MOBILE, Ala. – came off the bench to score 18 of his career-high 20 points in the first half and the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns tied a school-record with its 25th victory of the season in claiming an 88-71 win over South Alabama in a Sun Belt Conference men's basketball game on Saturday at the Mitchell Center.
and combined for 24 points off the bench as Louisiana (25-4, 15-1 SBC) won its fifth straight game and claimed its first outright SBC title since the 1999-2000 season. The Ragin' Cajuns snapped a four-game losing streak to South Alabama (14-15, 7-9 SBC) in Mobile and improved Louisiana's record on the road to 10-3 – one win off the single-season record set in 1971-72.