Shawn Long’s gone up bigger players before on the basketball floor, but most were only marginally larger than Louisiana-Lafayette’s 6-foot-11 senior postman.
That changes in a big way Wednesday night. Make that a gigantic way, when the Ragin’ Cajuns take on UC-Irvine in the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com tournament.
The biggest thing in college basketball — literally — will hit the Cajundome floor for the 7:15 p.m. tipoff, with 7-foot-6 junior center Mamadou Ndiaye part of what could be the country’s biggest basketball team, the NBA included.
“They’re very big, and they’re very experienced,” Cajuns coach Bob Marlin said of the Anteaters (26-9), the No.