The Lady Cajuns have struggled since J. Kelley Hall left for the head job at Cincinnati after winning a single-season team record 25 games in 2006-07 and leading the program to its first NCAA Tournament berth. UL is 11-49 in two years under Rogers, who previously spent four years as an assistant at Mississippi State. The .183 winning percentage is the lowest in the Sun Belt in the past two years.

This season, UL went 3-27 with one of the nation's youngest rosters. That included the team's first 0-18 record in Sun Belt play.

After guards Whitney Dunlap and Bronson Rodgers quit at midseason, UL finished the year with only three players who had previously earned a varsity letter with the team. At the end of the year, the Cajuns had only two upperclassmen - no seniors and two juniors - in addition to five sophomores and seven freshmen.

"I've said all year long that we're not going to make excuses," Rogers said in an interview with the Advertiser. "But sometimes it's going to take some time.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • March 21, 2009