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2023–24 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ragin' Cajuns, led by 14th-year head coach Bob Marlin, played their home games at the Cajundome as members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 19–14, 10–8 in Sun Belt play to finish in fifth place. As the No. 5 seed in the Sun Belt tournament, they defeated Coastal Carolina in the second round, before losing to Arkansas State in the quarterfinals. Previous season The Ragin' Cajuns finished the 2021–22 season 26–8, 13–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for second place. As the No. 2 seed in the Sun Belt tournament, they defeated Georgia Southern, Texas State, and South Alabama to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 13 seed in the East region. Then they lost to Tennessee in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob Marlin
Robert Lee Marlin (born March 5, 1959) is an American college basketball coach who is the former head men's basketball coach for the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns men’s basketball team. He was relieved of his coaching duties on December 19, 2024. Previously, he was the head coach at Sam Houston State from 1998 to 2010. Early life and education Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Marlin graduated from Mississippi State University in 1981 with a B.S. in physical education. Marlin completed a master's degree in health and physical education at Northeast Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana at Monroe) in 1983. Coaching career Early assistant positions (1983–1990) While attending graduate school at Northeast Louisiana, Marlin was a graduate assistant for the Northeast Louisiana Indians men's basketball team under Mike Vining from 1981 to 1983, during which Northeast Louisiana made the 1982 NCAA tournament. After graduate school, Marlin worked in his first full-tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2022–23 Texas State Bobcats Men's Basketball Team
The 2022–23 Texas State Bobcats men's basketball team represented Texas State University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bobcats, led by third-year head coach Terrence Johnson, played their home games at Strahan Arena in San Marcos, Texas as members of the Sun Belt Conference. Previous season The Bobcats finished the 2020–21 season 21–8, 12–3 in Sun Belt play to win the regular season championship. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt tournament to Louisiana. As a regular season champion who did not win their conference tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to North Texas. Offseason Departures Incoming transfers Recruiting classes 2022 recruiting class 2023 recruiting class Preseason Preseason Sun Belt Conference poll The Bobcats were picked to finish in second place in the conference's preseason poll. Senior guard Mason Harrell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it List of municipalities in Louisiana, Louisiana's second-most populous city. It is the county seat, seat of Louisiana's most populous List of parishes in Louisiana, parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Greater Baton Rouge, which had 870,569 residents in 2020. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural cliff, bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed the development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John And Randolph Foster High School
John and Randolph Foster High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, north of Rosenberg. The school is part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District. It opened in 2001, with the intent of relieving the student population at nearby B.F. Terry High School and Lamar Consolidated High School. Foster serves: unincorporated areas of Fort Bend County, a small portion of Rosenberg, a portion of Pecan Grove, and the communities of Cumings, Foster, Long Meadow Farms and Lakemont. It previously served Fulshear, Simonton, and Weston Lakes, as well as the rest of LCISD Pecan Grove. Feeder schools Junior high school * Briscoe Junior High School Middle school * Wertheimer Middle School Elementary schools * Carl Briscoe Bentley Elementary School * Joe A. Hubenak Elementary School * Judge James C. Adolphus Elementary School * Samuel Miles Frost Elementary School * McNeill Elementary School Either of these el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Richmond, Texas
Richmond is a suburb of Houston and the county seat of Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. The city is located within the metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city population was 11,627. History In 1822, a group of Austin's colonists went up the Brazos River, stopping near present-day Richmond where they built a fort called "Fort Bend". Named after Richmond, England, the town was among the 19 cities first incorporated by the short-lived Republic of Texas, in 1837. Early residents of the city include many prominent figures in Texas lore such as Jane Long, Deaf Smith, and Mirabeau Lamar, who are all buried in Richmond, as is Walter Moses Burton, the nation's first Black elected sheriff. On August 16, 1889, the town was the site of the "Battle of Richmond", an armed fight culminating the Jaybird–Woodpecker War, a violent feud over post-Reconstruction political control of Fort Bend County. The mayor from 1949 until his death in 2012 was Hilmar Moore. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hamilton Christian Academy
Hamilton Christian School is a K- 12 Christian private school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. Athletics Hamilton Christian School competes in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association in District 4 of Class 1A. Hamilton's District 4 rivals include the Basile Bearcats, Elton Indians, Merryville Panthers, Oberlin Tigers, South Cameron Tarpons, St. Edmund Blue Jays, and Grand Lake Hornets. The Warriors and Lady Warriors compete in a variety of sports. The Warriors compete in baseball, basketball, football, golf, bowling, and track & field (indoor and outdoor), while the Lady Warriors compete in softball, basketball, volleyball, golf, bowling, and track & field (indoor and outdoor). State Runners-Up Boys Basketball *(1) 2019 Notable alumni * Jace Peterson, professional baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and formerly the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, and Milwaukee Brewers The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the county seat, parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles (Louisiana), Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the Southwest Louisiana, southwest region of the state. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Lake Charles's population was 84,872. The city and metropolitan area of Lake Charles is considered a regionally significant center of petrochemical refining, gambling, tourism, and education, being home to McNeese State University and Sowela Technical Community College. Because of the lakes and waterways throughout the city, Lake Charles metropolitan area, metropolitan Lake Charles is often called the "Lake Area". History On March 7, 1861, Lake Charles was incorporated as the town of Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carencro High School
Carencro High School is a Lafayette Parish high school located in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. Carencro High School is one of six Lafayette Parish Public High Schools. Geographically, the school is located approximately 3.5 miles north of Interstate 10 and approximately one mile west of Interstate 49. The current school administrative team consists of Vanessa Knott, Principal, and Assistant Principals, Kaydra Ellis, Matthew Shumaker, and Markenia Boutte. School history Carencro High School started as Carencro School in 1874, then moved to what is now Carencro Middle School. The present-day Carencro High School began construction in 1969. Today, the main buildings include Building 1 (Office & Cafeteria), Building 2, Building 3 (Little Theater, Band, & Chorus), Building 4 (Agriculture/Home Economics), Building 5 (known as Boys' Gym), Building 6 (known as Girls' Gym), Building 7, and Building 8 (portable classrooms). Feeder schools Students that attend Carencro High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carencro, Louisiana
Carencro (; historically ) is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Lafayette. The population was 7,526 at the 2010 census, up from 6,120 in 2000; at the 2020 census, its population was 9,272. The name of the city is derived from the Cajun French word for buzzard; the spot where the community was settled was one where large flocks of American black vultures roosted in the bald cypress trees. The name means "carrion crow." Carencro is part of the Lafayette metropolitan area. Etymology Many senior Carencro natives attest that the town's name originates from before the American Civil War. According to this local legend, Native Americans told Vermilionville settlers that in old times a large number of "carrion crows" (vultures, called ''carencro'' in French) had settled around the Vermilion River between Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast on a fish die-off. There is a related theory, consistent with the spelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dodge City Community College
Dodge City Community College (DC3, DCCC) is a public community college in Dodge City, Kansas, United States. History Campus Founded in 1935, Dodge City Community College was located on the third floor of the Senior High School Building at 1601 First Avenue, for 22 years. By 1957, it had grown large enough to require a move to a different location, at 1000 Second Avenue. The college remained there for the next 13 years. In 1965, the Kansas Legislature passed legislation changing control of the state's junior colleges from the State Board of Education to locally elected Boards. Kansas junior colleges became genuine community colleges, answerable to the citizens in their areas. Ford County voted overwhelmingly to assume responsibility for the college, and in the fall of 1965, the county elected its first board of trustees. In the fall of 1966, the Student Affairs Division was first established. The Student Affairs encompassed counseling, records and admission, student housing, camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
North Davidson High School
North Davidson High School (commonly referred to as "NDHS," or simply "North") is a public high school in Welcome, North Carolina (near Lexington). It was established in 1952 and is located along Old US Highway 52 in northern Davidson County. The high school serves the Welcome, Arcadia and Midway areas. Feeder schools *Friedburg Elementary * Midway Elementary *Northwest Elementary *Welcome Elementary *North Davidson Middle Athletics The school's mascot is the Black Knight, although female athletic teams often use the term "Lady Knights". NDHS is a member of the Mid Piedmont 3-A Conference. Their biggest rivals are Central Davidson, and Lexington Senior High in Lexington, North Carolina, and Ledford High in Thomasville, North Carolina. The school's athletics logo is an interlocking "ND" in orange, black, and white colors. It is copied from the University of Notre Dame athletics logo. Other NDHS logos feature black knights riding upon a horse in armor. North Davidson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the List of municipalities in North Carolina, fifth-most populous city in North Carolina and the List of United States cities by population, 91st-most populous city in the United States. The population of the Winston-Salem Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area was estimated to be 695,630 in 2023. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad region, home to about 1.7 million residents. Winston-Salem is called the "Twin City" for its dual heritage, and the "Camel City" as a reference to the city's historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, R. J. Reynolds' Camel (cigarette), Camel cigarettes. Many North Carolina, North Carolinians refer to the city as "Winston" in informal speech. Winston-Salem is also home to si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
