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Louisiana Starts Out Fast, Rolls Past Warhawks, 86-73
MONROE – Jordan Brown scored a game-high 21 factors to guide 5 gamers in double figures and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns opened the sport on a 21-4 run by no means appeared again in claiming an 86-73 win over ULM in a Solar Belt Convention sport on Thursday at Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
Greg Williams, Jr., scored 18 factors as Louisiana (13-4, 3-2 Solar Belt) completed 32-for-52 (61.5 p.c) from the ground to publish its finest common from the ground in a SBC sport since 2017. Joe Charles got here off the bench to tie a career-high with 12 factors with Terence Lewis II including 11 and Kentrell Garnett 10.
Louisiana scored the sport’s first seven factors behind buckets from Brown and Lewis earlier than Garnett buried the primary of a pair of 3-pointers to present the Ragin’ Cajuns a 12-2 lead. Louisiana capped off its opening run when Brown discovered Charles alone below the bucket for one in all his career-high six assists and a 21-4 benefit with 15:06 left within the half.
Brown, who was 8-for-11 from the ground, helped give Louisiana a 33-13 lead with a hook shot within the paint with 8:30 left within the half earlier than a bucket by Charles gave Louisiana its greatest lead of the sport, 43-19, with 5:51 remaining.
ULM (7-11, 3-2 Solar Belt) closed to inside 47-30 at halftime and closed to inside 76-69 on Thomas Howell’s basket with 4:07 remaining within the sport earlier than Louisiana would rating the subsequent six factors as Brown and Jalen Dalcourt every hit a free throw, Garnett scored on a driving layup within the lane and Charles acquired a steal and dunk for an 82-69 lead with 2:25 left.
Langston Powell led ULM with 19 factors with Howell and Savion Gallion scoring 13 every. Tyreke Locure added 12 factors for the Warhawks, who had been 28-for-62 (45.2 p.c) from the ground and 5-for-18 (27.8 p.c) from behind the 3-point line.
Louisiana will proceed its four-game street swing on Saturday when it travels to Cellular, Ala., to face South Alabama in a 3 p.m. contest on the Mitchell Middle. The sport can be streamed reside on ESPN+.
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