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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Nicholls cruises to victory over SUNO on record night
Head Coach DoBee Plaisance notched her 300th career victory, while senior guard Tykeria Williams became the 16th player in team history to surpass 1,000 points in a career.
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Jalen Johnson scored 18 points to lead four players in double figures and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Men’s Basketball team capitalized on a pair of first-half runs to earn an 81-62 victory over Detroit Mercy.
view moreMcClanahan, Colonels overpower UMBC in Jamaica Classic finale
Fueled by a season-high 26-point showing from Dexter McClanahan, the Nicholls State University men’s basketball program (3-4, 0-0 Southland) orchestrated a dominant offensive performance in Sunday night’s non-conference clash against UMBC (4-3, 0-0 America East), ousting the Retrievers.
view moreAlabama defeats Tulane, 66-56
The Tulane University women’s basketball team fell to Alabama, 66-56, Sunday afternoon at Avron B. Fogelman in Devlin Fieldhouse.
view moreCareer-high 27 from Williams fuels LSU past Rhode Island in Jamaica, 96-83
A strong 40-minute performance propelled the LSU Men’s Basketball team to a 96-83 victory over Rhode Island in the final game of the Jersey Mikes Jamaica Classic on Sunday.
view moreSoutheastern closes road trip with 65-52 victory over ULM
Morgan Carrier led three Lady Lions in double figures, as Southeastern Louisiana snapped a four-game losing streak with a 65-52 road victory over ULM in nonconference action Sunday afternoon in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
view moreTulane closes out Utah, 65-61
The Tulane men’s basketball team scored the final 10 points of the game and held Utah scoreless for the final 4:36 to finish off a 65-61 win in the fifth-place game at the 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational on Sunday at the HTC Center.
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Xavier University of Louisiana produced five double-figure scorers and set a school record for 3-point accuracy Saturday in an 80-65 men’s basketball victory against Huston-Tillotson.
view moreLate shooting woes doom Lions at Austin Peay in 81-60 defeat
Austin Peay State finished the game on a 30-2 run to rally past the Southeastern Louisiana men’s basketball team, 81-60, Saturday night at the Dunn Center.
view moreIrons, Pierce jump-start Nuggets to complete sweep of Lady Rams
AUSTIN, Texas — Abryhia Irons and Nahrie Pierce combined for 21 first-half points Friday to lead Xavier University of Louisiana in a 69-65 women’s basketball victory against Huston-Tillotson.
The Gold Nuggets (7-4) completed a two-game regular-season sweep of the Lady Rams (3-3), who lost 69-67 at XULA Nov. 11.
Irons and Pierce were a combined 8-of-9 from the floor and 5-of-6 from the line — 11 points for Irons, 10 for Pierce — to lead the Gold Nuggets to a 41-26 halftime advantage. Huston-Tillotson rallied to tie the score at 52 on a Daizja Plummer 3-pointer at 2:36 of the third quarter, but Maya Trench answered with six points in an 8-1 run that put XULA ahead to stay.
Irons, a freshman, finished with 16 points, a game-high three steals and a game- and career-high nine rebounds. Nina German scored 12 points, and Pierce and Essence Wells scored 10 apiece.
Traeli Calhoun scored 18 points and Kayla Barber 17 for Huston-Tillotson.
XULA’s traditional Thanksgiving tournament will not be played this season. Next for the Gold Nuggets will be a 2 p.m. visit Nov. 30 to William Carey in Hattiesburg, Miss.