Elfrid Payton hit two free throws to get the Cajuns' within one point and then hit the game-winner with just under six seconds remaining to give Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns a come from behind 58-57 win over Florida Atlantic Saturday night in the Cajundome...
Louisiana 72, Florida Atlantic 64
FAU Arena, Boca Raton, FL
February 12, 2011
Bob Marlin's first season as coach of Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns didn't begin quite as planned.
The Cajuns stumbled to a 3-14 record, 1-5 in the Sun Belt Conference, but experienced an amazing turnaround in the second half of the season...
The Sun Belt Conference recently announced they were adding the University of Texas-Arlington to their membership, effective July 1, 2013.
Then, they made another announcement.
"No further expansion is planned at this time."
If Karl Benson had been in the room, I'd have hugged him...
Earlier this week the Sun Belt coaches voted Louisiana-Monroe's Jeremy Sy as the league's Player of the Year.
Today, the ULM shortstop showed why.
Sy lifted a two run walkoff homer to end a 13 inning marathon as the 5th seeded Warhawks knocked off #1 seed Florida Atlantic in the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament...
An errant pickoff throw in the bottom of the ninth inning allowed Nathan Pittman to score the winning run from second base, as top-seeded Florida Atlantic edged #8 seed Western Kentucky 4-3 to wrap up the first day of play at the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament at Bowling Green ballpark in Bowling Green, KY...
Bracket "B" for the Sun Belt Conference Tournament features teams seeded 2 ,3 ,6 and 7. The round robin bracket games will begin Wednesday at Bowling Green Ballpark in Bowling Green, KY. For a preview of Bracket "A' featuring the 1, 4, 5 and 8 seeds, click here.
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It shouldn't have come as a surprise, but after finishing tenth in the Sun Belt Conference this season, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns were shut out of the All-Conference team released Tuesday by the league.
In a mild surprise, Louisiana-Monroe's Jeremy Sy was named the league's Player of the Year, while Arkansas State's Jacob Lee was named the Pitcher of the Year...
It hasn't been a great year for the Sun Belt Conference. In fact, this year the Sun Belt will be a one-bid league for the first time in more than twenty years. But, someone is going to get the automatic bid and play i...
Because there are some teams in this league who are ignored by the media (if you ever find someone from the Little Rock paper covering UALR in person, let me know) we don't get to vote on the All-Conference team. That's too bad. Because, more often than not, my team looks better than the one that the league releases.
This ...
Can this UL football team handle success?
That's the biggest question in my mind this week as Louisiana gets ready to take on the Florida Atlantic Owls tomorrow night at Cajun Field (5:35 airtime on the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Radio Network...