CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The good news is that UL's Tuesday men's basketball game didn't affect the Ragin' Cajuns' standing in the Sun Belt Conference.
That's the only good news.
The Cajuns found themselves behind by 20 points in the game's first 11 minutes and never got much closer in falling to Charlotte 80-56 in their final non-conference game of the season.
The host 49ers (12-12) gunned in 13 three-pointers, three of them in the final seven minutes when Charlotte opened up its biggest leads of the game. But it didn't take long for the 49ers to build that lead, taking a double-figure margin in the game's first four minutes on Leemire Goldwire's three-pointer.
"We had talked before the game that the first 10 minutes were key," said Cajun coach Robert Lee. "When you get behind a team like Charlotte that's so athletic on the perimeter, you don't have much chance to recover."