the country.” Greene also averages 11.6 points and 4.14 assists per game for UL. He and fellow senior Brian Hamilton are 1-2 in steals, with Hamilton at 2.48 per game, and the two also stand together as second-team selections on the All-Sun Belt Team. Hamilton averages 13.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots per game for UL, and is fifth in the league in shooting percentage at 54.0. Louisiana’s lone representative on the first-team All-Sun Belt list is junior wingman Tiras Wade, who was also tabbed as the Newcomer of the Year after transferring to UL from East Tennessee State. Wade is averaging 19.7 points per game and is second in the league only to New Orleans guard Bo McCalebb’s 22.6. His 531 points through 27 games is the most by a Cajun men’s player since Michael Allen scored 682 and averaged 22.7 per game in 1993-94. “I really don’t think much about All-Conference honors,” said Wade, who averages 2.48 3-pointers per game and is hitting 80 percent of his free throws. “I’m glad I’m on the team, and I’m honored, but my main thing is making to the NCAA Tournament. I’ve never been, and I think we’ll have under-accomplished as a team if we don’t get there.” The Cajuns are 17-10 on the year and finished 11-4 in Sun Belt action, placing second to Denver in the Western Division when they lost two games in Arkansas in the last week of the season. Now they need to recapture their edge for the upcoming Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Denton, Texas. “I don’t really dwell on it (All-Sun Belt) so much,” Wade said. “We lost those last two games, and that overshadows everything. Maybe if we had won them it would be different.” Wade is joined on the first team by Player of the Year Yemi Nicholson of Denver, McCalebb, Florida International’s Ivan Almonte and by Western Kentucky’s Anthony Winchester. WKU’s Courtney Lee is the Freshman of the Year, while Denver’s Terry Carroll is Coach of the Year after winning the West when his Pioneers were picked to place last. “All our guys on the All-Sun Belt Team deserve this honor,” UL coach Robert Lee said. “Tiras proved all season long that he was one of the best players in the conference. Brian is the model of consistency and he’s earned everything he’s gotten since he’s been here. Orien is a very good defensive player and I think he’s a complete player with an uncanny ability on the defensive end.” Originally published March 3, 2005 Wade honored on NABC district team February 19, 2005 – Wade, who leads UL in scoring this year with 19.5 points per game, is joined on the honor roll by University of New Orleans rival Bo McCalebb, Brandon Bass of LSU, La. Tech’s Paul Millsap and Southeastern Louisiana’s Nate Lofton. TIRAS WADE NAMED SUN BELT PLAYER OF THE WEEK LAFAYETTE – Tiras Wade drew the attention of many across the nation On Tuesday, the junior from Tampa, Fla., was recognized for his efforts The honor is the first for a Louisiana-Lafayette player this season. Wade scored a career-high 37 points on 13-of-26 shooting in the Ragin’ Wade’s scoring output against the nationally ranked Wolfpack in Raleigh, He followed that performance with his third career double-double – first Wade averaged 27.5 points per game and eight boards per contest last Wade’s touch easy to notice October 17, 2004 LAFAYETTE — Tiras Wade wanted to make up for lost time early Saturday morning. It was only minutes after midnight when Wade touched the ball, 25 seconds into UL Lafayette’s Midnight Madness scrimmage at the Cajundome, and the junior swingman buried a 3-pointer from the left wing. Wade proceeded to score nine of his Red team’s first 12 points, those coming in just over five minutes, and fans were scrambling for rosters to figure out who the guy with the long braids and the No. 1 number on his jersey was. Close followers of the Ragin’ Cajun program knew, since Wade worked out with the squad all of last season while sitting out his transfer year. And new head coach Robert Lee knows what the Tampa, Fla., native can bring to his first UL Lafayette squad. “Tyrus can score,” Lee said after the hour-long after-midnight session, “and we’re going to need him to score.” Wade only had two points the rest of the night, and his Red team saw a 15-point lead vanish in the second half as the Black unit took a 42-36 win. But he was still upbeat about his first on-court activity in front of a crowd in 20 months. “I feel like I’ve been caged up for a year,” Wade said. “It hurt me to sit back and watch the team get into the (NCAA) tournament last year and not be able to help them there. I feel like I’ve been freed up now.” Wade started two years at East Tennessee State, averaging 11.8 as a freshman and a team-leading 16.3 as a sophomore to go with 5.7 rebounds per game. But when ETSU coach Ed DeChellis took the Penn State job, Wade moved south and worked for a year to add muscle to his 190-pound frame. “I’m up to about 215 now,” he said. “The more athletic guys were pushing me around some, so I knew I had to get bigger and stronger.” Wade was a happy guy when Lee was tabbed as the Cajuns’ head coach following a tumultuous summer, one that saw Glynn Cyprien named to the post only to be removed three months later in a résumé scandal. “The assistants always have a different kind of bond with the players,” Wade said, “but he hasn’t changed since he got the job. He’s a great guy, and he’ll make sure that when it’s time, we’ll be ready to go.” LAGNIAPPE: Seven UL Lafayette students — Christine Knapp, Katrice Addison, Jessica Pillette, Aaron Burgin, Brendan Schofield, Trenton Cousin and Lindsey Grist — won a pair of tickets to Saturday night’s New Orleans Hornets-Los Angeles Clippers preseason game in a lottery draw during Midnight Madness activities. All attending students were eligible for the prize provided by the University Program Council. Winners of the pre-scrimmage student basketball skills competitions were Chris Davis on three-point shooting and Montrell Donald in the slam-dunk competition judged by several former Ragin’ Cajun players. ©The Lafayette Daily Advertiser
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