The Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school competes in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and play home games at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. Bob Marlin is entering his fourth season as head coach.
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| University | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ||
| First season | 1911–1912 | ||
| Conference | Sun Belt | ||
| Location | Lafayette, LA | ||
| Head coach | Bob Marlin (3rd year) | ||
| Arena | Cajundome (Capacity: 11,550) |
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| Nickname | Ragin' Cajuns | ||
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Vermilion and White |
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| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1982, 1983, 1992, 1994, 2000 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| Southland: 1982 Sun Belt: 1992, 1994, 2000 |
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| Conference regular season champions | |||
| Gulf States: 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 Southland: 1977, 1982 Sun Belt: 1992 |
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| Conference division season champions | |||
| Sun Belt West: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2011[1] | |||
- For information on all University of Louisiana at Lafayette sports, see Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns
The Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school competes in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and play home games at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. Bob Marlin is entering his fourth season as head coach.
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History [edit]
Conference affiliations [edit]
- 1914–1925: Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- 1925–1941: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- 1941–1947: Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference
- 1947–1971: Gulf States Conference
- 1971–1982: Southland Conference
- 1982–1987: Independent
- 1987–1991: American South Conference
- 1991–present: Sun Belt Conference
NCAA sanctions [edit]
Infractions [edit]
In 1968, Southwestern Louisiana was placed on two years' probation and barred from postseason play during that time for recruiting violations and for student-athletes receiving financial assistance from an outside organization.[2]
Death penalty [edit]
In August 1973, Louisiana-Lafayette--then known as Southwestern Louisiana--became only the second school to receive the so-called "death penalty" from the NCAA. The basketball team was found guilty of over 120 violations. Most of them involved small cash payments to players, letting players borrow coaches' and boosters' cars, letting players use university credit cards to buy gas and buying clothes and other objects for players. However, the most severe violations involved massive academic fraud. In the most egregious case, an assistant coach altered a recruit's high school transcript and forged the principal's signature. Several boosters arranged for surrogates to take college entrance exams for prospective recruits. The NCAA Council found the violations so egregious that it wanted to throw Southwestern Louisiana out of the NCAA altogether. It settled for scrubbing the Ragin' Cajuns' 1972 and 1973 NCAA Tournament appearances from the books and canceling the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons.[3][4]
Major violations [edit]
In 2007 the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions penalized the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for major violations in the men's basketball program. The violations included ineligible participation by a men's basketball student-athlete (Orien Greene). These infractions resulted in the committee finding that the institution failed to monitor its athletics program. Penalties for the violations included placing the university on two years of probation, a vacation of records and forfeiture of championship revenue, among other sanctions. The Committee on Infractions found that a men's basketball student-athlete relied on correspondence courses taken through another institution to meet his percentage-of-degree and grade-point average requirements in order to maintain satisfactory progress for eligibility during the 2004 spring semester and 2004–05 academic year. NCAA rules stipulate that student-athletes cannot use correspondence courses taken from another institution to meet these requirements. The 15 hours of correspondence work were used to certify the student-athlete as eligible for 2004–05 and he competed throughout the season, which included an NCAA tournament game. The report also notes that the school's compliance coordinator at the time, as well as the director of academic services and registrar, all "failed to catch the obvious error." "The committee is dismayed that the institution failed to comply with a simple, unambiguous bylaw and, as a consequence, allowed a star student-athlete to compete for a full season and half of another," the report states.[5]
Postseason [edit]
NCAA Division I Tournament results [edit]
Louisiana–Lafayette has officially appeared in five NCAA Division I Tournaments, although they have appeared in nine total. Four appearances have been vacated. In 1972, they became the first school to make the tournament in their first year of eligibility, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen. They repeated this feat in 1973. However, both of these appearances were scrubbed from the books as a result of the 1973 infractions case. Louisiana–Lafayette participated in the 2004 and 2005 NCAA tournaments, but both appearances were vacated due to major violations involving Orien Greene. Their official combined record is 1–5. All appearances prior to 2000 were when the school was still named Southwestern Louisiana.
| Year | Round | Opponent | Result |
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| 1972* | First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game |
Marshall Louisville Texas |
W 112–101 L 57–61 W 100–70 |
| 1973* | First Round Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place Game |
Houston Kansas State South Carolina |
W 102–89 L 63–66 L 85–90 |
| 1982 | First Round | Tennessee | L 57–61 |
| 1983 | First Round | Rutgers | L 53–60 |
| 1992 | First Round Second Round |
Oklahoma New Mexico State |
W 87–83 L 73–81 |
| 1994 | First Round | Marquette | L 59–81 |
| 2000 | First Round | Tennessee | L 58–63 |
| 2004* | First Round | NC State | L 52–61 |
| 2005* | First Round | Louisville | L 62–68 |
* appearance and records vacated
NCAA Division II Tournament results [edit]
Louisiana–Lafayette has officially have never appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament. Their appearance in the 1971 tournament and their records was vacated due to the same rules vialations that stripped them of their 1972 and 1973 Division I Tournament results.
| Year | Round | Opponent | Result/Score |
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| 1971* | Regional Semifinals Regional Finals Elite Eight Final Four National 3rd Place Game |
New Orleans Tennessee State Assumption Evansville Kentucky Wesleyan |
W 113–107 W 86–82 W 110–99 L 74–93 W 105–83 |
* appearance and records vacated
NAIA Tournament results [edit]
Louisiana–Lafayette has appeared in two NAIA Tournaments. Their combined record is 3–2.
| Year | Round | Opponent | Result/Score |
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| 1965 | First Round Second Round |
Colorado State-Pueblo Oklahoma Baptist |
W 66–59 L 82–95 |
| 1967 | First Round Second Round Quarterfinals |
Findlay Central Michigan Oklahoma Baptist |
W 110–73 W 70–62 L 65–66 |
NIT results [edit]
Louisiana–Lafayette has appeared in five National Invitation Tournaments. Their combined record is 6–6. All appearances prior to 2002 were when the school was still named Southwestern Louisiana.
| Year | Round | Opponent | Result |
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| 1980 | First Round Second Round Quarterfinals |
UAB Texas Minnesota |
W 74–72 W 77–76 L 73–94 |
| 1984 | First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Third Place Game |
Utah State Weber State Santa Clara Notre Dame Virginia Tech |
W 94–92 W 74–72 W 97–76 L 59–65 L 70–71 |
| 1985 | First Round Second Round |
Florida Tennessee |
W 65–64 L 72–73 |
| 2002 | Opening Round | Louisiana Tech | L 63–83 |
| 2003 | First Round | UAB | L 80–82 |
CIT results [edit]
Louisiana–Lafayette has appeared in one CollegeInsider.com Tournament. Their record is 0–1.
| Year | Round | Opponent | Result |
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| 2012 | First Round | Rice | L 63–68 |
Home venues [edit]
Earl K. Long Gymnasium [edit]
Blackham Coliseum [edit]
Cajundome [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Sun Belt All-Time Standings". 2011-12 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Media Guide. Sun Belt Conference. pp. 93–95. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ^ 1968 USL infractions report
- ^ 1973 USL infraction report
- ^ Bradley, John Ed. "An Accidental Hero: Beryl Shipley, 1926-2011." Sports Illustrated, 2011-05-02.
- ^ http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/news_2007_0419_ncaa_louisiana_lafayette.html
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