Game Information
Date / Time: Thursday, March 14, 2019 / 8:30 p.m. (ET) 
Site: New Orleans, La. / Lakefront Arena (8,933)
Audio Broadcast: Chanticleer Sports Network
Radio: WRNN 99.5 "Hot Talk"
Online Audio Link: http://portal.stretchinternet.com/coastal/
Talent: Chris Burgin (play-by-play) 
Online: ESPN+
Talent:  Matt Stewart (play-by-play); Bob Donewald (analyst);
Whitney Haworth (Sideline Reporter)
Live Stats: GoCCUsports.com
Twitter Updates: @GoCCUSports, @CoastalMBB

Opening Tip
• CCU enters the Sun Belt Championship as the tournament's sixth seed.
• The Chants will also enter the week of action with three honorees named on the team; Zac Cuthbertson was named Second Team All-Sun Belt; DeVante Jones has been named the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year; and, Amidou Bamba has been named 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America Third Team.
• This is CCU's third season as a member of the Sun Belt Conference and it will be the third time the team has played in the Conference Championship ... CCU has a 1-2 record playing in the championship.
• Today's game with Louisiana Monroe will be the third meeting of the season between the two teams and the seventh time the two teams have met.
• The Chants won both contests this season in close games and own a 5-1 lead in the series.
• The two teams have met twice on neutral courts, the first two times they met ... Back in 1992 they met in Honolulu in the Hawaii Pre Holiday Tourney and in 2014 in Chattanooga at the Battle 4 Atlantis Mainland Bracket Tourney ... Both CCU victories.
• A quick look at freshman Ebrima Dibba, who could have also been named the Freshman of the Year ... While missing eight games, he finished the season with 104 assists and 33 steals ... He missed two conference games yet finished second in assists (4.9) and fourth in steals (1.6).

About Louisiana Monroe
• Louisiana Monroe enters the game as the tournament's seventh seed.
• They defeated Appalachian State in the Sun Belt Tournament open round game in Monroe, 89-80.
• ULM has two All-Conference performers on their team.
• Daishon Smith was named to the First Team and he was also named the Sun Belt's Newcomer of the Year.
• Michael Ertel was named to the Third Team ... He also has 114 assists and his 62 steals are second in the Sun Belt and his 2.2 steals per game leads the league.
• Smith is one of the top scorers in the conference averaging 22 points per game ... His 98 three-point field goals are the most made in the conference and he is shooting 40 percent on those attempts.
• Ertel averages 15.2 points per game and is shooting over 43 percent on his threes and is the conference's top free throw shooter hitting over 91 percent of his charity tosses.
• Travis Munnings is averaging 14.5 points per game and his 7.7 rebounds per game leads the team.
• JD Williams gives the Warhawks their fourth double-digit scorer averaging 12.7 points per game.
• ULM averages almost 10 threes per game and their 305 threes and .391 three-point percentage is second in the conference.
• ULM is the conference's leading free throw shooting team with a .778 percentage.

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