• Cameron Dumas, a 5-foot-9 sophomore guard from Baton Rouge, La., and Episcopal High School. Dumas, a computer science major, is a transfer from NAIA member and city rival Loyola.
• Makye Richard, a 6-2 junior guard from Morgan City, La., and Morgan City High School. Richard is a transfer from NAIA member Northern New Mexico. His major is business management.
• Cam Wilson, a 6-9 center from Rochester, N.Y., and McQuaid Jesuit High School. Wilson transferred from NCAA Division III Cazenovia. He is a business sales and marketing major.
• Walk-on Albert Jackson, a 6-5 freshman forward from Laurel, Md., and Atholton High School. Jackson is a biology / pre-medical major.
Dumas averaged 8.9 points, 2.4 assists, 1.2 steals and made 45 3-pointers last season for Loyola, which won the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament and qualified for NAIA nationals. Dumas scored in double figures 10 times, including a 20-point performance against XULA in which he made 5-of-5 3-pointers.As a senior at Episcopal, Dumas averaged 19.4 points, two rebounds, 6.3 assists and 3.4 steals — and he intercepted eight passes for the football team.
Richard made 41 3-pointers and averaged 14.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and a team-leading 3.4 assists last season for Northern New Mexico. He averaged 12.6 points as a senior at Morgan City, was honorable-mention Class 4A All-State and the District 7-4A Defensive Most Valuable Player.
Wilson led NCAA Division III as a freshman in 2017-18 with 4.4 blocked shots per game. His two-season averages at Cazenovia included 4.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.7 blocks in 32 games. Wilson was conference MVP in his junior year at McQuaid Jesuit.
Jackson averaged 8.2 points, four rebounds and 2.2 assists last season and helped Atholton win the county championship. He transferred to Atholton after three years at Mount St. Joseph in Baltimore.
XULA, 18-14 overall and 8-6 (tied for fourth place) in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference a year ago, will open its 81st season with games in Georgia at 5 p.m. EDT Oct. 25 at Thomas (Thomasville) and 4 p.m. EDT Oct. 26 at Coastal Georgia (Brunswick). The Gold Rush home opener will tip off at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 against Carver in the Convocation Center.
NOTES: Fourth-year head coach Alfred Williams said seniors Virgil Davison and Jerry Gibson have rejoined the team after a year's absence. Davison, a 5-8 guard, averaged a team-leading 14.2 points per game in 2017-18, was second-team All-GCAC and honorable-mention NAIA Division I All-America. Gibson, a 6-5 forward, averaged 2.1 points and 2.3 rebounds in 45 games over two seasons
. . . There are 20 student-athletes on the 2019-20 roster — the most for the Gold Rush since the 1991-92 season . . . XULA won its last 23 season openers and its last 23 home openers.
| 2019-20 XULA Men's Basketball Newcomers | ||||||
| Name | Pos. | Ht. | Wt. | Yr.* | Hometown | High School (Previous College) |
| Nigel Allen | G | 6-2 | 165 | Jr. | Port Allen, La. | Port Allen (Western Texas JC) |
| Drew Buggs | F | 6-6 | 210 | Jr. | Sacramento, Calif. | Cosumnes Oaks (Cosumnes River JC) |
| Cameron Dumas | G | 5-9 | 170 | So. | Baton Rouge, La. | Episcopal (Loyola [N.O.]) |
| Albert Jackson | F | 6-5 | 192 | Fr. | Laurel, Md. | Atholton |
| TJ Jones | G | 5-8 | 165 | Fr. | Opelousas, La. | Lafayette Christian Academy |
| Makye Richard | G | 6-2 | 190 | Jr. | Morgan City, La. | Morgan City (Northern New Mexico) |
| Cameron Wells | G | 6-1 | 185 | Fr. | Murphy, Texas | Wylie |
| Ethan White | G-F | 6-3 | 185 | Jr. | San Antonio, Texas | East Central (Our Lady of the Lake) |
| Cam Wilson | C | 6-9 | 225 | Jr. | Rochester, N.Y, | McQuaid Jesuit (Cazenovia) |
| * XULA athletic classification in 2019-20 Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications Department of Athletics & Recreation XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA XULAgold.com twitter.com/xulagold www.facebook.com/xulagold | ||||||
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