Thursday, March 7, 2019

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Highlanders Rebound Way Past HU Lady Pirates


Meyer Named Keynote Speaker at Inaugural GSU event


NAIA Baseball Top 25


No. 8 Seed Dillard Set To Face No. 1 Seed Freed-Hardeman In NAIA Tournament First Round


Dillard's Kiki Barnes and N.C. A&T's Earl Hilton Named 2018-19 Under Armour Athletics Directors of the Year


2018-19 NAIA DI Women's Basketball National Championship Qualifiers and Bracket Announced


Talladega Lady Tornadoes Women's Basketball will play Menlo, CA in the first round of the NAIA National Tournament


Gold Nuggets receive at-large bid to NAIA nationals

Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketballNEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketball is still in the hunt for a national title.
     
The Gold Nuggets (23-7) were awarded Wednesday an at-large bid to the NAIA Division I National Championship, presented by Wells Fargo. XULA will play in the tournament's opening round against MidAmerica Nazarene (24-5) at 5:45 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, March 13 (6:45 p.m. New Orleans time) at Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Mont.
     
XULA is one of four teams seeded sixth. MidAmerica Nazarene is a No. 3 seed. In the final coaches poll of the season — it also was announced Wednesday — XULA dropped from 23rd to 24th place, and MidAmerica Nazarene dropped from sixth into a tie for 10th.
     
The XULA women qualified for nationals for the 20th time in 25 seasons, the 20th time overall and the first time since 2016.
     
"Our team — players and staff — worked extremely hard this season to get us back to the national tournament," XULA coach Bo Browder said.
     
The Gold Nuggets' highlights this season included:

     •  Winning the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season championship for the first time in six years.
     •  Setting school records for 3-point field goals made in a game (12) and season (194).
     •  A 59-47 victory at NCAA Division I member Southeastern Louisiana.
     •  Unbeaten at home (13-0) for the first time in six seasons.
     •  Jas Hill was XULA's first GCAC Player of the Year in eight seasons.
     •  Mikayla Bates became the seventh XULA woman to reach 600 points, 400 rebounds, 200 assists and 200 steals in a career.
     •  Maya Trench became the sixth XULA woman to reach 500 points, 300 rebounds and 300 assists in a career.
     •  An active streak of 494 consecutive games gaining 10-or-more turnovers.
     
Browder will make his 15th trip to nationals in 20 seasons as XULA's head coach. His career record is 469-186 (.716).
     
MidAmerica Nazarene, located in Olathe, Kan., finished second in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. Like the Gold Nuggets, the Pioneers lost their quarterfinal game in their conference tournament.
     
This is the 39th annual NAIA national tournament for women's basketball. The event consists of 32 teams and is single-elimination. First-round games will be played March 13-14, followed by the second round (round of 16) March 15, quarterfinals March 16, semifinals March 18 and championship game March 19.
     
The GCAC will have more than one team in the tournament for the first time since 2016 and three teams for the first time since 2005. Dillard won the GCAC Tournament to earn the league's automatic bid to nationals; Talladega, like XULA, received an at-large bid.
     
The Gold Nuggets are 8-19 all-time at nationals and never have advanced past the round of 16. Their most recent victory at nationals was against Westmont in 2014.

NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses — records through March 4)

RANKPREVIOUSSCHOOLRECORDPOINTS
11Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) (7)31-2218
22Campbellsville (Ky.) (2)31-2213
33Columbia (Mo.)29-4203
44Montana Western25-4200
55The Master's (Calif.)26-6191
67Carroll (Mont.)25-7184
78Wayland Baptist (Texas)28-5176
810Westmont (Calif.)24-7168
911William Penn (Iowa)30-2159
106MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)24-5155
109Oklahoma City29-4155
1214Our Lady of the Lake (Texas)25-6143
1312Vanguard (Calif.)22-9135
1416Shawnee State (Ohio)24-9124
1515Bethel (Tenn.)28-5122
1613Talladega (Ala.)27-5118
1718Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)22-10106
1819Lyon (Ark.)24-794
1917Menlo (Calif.)20-988
2020Rocky Mountain (Mont.)20-1285
2121Arizona Christian21-2283
2224Loyola (La.)26-673
2322Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)20-1168
2423Xavier (La.)23-751
2525Pikeville (Ky.)20-1149
Others Receiving Votes: William Jessup (Calif.) 40, LSU-Alexandria (La.) 35, Science & Arts (Okla.) 31, Providence (Mont.) 30, Clarke (Iowa) 7, Georgetown (Ky.) 5

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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