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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 66
BY SENATORS LONG AND LUNEAU
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend the Louisiana State University at Alexandria men's basketball team on its
historic season, as they advanced to the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National
Championship game for the first time in program history.
WHEREAS, the Louisiana State University at Alexandria (LSUA) men's basketball
team, the Generals, fought their way to the championship game in Kansas City, Missouri in
March 2018, to face the Graceland University Yellowjackets; and
WHEREAS, the fourteenth-ranked Generals were looking to become the first
Louisiana school to win a men's basketball national championship since Grambling State
University won the NAIA championship in 1961; and
WHEREAS, the LSUA Generals advanced from the Naismith Bracket to the Fab
Four of the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship Tournament for the
second consecutive year and only the second time in the program's history; and
WHEREAS, the championship game was hard fought between both teams, finishing
regulation in a seventy-two to seventy-two tie, sending the contest to overtime, as the
Generals missed a shot at the buzzer necessitating the additional playing time; and
WHEREAS, LSUA took an eight point deficit into halftime and then ripped off runs
of fifteen points to four and fifteen to two to give the team a seventy to sixty-six lead with
less than two minutes left in regulation, however the Graceland Yellowjackets roared back
to tie the game; and
WHEREAS, both teams led during overtime, but as the game came to the last
seconds with the teams tied at eighty, the LSUA defense forced the ball out of the hands of
the Yellowjackets' best shooter, however another player took the ball out of his teammate's
hands and launched a three-pointer that hit just as the buzzer sounded, winning the game
eighty-three to eighty, and dashing the dreams of the Generals; and
WHEREAS, the Generals' head coach, Larry Cordaro, pronounced the game
"unbelievable" with his team leaving "it all out on the court tonight" and refusing to allow
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a single shot to define an outstanding season for his basketball team that finished the season
with an impressive twenty-nine wins; and
WHEREAS, after the championship game the NAIA announced its All-American
teams and Jordin Williams of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was named a First Team
All-American, and finished his final season as a General with over seven hundred points
scored, shattering the previous LSUA record by more than two hundred points, surpassing
fifteen hundred career points, finished his career with All-Conference first team honors and
NAIA All-Tournament honors, as well; and
WHEREAS, Second Team All-American honors for the second consecutive season
went to Brandon Moss, also a senior, of Bessemer, Alabama, who followed a
record-breaking junior year with one hundred more points scored in his senior campaign,
finishing with an average of sixteen point six points scored per game and finishing his
two-year LSUA career with the third most points scored in program history with over eleven
hundreds point scored, leaving his mark on the LSUA record books; and
WHEREAS, William Claiborne finished the championship game with eighteen
points and joined his teammate, Jordin Williams, on the NAIA All-Tournament team; and
WHEREAS, two record-breaking seasons and two consecutive trips to the NAIA Fab
Four is a significant accomplishment for the LSUA Generals and bodes well for the future
of NAIA basketball in the heart of Louisiana.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend the Louisiana State University at Alexandria men's basketball team on its historic
season, as they advanced to the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship
game.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
LSUA Generals men's basketball head coach, Larry Cordaro, on behalf of his team and the
entire university.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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