THE GOOD NEWS
Louisiana-Lafayette won a share of the Sun Belt West despite playing with one of the nation's youngest teams. Now the Ragin' Cajuns return eight of the 10 players who saw the most minutes and eight of their top nine scorers.

THE BAD NEWS
With the loss of two key seniors, G David Dees and F Abray Milson, and the absence of any seniors in 2008-09, the Cajuns will still be a young team depending mostly on second-year players.

KEY RETURNEES
Gs Elijah Millsap, Randell Daigle and Travis Bureau and Fs La'Ryan Gary, Chris Gradnigo, Courtney Wallace and Tyren Johnson.

ROSTER REPORT

--ULL's 2007-08 roster included 10 freshmen and sophomores with three seniors and no juniors. Of those sophomores, four were first-year players who sat out the previous season earning their academic eligibility.

--ULL spent most of the season as one of the few Division I programs with no players averaging in double figures in scoring. Millsap led the Cajuns with 9.3 points per game while six players averaged at least 7.5 points per game.

--At the same time, no single player dominating in playing time, either. Coach Robert Lee used his team's growing depth and versatility to go with various match-ups and play the hot hand. Daigle, a sophomore point guard, led ULL with 23.8 minutes per game.

--The Cajuns got 82.8 percent of their scoring from freshmen and sophomores -- the most of any Division I program. Of the Cajuns' 1,951 points this season, only 327 of those come from seniors David Dees, Abray Milson and Maurice Barksdale. Of those three, only Dees finished among the team's top nine scorers.

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