Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball
| Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball |
| University |
University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| First season |
1911-1912 |
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| Conference |
Sun Belt |
| Location |
Lafayette, LA |
| Head coach |
Bob Marlin (1st year) |
| Arena |
Cajundome
(Capacity: 11,550) |
| Nickname |
Ragin' Cajuns |
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| Colors |
Vermilion and White
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| Uniforms |
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| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 |
| 1992 |
| NCAA Tournament appearances |
| 1982, 1983, 1992, 1994, 2000 |
| Conference tournament champions |
| 1982, 1992, 1994, 2000 |
| Conference regular season champions |
| 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1992 |
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 second season as head coach.
History
Conference affiliations
NCAA Sanctions
Death Penalty
Southwestern Louisiana was found guilty of numerous violations after the 1972-73 season, including academic fraud, recruiting violations and improper financial assistance. The most serious violations involved five instances where players were allowed to compete despite having high school GPAs that predicted a college GPA lower than the NCAA's minimum of 1.6 at the time. On one occasion, an assistant coach forged the principal's signature on a recruit's high school transcript. The NCAA responded by barring the Ragin' Cajuns from competing in the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons.[1]
Major violations
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. 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.[2]
Home venues
Earl K. Long Gymnasium
Blackham Coliseum
Cajundome
References
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† will join the conference for football in 2013
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