Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball
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| University | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ||
| First season | 1911–12 | ||
| Conference | Sun Belt | ||
| Location | Lafayette, LA | ||
| Head coach | Bob Marlin (7th year) | ||
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Cajundome (Capacity: 11,550) |
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| Nickname | Ragin' Cajuns | ||
| Colors | Vermilion and White |
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| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
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| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 | |||
| 1972*, 1973*, 1992 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1972*, 1973*, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2004*, 2005*, 2014 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| Southland: 1982 Sun Belt: 1992, 1994, 2000, 2004*, 2005*, 2014 |
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| Conference regular season champions | |||
| Gulf States: 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 Southland: 1972*, 1973*, 1977, 1982 Sun Belt: 1992 |
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| Conference division season champions | |||
| Sun Belt West: 2002, 2003, 2004*, 2008, 2011 *vacated by NCAA |
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The Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school competes in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and play home games at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. Bob Marlin is in his sixth season as head coach.
In 1968, Southwestern Louisiana was placed on two years' probation and barred from postseason play during that time for recruiting violations and for student-athletes receiving financial assistance from an outside organization.
In August 1973, Louisiana–Lafayette—then known as Southwestern Louisiana—became only the second school to receive the so-called "death penalty" from the NCAA. The basketball team was found guilty of over 120 violations. Most of them involved small cash payments to players, letting players borrow coaches' and boosters' cars, letting players use university credit cards to buy gas and buying clothes and other objects for players. However, the most severe violations involved massive academic fraud. In the most egregious case, an assistant coach altered a recruit's high school transcript and forged the principal's signature. Several boosters arranged for surrogates to take college entrance exams for prospective recruits. The NCAA Council found the violations so egregious that it wanted to throw Southwestern Louisiana out of the NCAA altogether. It settled for scrubbing the Ragin' Cajuns' 1972 and 1973 NCAA Tournament appearances from the books and canceling the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons.
In 2007, The Ragin Cajuns were found guilty of major violations in its men's basketball program. An NCAA investigation found that now-former player Orien Greene had relied on 15 hours of correspondence courses taken through another institution in order to remain eligible for the 2004 spring semester and the entire 2004–05 academic year. NCAA rules do not allow student-athletes to use correspondence courses taken from another institution to remain eligible. According to the NCAA, this was an "obvious error" that should have been caught right away, but the school's then-compliance coordinator, director of academic services and registrar all failed to catch it. When school officials learned about the violations, they vacated every game in which Greene participated—43 games in all, including NCAA tournament appearances in 2004 and 2005—and scrubbed Greene's records from the books. The NCAA accepted Louisiana–Lafayette's penalties and also imposed two years' probation.
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