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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Shawn Long hit 5 of 6 from long distance and finished with a career-high 34 points to lead Louisiana Lafayette to a 90-68 win over South Alabama in the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament on Friday. Continue to Article

March 11, 2016 8:27:pm EST

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Mike Best scored 20 points and UC Irvine rallied from a 10-point, second-half deficit to beat UC Riverside 76-66 on Saturday in a Big West Conference regular-season finale. Continue to Article

March 05, 2016 7:41:pm EST

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Ken Williams scored 25 points and added five assists to help lead South Alabama to an 83-70 win over Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday. Continue to Article

February 27, 2016 7:56:pm EST

Shawn Long scored 29 points and grabbed 20 rebounds for the second 20-rebound game of his career and Louisiana Lafayette rallied to beat Troy 73-63 on Thursday night. Long had five of Louisiana Lafayette's 10 blocks, notching the 260th block of his career to set a school record. In third place in the Sun Belt standings, the Ragin' Cajuns swept the season series against the Trojans and ended a three-game skid. Continue to Article

February 25, 2016 11:12:pm EST

The most improbable victory of the college basketball season this year occurred at the start of a Jan. 14 game between Long Beach State and UC Irvine. Five-foot-8 guard Justin Bibbins won the opening tip-off against the tallest player in college basketball, 7-foot-6 center Mamadou Ndiaye. @JeffEisenberg Here's @jbibbs21 winning the first tip this season. pic.twitter.com/Y9eGBnQwhN — LBSU Mens Basketball (@LBSUhoops) February 25, 2016 Since Long Beach State doesn't have a player taller than 6-foot-8, coach Dan Monson figured there was no point in having one of his forwards vie for the ball against Ndiaye. Instead Monson chose to send his fastest guard into the circle and try to win possession another way. Monson instructed Bibbins not to try to jump at all. Bibbins instead darted to the spot he expected Ndiaye to try to tip the ball and batted it backward toward one of his teammates, giving the 49ers possession to open the game. The rematch of this season's most fun tip-off occurred Thursday night in Irvine, and once again Bibbins got the call to go up against Ndiaye. The result was more predictable this time as N'Diaye easily tipped the ball backwards to a teammate. Mamadou vs. Justin now stands at 1 and 1. #BlackAndBlue underway. pic.twitter.com/O2kviCJTvu — LBSU Mens Basketball (@LBSUhoops) February 25, 2016 The tip-off between two men of such differing heights is not the only historic jump ball in which Ndiaye has participated this season. Back in November, Ndiaye squared off against Central Florida's 7-foot-6 center Tacko Fall in perhaps the tallest tip-off in basketball history. Bibbins and Ndiaye may be all even in jump balls, but UC Irvine has bragging rights in the win-loss column. The Anteaters (21-8, 10-3) have swept both games from the 49ers (15-13, 9-4) to remain entrenched in second place in the Big West behind first-place Hawaii. - - - - - - - Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @JeffEisenberg Continue to Article

February 25, 2016 5:05:pm EST

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