Dion Brown was a very, very good basketball player during his four-year career with Louisiana from 1980-84.

He's also good at passing down a gene pool of athletic ability, knowledge of the game he loved, and fatherly guidance, since his son Jordan is one of the nation's elite players and the leader of Sun Belt Conference tournament champion UL's squad entering Thursday's first round of the NCAA Tournament.

And, apparently, he's a prophet.

The elder Brown, who now lives with wife Yolanda in California, was in Acadiana in December to attend Jordan's graduation. At that December ceremony, inside the Cajundome where the 6-foot-11 Jordan has done many memorable things over the past two years, he stood out as undoubtedly the tallest among the 1,214 graduates.

At the time, Dion predicted great things for this year's edition of the Cajuns … something similar to what he experienced during the final three years of his collegiate career.

"I told my son that we're going to be there for the conference tournament in Pensacola, and then we're going to follow them to the NCAA Tournament," the elder Brown said during that December trip. "I believe in this team, and I know what Jordan can do."