Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball Notebook - Feb. 18, 2018

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The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Basketball Report for games through February 18, 2018.

Louisiana clinched a first-round bye in next month's Sun Belt Conference Tournament in New Orleans after recording a 100-79 win over defending SBC regular-season champion UT Arlington on Saturday …

The win helped Louisiana increase its SBC lead to three games over second-place Georgia State with four game remaining …

The Ragin' Cajuns can clinch a share of its first SBC regular-season title since 1999-2000 with a win at Troy on Thursday …

Louisiana can clinch the outright SBC title on Thursday with a win at Troy and a loss by Georgia State at Texas State …

the win against UTA improved Bob Marlin's career record to 499-274 in his 25th season as a head coach that includes stops at Pensacola Junior College (123-35), Sam Houston State (225-131) and Louisiana (151-108) …

Marlin's Division I record improves to 376-239 in 20 seasons … Louisiana improved its home record to 13-0, marking the third time in school history in reach the mark set in both 1972-73 (under head coach Beryl Shipley) and 1977-78 (under coach Jim Hatfield) …

Louisiana's 13-0 start at the Cajundome is the best-ever start since moving into the facility in 1985 …

the 100 points scored against UT Arlington marked the fifth 100-point performance this season for the Ragin' Cajuns and their second in the past three games …

the Ragin' Cajuns eclipsed the 100-point mark this season in games against – Louisiana College (113), Savannah State (115), at Nicholls State (105), at Georgia Southern (102) and UTA (100) …

during Bob Marlin's tenure at Louisiana, the Ragin' Cajuns have recorded 100 points or more in 16 games (16-0), tying them for ninth-best among all Division I programs (VMI leads with 23) …

Louisiana will close out the regular-season at home with games against Arkansas State (March 1) and Little Rock (March 3) …

Louisiana's 16-game homecourt win streak dating back to last season is tied with Rhode Island for the third-longest among Division I programs (behind South Dakota State [19] and Texas Tech [17])…

Louisiana, Montana and Stephen F. Austin are the only schools nationally (through games of Feb. 17) that have won eight or more games on the road and are undefeated at home …

under Bob Marlin, Louisiana is 55-30 overall in games played in February and March …

since the 2013-14 season when Louisiana last reached the NCAA Tournament, the Ragin' Cajuns have recorded 88 games with 80 or more points scored - the fifth-most by any Division I school during that span and trailing North Carolina (103), BYU (98), Duke (93) and Gonzaga (92) …

since the 2013-14 season, Louisiana's 108 wins are the most of any Sun Belt Conference school, ahead of Georgia State (105), UTA (98) and Little Rock (79) …

Bryce Washington notched his 11th double-double of the season – and 36th of his career – with 19 points and 10 rebounds in Thursday's win over Texas State …

the 6-foot-6 New Orleans native is fifth among active NCAA players in rebounds (1,033), tied for fifth in career double-doubles (36), tied for 26th in rebound average (8.0), tied for 34th in games played (129) and 40th in career field goal percentage (.573) …

Louisiana's 14 made 3-pointers against UTA marked the eighth time this season with 12 or more makes …

the Ragin' Cajuns sank a school-record 16 3-pointers earlier this season against Savannah State …

against the Mavs, the Ragin' Cajuns converted on 20 of 21 free throws, with its 95.2 conversion percentage the third time to eclipse the 90-percent mark this season …

Louisiana made 22 of 23 free throws (95.7 percent) at Clemson and was 18-for-19 (94.7 percent) on Thursday against Texas State … during the past two games, the Ragin' Cajuns are 38-for-40 (95.0 percent) from the free throw line.
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Some interesting stats in this report. Those include being ninth in the country in 100 point games in Coach Marlin's tenure, fifth in the country in 80 point games since 2014, being third in the country in a home winning streak, and lots of notes about Bryce Washington's status in rebounds and double doubles. These are the highlights if you don't have time to read the entire article. If you do have the time, it is worth it.

*Louisiana, Montana and Stephen F. Austin are the only schools nationally (through games of Feb. 17) that have won eight or more games on the road and are undefeated at home …

*Louisiana's 13-0 start at the Cajundome is the best-ever start since moving into the facility in 1985 …

*Louisiana's 14 made 3-pointers against UTA marked the eighth time this season with 12 or more makes …

The Cajuns have some players that can make 3 point shots...true freshman Cedric Russell is one of them. He was 4 of 7 Saturday night.