While most coaches around the country play a scrimmage and then an exhibition game and then the regular season opener, UL basketball coach Garry Brodhead elects to go a different route.

He wants his youthful Ragin’ Cajun squad to jump right into the fire as soon as possible. So UL will play its first two exhibition games at 7 tonight when the Cajuns host Loyola of New Orleans at Earl K. Long Gym on the UL campus.