The Louisiana Christian basketball teams made their western swing a sweep Saturday, following wins over Southwest in Hobbs, N.M. on Thursday with a pair of victories Saturday in Dallas over teams from Paul Quinn.
LCU’s regular season ends at home Thursday with six men’s players and three women set for Senior Night honors in a doubleheader at H.O. West Fieldhouse starting with a 5:30 women’s game, followed by the men scheduled for 7:30.
Firing on all cylinders Saturday afternoon might be an understatement as the men from Pineville won 88-73, climbing back to .500 (13-13) overall and moving to 12-10 in the Red River Athletic Conference.
The Wildcats made more than half their shots for the fourth time (34-of-66, 51.5 percent), topped 20+ assists (24) for the second time, committed less than 10 turnovers (9) for the third time, blocked a season-high seven shots, and boasted a +10 or better (41-29, +12) rebounding margin for the seventh time.
Devin Carter scored 25, topping 20 on the scoreboard for the 10th time this year, and made five or more three-pointers (5-for-11) for the eighth time, while swiping a team/season-best trio of steals and dishing out four assists.
Chukwuemeke Nwaoshai had a Saturday to remember, collecting personal bests in points (13), field goals (6-of-7), and blocks (4) on top of registering his first multi-assist outing (2), while grabbing a game-high nine rebounds.
Bryce Weinmunson sank a season-best seven buckets while pouring in 17 points. Jon’Quarius McGhee scored 14 bench points in 19 minutes as he went 5-for-5 overall, 2-of-2 from distance, and made both of his freebies.
LCU WOMEN 77, PAUL QUINN 69: The Wildcats won their fourth straight row behind a pair of monster afternoons from Princis Goff and Kylei Leblanc.
The Orange and Blue got back to playing bully ball on the glass, posting a +19 rebounding margin of 51-32 as they improved to 10-12 in the RRAC, 10-14 overall. Paul Quinn slipped to 10-15 overall, 9-3 in conference.
LCU came out on fire and never let off the gas, outscoring the Tigers by 13 in the first quarter (23-10) and never looking back.
Goff notched her ninth double-double of 2024-25 and 16th as a Wildcat with 20 points and a season-best 12 rebounds. It was her 15th game of the year with at least 20 points scored as she sank 10-of-10 from the free throw line and logged four assists.
Leblanc also saw the stat sheet using double-double vision, doing so for the fifth time thanks to a personal/game-best 14 boards in addition to 13 points.
Deja Tanks scored 15 points and snagged eight rebounds in just 21 minutes.