UL (8-14, 5-5 Sun Belt) leads the all-time series with FIU (9-14, 4-7 SB), 14-5, after claiming an 83-63 win last season at the Cajundome. The Cajuns have won the last three regular season meetings. Thursday’s game marks the first time UL will play at FIU since 2007-08. The last time the Cajuns played at U.S. Century Bank Arena, they won 72-62.
The Cajuns will remain in the Sunshine State to face Florida Atlantic University Saturday.
After losing 15 straight games on the road, the Cajuns broke the road-game curse Jan. 30 when they defeated South Alabama. And on Saturday, they gave Cajun fans one of the biggest nail-biting games of the season, defeating Arkansas-Little Rock 67-66 in the final seconds at the Cajundome.
The streak has put the Cajuns back in contention for the Sun Belt West Division title, trailing Denver and Arkansas State. Other streak stats:
•UL is averaging 82.8 ppg while holding opponents to 72.2 ppg - a +10.6 scoring margin. •The Cajuns are shooting .483 from the floor (143-296) in the last five games and limiting the opposition to .410 (125-305). •From the charity stripe, UL is knocking down .706 of its attempts (101-143). •On the glass, the Cajuns are out-rebounding teams 40.2 to 34.8 (+5.4 margin). •Three players are averaging double-figure points, two of which are averaging a double-double over the streak. J.J. Thomas leads with 17.8 ppg and 10.0 rpg, La’Ryan Gary is averaging 13.8 ppg and Travis Bureau is chipping in 12.8 ppg and 10.8 rpg.
Catch tonight’s game on KPEL 1420 AM/ KHXT 107.9 FM. View live stats/video at www.ragincajuns.com.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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