University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Tuesday, November 22
Dallas, Texas
7:30 p.m.
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
at
SMU
Louisiana Travels To Metroplex For Hardwood Battle at SMU
11/21/2022 4:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Third overall meeting between the schools; first since 1986-87 season
LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball team makes its first true road test of the 2022-23 season when it heads to the Lone Star State to face American Athletic Conference member SMU on Tuesday at Moody Coliseum.
Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The game can be heard in the Lafayette area on KPEL-FM 96.5 and worldwide on the Varsity Network. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
Coming off a come-from-behind 94-88 victory over in-state rival Louisiana Tech last Thursday, Louisiana (4-0) equaled its best start since the 1989-90 season when the Ragin' Cajuns reeled off eight straight wins to open the season.
Terence Lewis II scored 23 points and grabbed a career-high tying 12 rebounds to lead five players in double figures and helping Louisiana to its sixth win over its in-state rival in the last 10 meetings.
Jordan Brown (18.8), Lewis (16.0), Greg Williams, Jr. (11.3) and Kentrell Garnett (10.0) are the top scorers for Louisiana with Lewis pulling down a team-best 10.5 rebounds per game. Themus Fulks (5.5 assists), Michael Thomas (3.0) and Williams (2.3) are tops on the team in assists for Louisiana with Brown blocking a team-high 1.3 shots per game.
SMU (2-2), under first-year coach Rob Lanier, defeated Evansville in its last game, 55-47, to snap a two-game losing streak. The Mustangs opened the season with a 77-60 win over Division I newcomer Texas A&M-Commerce before dropping games to Dayton and New Mexico.
GAME 5 PREVIEW – Louisiana (4-0) at SMU (2-2)
Date / Time: November 22, 2022 / 7:30 p.m.
Site: Dallas, Texas
Arena: Moody Coliseum (7,000)
RADIO/TV
TV: ESPN+
Talent: John Liddle (pxp), Stephen Howard (color)
Radio: KPEL-FM 96.5 / The Varsity Network
Talent: Jay Walker (pxp)
LIVE STATS/SOCIAL MEDIA
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsMBB | #GeauxCajuns
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Series tied, 1-1
In Lafayette: Louisiana leads, 1-0
In Dallas: SMU leads, 1-0
Current Streak: SMU +1
Last Meeting: SMU, 65-52 (2/7/87 at Dallas)
THE COACHES
LOUISIANA
Head Coach: Bob Marlin (Mississippi State, 1981)
Record at Louisiana: 225-167 (13th season); Division I Record: 450-298 (25th season);
Career Record: 573-333 (30th season)
SMU
Head Coach: Rob Lanier (St. Bonaventure, 1990)
Record at SMU: 2-2 (first season), Career Record: 113-102 (eighth season)
STORY LINES
• Louisiana makes its first visit to Moody Coliseum since the 1986-87 season to face SMU in a non-conference contest on Tuesday.
• The meeting with the Mustangs is the third all-time between the schools with each team defending its home court.
• Louisiana's 4-0 record equals its best four-game start since opening with eight straight wins in 1989-90.
• In last week's 94-88 win over in-state rival Louisiana Tech, head coach Bob Marlin earned his 450th career win at the Division I level in 25 seasons. His current record at the Division I level is 450-298 (.602) with 225 wins coming at both Sam Houston and Louisiana.
• With 450 wins at the Division I level, head coach Bob Marlin is 33rd among active coaches in career wins.
• The Ragin' Cajuns are one of two unbeaten teams remaining in the Sun Belt Conference and 52 nationally (through games of Nov. 20).
• The game pits Louisiana's Bob Marlin and SMU's Rob Lanier, who spent the past three seasons at SBC rival Georgia State.
• SMU assistant coach Josten Crow played for Marlin at Sam Houston and was a member of the basketball staff at Louisiana from 2011-12 (graduate assistant), 2015-21 (Director of Student-Athlete Development/Assistant Coach).
QUICK HITS
• Louisiana is 14th nationally in scoring offense averaging 89.0 points per game.
• Two players - Vinny Sigona (Plano) and Chancellor White (Richmond) - hail from the state of Texas.
• Louisiana is ranked eighth in the CollegeInsider.com Top-25 Mid Major Poll.
• The Ragin' Cajuns lead the Sun Belt Conference in free throws attempted (24.2) and free throws made (18.0) per game.
• Louisiana was picked as the preseason favorite in a vote by the league's head coaches.
• The Ragin' Cajuns reached the SBC Championship Game for the first time since winning the league's automatic berth in 2014. Louisiana fell to Rob Lanier's Georgia State squad in the finals in Pensacola, Fla.
• Louisiana has made at least one 3-pointer in 549 consecutive games dating back to the 2005 season.
LOUISIANA MADE, LOUISIANA PROUD
• Eight players on the 2022-23 roster hail from within the Bayou State with three coming from Lafayette Parish.
• Greg Williams, Jr., and Jalen Dalcourt each hail from the Hub City with Joe Charles coming from nearby Carencro.
• The hometowns of returning players Michael Thomas (Lake Charles), Kobe Julien (Baton Rouge) and Kentrell Garnett (Donaldsonville) are within an hour drive along Interstate-10.
• Two newcomers, Kyran Ratliff and Isaiah Crawford, each come from New Orleans - just over a two-hour drive from Lafayette.
NEW FACES ON THE COURT
• Six members of the 14 players on the 2022-23 roster are first-year players.
• Four players - Chancellor White, Kyran Ratliff, Vinny Sigona and walk-on Isaiah Crawford - are freshmen newcomers for the Ragin' Cajuns with Themus Fulks and Terence Lewis II bringing Division I experience to the roster.
NEW FACES ON THE BENCH
• With new faces on the court, there are also new faces on the bench with the addition of a pair of first-year assistants.
• Assistant coaches Donovan Kates and Casey Perrin joined the Ragin' Cajuns program since the end of the 2021-22 season.
NEW FACES IN THE SUN BELT
• Due to the recent conference realignment, the Sun Belt Conference lost a pair of teams (UT Arlington and Little Rock) but gained four fresh faces beginning in the 2022-23 season.
• New to the SBC includes James Madison (Colonial Athletic), Marshall (Conference USA), Old Dominion (Conference USA) and Southern Miss (Conference USA).
WHY SO MOODY?
• Louisiana's trip to Dallas to face SMU is the first of two contests during the 2022-23 season where the facility name begins with Moody.
• The Ragin' Cajuns will travel to face nationally-ranked Texas on Dec. 21 in the Longhorns' new $375 million Moody Center in Austin.
THE VOICE OF THE RAGIN' CAJUNS
• Jay Walker is in his 31st season as the broadcast voice of Louisiana Men's Basketball. Walker joined the Ragin' Cajuns Sports Network in the fall of 1992 and served as a color commentator before assuming play-by-play duties.
• In July of 2021, Walker was named Director of Broadcasting for Ragin' Cajuns Sports Properties.
Fans are encouraged to stay engaged with the Ragin' Cajuns by downloading the #GeauxCajuns app. Click here for iOS/Apple platforms and here for Android platforms.
For the latest on Louisiana Men's Basketball, stay tuned to RaginCajuns.com and follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (RaginCajunsMBB).
Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The game can be heard in the Lafayette area on KPEL-FM 96.5 and worldwide on the Varsity Network. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with live stats available at CajunStats.com.
Coming off a come-from-behind 94-88 victory over in-state rival Louisiana Tech last Thursday, Louisiana (4-0) equaled its best start since the 1989-90 season when the Ragin' Cajuns reeled off eight straight wins to open the season.
Terence Lewis II scored 23 points and grabbed a career-high tying 12 rebounds to lead five players in double figures and helping Louisiana to its sixth win over its in-state rival in the last 10 meetings.
Jordan Brown (18.8), Lewis (16.0), Greg Williams, Jr. (11.3) and Kentrell Garnett (10.0) are the top scorers for Louisiana with Lewis pulling down a team-best 10.5 rebounds per game. Themus Fulks (5.5 assists), Michael Thomas (3.0) and Williams (2.3) are tops on the team in assists for Louisiana with Brown blocking a team-high 1.3 shots per game.
SMU (2-2), under first-year coach Rob Lanier, defeated Evansville in its last game, 55-47, to snap a two-game losing streak. The Mustangs opened the season with a 77-60 win over Division I newcomer Texas A&M-Commerce before dropping games to Dayton and New Mexico.
GAME 5 PREVIEW – Louisiana (4-0) at SMU (2-2)
Date / Time: November 22, 2022 / 7:30 p.m.
Site: Dallas, Texas
Arena: Moody Coliseum (7,000)
RADIO/TV
TV: ESPN+
Talent: John Liddle (pxp), Stephen Howard (color)
Radio: KPEL-FM 96.5 / The Varsity Network
Talent: Jay Walker (pxp)
LIVE STATS/SOCIAL MEDIA
Live Stats: CajunStats.com
Twitter Updates: @RaginCajunsMBB | #GeauxCajuns
SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Series tied, 1-1
In Lafayette: Louisiana leads, 1-0
In Dallas: SMU leads, 1-0
Current Streak: SMU +1
Last Meeting: SMU, 65-52 (2/7/87 at Dallas)
THE COACHES
LOUISIANA
Head Coach: Bob Marlin (Mississippi State, 1981)
Record at Louisiana: 225-167 (13th season); Division I Record: 450-298 (25th season);
Career Record: 573-333 (30th season)
SMU
Head Coach: Rob Lanier (St. Bonaventure, 1990)
Record at SMU: 2-2 (first season), Career Record: 113-102 (eighth season)
STORY LINES
• Louisiana makes its first visit to Moody Coliseum since the 1986-87 season to face SMU in a non-conference contest on Tuesday.
• The meeting with the Mustangs is the third all-time between the schools with each team defending its home court.
• Louisiana's 4-0 record equals its best four-game start since opening with eight straight wins in 1989-90.
• In last week's 94-88 win over in-state rival Louisiana Tech, head coach Bob Marlin earned his 450th career win at the Division I level in 25 seasons. His current record at the Division I level is 450-298 (.602) with 225 wins coming at both Sam Houston and Louisiana.
• With 450 wins at the Division I level, head coach Bob Marlin is 33rd among active coaches in career wins.
• The Ragin' Cajuns are one of two unbeaten teams remaining in the Sun Belt Conference and 52 nationally (through games of Nov. 20).
• The game pits Louisiana's Bob Marlin and SMU's Rob Lanier, who spent the past three seasons at SBC rival Georgia State.
• SMU assistant coach Josten Crow played for Marlin at Sam Houston and was a member of the basketball staff at Louisiana from 2011-12 (graduate assistant), 2015-21 (Director of Student-Athlete Development/Assistant Coach).
QUICK HITS
• Louisiana is 14th nationally in scoring offense averaging 89.0 points per game.
• Two players - Vinny Sigona (Plano) and Chancellor White (Richmond) - hail from the state of Texas.
• Louisiana is ranked eighth in the CollegeInsider.com Top-25 Mid Major Poll.
• The Ragin' Cajuns lead the Sun Belt Conference in free throws attempted (24.2) and free throws made (18.0) per game.
• Louisiana was picked as the preseason favorite in a vote by the league's head coaches.
• The Ragin' Cajuns reached the SBC Championship Game for the first time since winning the league's automatic berth in 2014. Louisiana fell to Rob Lanier's Georgia State squad in the finals in Pensacola, Fla.
• Louisiana has made at least one 3-pointer in 549 consecutive games dating back to the 2005 season.
LOUISIANA MADE, LOUISIANA PROUD
• Eight players on the 2022-23 roster hail from within the Bayou State with three coming from Lafayette Parish.
• Greg Williams, Jr., and Jalen Dalcourt each hail from the Hub City with Joe Charles coming from nearby Carencro.
• The hometowns of returning players Michael Thomas (Lake Charles), Kobe Julien (Baton Rouge) and Kentrell Garnett (Donaldsonville) are within an hour drive along Interstate-10.
• Two newcomers, Kyran Ratliff and Isaiah Crawford, each come from New Orleans - just over a two-hour drive from Lafayette.
NEW FACES ON THE COURT
• Six members of the 14 players on the 2022-23 roster are first-year players.
• Four players - Chancellor White, Kyran Ratliff, Vinny Sigona and walk-on Isaiah Crawford - are freshmen newcomers for the Ragin' Cajuns with Themus Fulks and Terence Lewis II bringing Division I experience to the roster.
NEW FACES ON THE BENCH
• With new faces on the court, there are also new faces on the bench with the addition of a pair of first-year assistants.
• Assistant coaches Donovan Kates and Casey Perrin joined the Ragin' Cajuns program since the end of the 2021-22 season.
NEW FACES IN THE SUN BELT
• Due to the recent conference realignment, the Sun Belt Conference lost a pair of teams (UT Arlington and Little Rock) but gained four fresh faces beginning in the 2022-23 season.
• New to the SBC includes James Madison (Colonial Athletic), Marshall (Conference USA), Old Dominion (Conference USA) and Southern Miss (Conference USA).
WHY SO MOODY?
• Louisiana's trip to Dallas to face SMU is the first of two contests during the 2022-23 season where the facility name begins with Moody.
• The Ragin' Cajuns will travel to face nationally-ranked Texas on Dec. 21 in the Longhorns' new $375 million Moody Center in Austin.
THE VOICE OF THE RAGIN' CAJUNS
• Jay Walker is in his 31st season as the broadcast voice of Louisiana Men's Basketball. Walker joined the Ragin' Cajuns Sports Network in the fall of 1992 and served as a color commentator before assuming play-by-play duties.
• In July of 2021, Walker was named Director of Broadcasting for Ragin' Cajuns Sports Properties.
Fans are encouraged to stay engaged with the Ragin' Cajuns by downloading the #GeauxCajuns app. Click here for iOS/Apple platforms and here for Android platforms.
For the latest on Louisiana Men's Basketball, stay tuned to RaginCajuns.com and follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (RaginCajunsMBB).
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