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Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns were a decided underdog in their conference opener in the Cajundome Thursday night against the league's pre-season favorites. The Cajuns and MIddle Tennessee played toe to toe  for a good while in the second half before a cold spell enabled the Blue Raiders to pull away 72-58. ...

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun men's basketball team returns to the hardwood on Thursday evening when coach Bob Marlin's squad plays host to the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams.

Middle Tennessee and FAU gone.

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun women's basketball team dropped their 2012-2013 Sun Belt Conference opener on Saturday, as they fell to the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, 72-45, at Earl K. Long Gym.

In the SBC, it all starts tonight.

Bowl eligibility on the mind of several this week......

Two down, four to go. Louisiana-Monroe (6-2, 4-0) and Western Kentucky (6-2, 3-1) became the first two Sun Belt schools to achieve bowl eligibility over the weekend, with wins over South Alabama and FIU, respectively.  Neither have ever been to an FBS bowl game. ...

There are more important games than you might think........

Seven of the Sun Belt's ten teams are in action this Saturday.  The Cajuns and Arkansas State don't meet until Tuesday night and North Texas has the week off.  Here is the lineup of games. FIU (1-6, 0-3) AT TROY (3-3, 2-2)--Before the season started this one looked like must see TV.  FIU was...

....and it all starts tonight

The 2013 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament, fan safety and scheduling for basketball and a change in the conference ejection policy highlighted the Sun Belt Conference fall meetings, which concluded Wednesday in New Orleans. The baseball tournament, to be held in May at M...

Gainesville and Columbia head the list.

Evidently this is a good week for an open date.  Troy, FAU, South Alabama and Western Kentucky are all resting this week. Besides the Cajuns and Tulane, there are only three other games involving Sun Belt schools and one of them is on Thursday: ARKANSAS STATE (2-3, 0-1) AT FIU (1-4, 0-1)--The team that won the league last year is facing the team that was picked to win the league this year.  An...

Here are two of the best catches from a very entertaining weekend of college football: Thanks to Bar Stool Sports for a little help. This first one is by West Virginia's J.D. Woods. The Mountaineers defeated the Baylor Bears, 70-63, in a game that had a little bit of everything, including this tremendous catch:   The second catch is the one made by Anthony Amos in the Blue Raiders upset win over t

It was only a matter of time before a Sun Belt school became the lead story in college football. Saturday was the day. The league had some really good moments in the past, but never had a Sun Belt school beaten a top-ten ranked team...

Well, the first weekend of college football is in the books and half the fan bases are happy and half are not. Well, except for schools like Louisiana-Monroe, who don't open their season until this Saturday. Here are my thoughts about the results around the Sun Belt Conference (Louisiana excluded...

Louisiana 42, Middle Tennessee 28 Cajun Field, Lafayette, LA December 3, 2008 There are a few Tyrell Fenroy moments that could have made this list of memorable moments. Like the time the Cajuns won a piece of the Sun Belt title his freshman season with a convincing win over Louisiana-Monroe that kept the Warhawks out of the New Orleans Bowl...

The Sun Belt Conference recently announced they were adding the University of Texas-Arlington to their membership, effective July 1, 2013. Then, they made another announcement. "No further expansion is planned at this time." If Karl Benson had been in the room, I'd have hugged him...

New blood could mean a different way of doing things

Hank LaRue's three run homer highlighted the first inning, and #7 seed Middle Tennessee put the game away with six runs in the third inning and defeated #3 seed FIU 12-6 in Friday action at the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament in Bowling Green, KY...