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'' The 2020–21 Lamar Cardinals basketball team represented

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during the

2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 25, 2020 and concluded on March 14, 2021. The 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament culminated the season and began on March 18 and concluded on April 5. Season ...

. The Cardinals were led by seventh-year head coach

Tic Price George "Tic" Price (born November 29, 1955) is an American college basketball coach. He last coached the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State. Prior to that, he served as head coach ...

and played their home games at the

Montagne Center The Montagne Center, built in 1984, is a mixed-use Auxiliary/E&G event center that houses a 10,746-seat a multi-purpose arena and a variety of event spaces in Beaumont, Texas. The Montagne Center was designed especially for the basketball program ...

Beaumont, Texas Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat, seat of government of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, metropo ...

. This season was the Cardinals' last as members of the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

; Lamar was one of four schools, all from Texas, that left the Southland in July 2021 to join the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...

Previous season

The

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finished the 2019–20 season 17–15, 10–10 in Southland play, to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place. They defeated

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in the first round of the Southland tournament and were set to face Nicholls in the second round before the tournament was cancelled amid the

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Roster

TV and radio media

All Lamar games will be broadcast on KLVI, also known as News Talk 560. Live video of all home games (except those picked up by Southland Conference TV agreements) will be streamed on ESPN3.

Schedule and results

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References

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Previous season

Roster

TV and radio media

Schedule and results

See also

References