My goodness, 2020 was a roller coaster. But for Louisiana Athletics, one has to smile when you look back at everything the university achieved.
When the 2020 spring program was canceled, Louisiana softball (18-6) was a person of the best in the country with 5 wins above prime-10 groups, like a 2-1 victory over LSU at Lamson Park. Cajuns baseball was in the midst of a transformation as the Matt Deggs era commenced. Louisiana had gained 6 of its past 7 games.
On the hardwood, Bob Marlins’ men’s basketball staff would not overlook 2020, while the get started of the new period is off to easy begin. But his counterpart, Garry Brodhead, will lengthy marvel “what if” after the Cajuns girls ended up scheduled to participate in a conference semifinal video game when the year ended.
Soon after a prolonged summer time absent from campus the teams returned and profitable was the primary ingredient. Louisiana volleyball opened its year with 11 straight match wins and had been destined to contend for a Sunshine Belt title when COVID derailed the Cajuns in the course of the SBC tournament. On the pitch, Louisiana soccer won its next SBC event match, but no team savored far more achievement than Billy Napier and Louisiana football.
The Cajuns time commenced with a bang, a 31-14 earn more than Iowa Condition, the program’s 1st earn more than a major-25 group. Louisiana grabbed a agency footing in the AP leading 25 while winning nine normal year video games, which includes a 24-21 victory at Appalachian Condition on a wet Friday night time. It was the team’s 1st earn around the Mountaineers in software heritage. The Cajuns headed to their 3rd-straight Sunshine Belt Championship recreation, and have been in Conway, SC, receiving set to engage in Coastal Carolina when a optimistic COVID exam on the Chanticleers’ group canceled the match. The Cajuns did, having said that, make a 10th gain, beating UTSA 31-24 in the Initially Responder Bowl, notching the team’s second 10-gain period in as several several years, the only two in faculty background.
The conclusion of 2020 marks the close of non-conference participate in in basketball. The Louisiana men are off to a superior get started (6-1) with newcomer Theo Akwuba playing a pivotal position next to senior Cedric Russell and sophomore Mylik Wilson. The Cajuns are being regarded as 1 of the leading mid-big teams this year.
There was a great deal of unsightly all over the 2020 calendar, but the amount of engage in from the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns was as substantial as its at any time been. For many groups the bar is now a couple of inches greater.
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