MBB: Louisiana, Southern Miss Set For Thursday SBC Showdown

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LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball team will put its 10-game win streak on the line when it visits Southern Miss in a battle between the Sun Belt Conference co-leaders on Thursday at Reed Green Coliseum.

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[IberiaCajun]

Louisiana enters the game against USM (21-4, 10-2 Sun Belt)
third overall in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring at 80.2 points per game while
leading the league in field goal percentage (.494),
3-point field goal percentage (.399) and
rebounding margin (+6.5).

[IberiaCajun]

Louisiana's current ranking of No. 3 in the CollegeInsider.com Top-25 Mid-Major Poll is its highest since the poll was introduced.
Louisiana and Southern Miss are two of 10 teams nationally to reach the 20-win mark in the 2022-23 season.
• Louisiana enters Thursday's game ranked No. 3 in the CollegeInsider.com Top-25 Mid-Major Poll with Southern Miss ranked No. 6.

[JayWalker]

Going back to the first meeting.

Southern Miss' two best players, Crowley and Haase combined for 23 points

Louisiana's two best players, Brown and Williams, combined for 16 points.

(Pinckney stepped up for USM with 21 points and 13 rebounds.
Garnett (20) and Fulks (17) both had career scoring nights for the Cajuns.)

[60swerethebest]

Really looking fwd to this game. Both teams will be improved from last meet. Maybe for different reasons. Both appear to be at full strength. Big raucous crowd on the road against our soon to be favorite enemy - sorry, rival in a lot of sports.
Geaux Cajuns.

[BeauCajun]

Going back to the first meeting.

Southern Miss' two best players, Crowley and Haase combined for 23 points

Louisiana's two best players, Brown and Williams, combined for 16 points.

(Pinckney stepped up for USM with 21 points and 13 rebounds.
Garnett (20) and Fulks (17) both had career scoring nights for the Cajuns.)

USM fans are claiming their best 2 players were out for that game. Who are they? Or just made up excuse?

[Million$Mullet]

USM fans are claiming their best 2 players were out for that game. Who are they? Or just made up excuse?

It’s bull shat. Go look at the starters and subs from our first game with them then look at their last game with Georgia state. It’s the same people logging minutes. They actually played more people against us than they did against Georgia state

[CajunVic]

. . . only time will tell and it’s almost time . . .

[cajuns80]

USM fans are claiming their best 2 players were out for that game. Who are they? Or just made up excuse?

They were missing a guard in their rotation, but Crowley and Haase are their best players, and he played.

[fanof71]

USM could put Bret Farve in the game, won't help em...UL by 8

[RaginDave]

It’s bull shat. Go look at the starters and subs from our first game with them then look at their last game with Georgia state. It’s the same people logging minutes. They actually played more people against us than they did against Georgia state

Here you go and the starting lineups and minutes from our game vs Ga State on last Saturday night.

Haase--played 37 minutes vs us, he played 26 vs Georgia State
Pinckney--played 34 minutes vs us, he played 35 vs Georgia State
Harris--played 20 minutes vs us, he played 13 vs Georgia State
Arnold--played 30 minutes vs us, he played 26 vs Georgia State
Crowley--played 36 minutes vs us, he played 37 vs Georgia State

The two starting lineups were identical and the minutes were similar, now for the bench.

Ivory played 16 minutes vs us, he played 12 vs Georgia State
Perez played 8 minutes vs us, he played 14 vs Georgia State
Armstrong played 7 minutes vs us, he played 3 minutes vs Georgia State
Morman played 4 minutes vs us, he played 4 minutes vs Georgia State

Again very similar here are the few differences.

Aguirre played 8 minutes vs us, he played none vs Georgia State, he had 1 assist and 1 steal, no points and no rebounds, kind of a non factor.

Alvaraz played 0 minutes vs us, he played 27 vs Georgia State, so that might be one of the ones they were speaking about. He had 9 points, 2 boards and 2 steals. He was 3-9 from the field and 3-8 from the FT line.

Hart played 0 minutes vs us and 4 minutes vs Georgia State, he had 0 points, 2 rebounds and 2 turnovers. He was basically a non factor.

To say these were 2 of their best players is a stretch. Alvarez has only played in 9 games starting 3 of them, he averages 22.2 minutes a game shoots 11% from 3 pt range, shoots 57% from the FT line and only shoots a whopping 30.4% from the fields. He is averaging 5.7 points, 2.3 assists and 1.3 rebounds. He is a fine player, but I would not consider him one of their best.

Hart on the other hand has played in 22 games, starting 0. He averages 7.5 minutes per game, 2.5 points, .3 assists and 2.2 rebounds, while shooting 35% form the field, 13% from 3 point land and 82.4% from the FT line.

[CajunVic]

. . . we got this . . . there is no stopping Bob and the Boys at this stage of the game . . .