LOUISIANA La. — It seems logical that the best team in the Sun Belt Conference should earn Player of the Week acclaim more than once during a season.

Louisiana, which is three games ahead of any team in the Western or Eastern Divisions, has now collected three of those individual honors.

It’s fitting that the Cajuns have now gone back-to-back in that area, since they’ve won seven straight games and nine of their last 10.

And it’s also fitting that this week’s honoree, senior guard Laurie Bridges, is the third different Cajun on the list, joining Antoine Landry (Jan. 5) and Brian Hamilton (last week).

“It couldn’t come to a more deserving guy,” coach Jessie Evans said. “He worked extremely hard in the offseason and works extremely hard in practice. He’s practicing and playing like a senior.”

Bridges came up big when the Cajuns handed Western Division hopefuls North Texas and Denver demoralizing losses last week.

He registered his first career double-double in the 94-81 victory over UNT with 13 points and 13 rebounds, then came back with a second one two days later in the 94-74 domination of Denver, grabbing 14 rebounds to go with 12 points.

The rest of the story

Bruce Brown
bbrown@theadvertiser.com