UL-Lafayette Coach On NIT Game vs. LSU: 'They Probably Didn't Want To Play This Game'

UL-Lafayette coach Bob Marlin had some interesting comments about Wednesday's upcoming game between LSU and the Ragin’ Cajuns in the NIT, saying the Tigers "probably didn't want to play this game." Per The Advocate:

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“I called Will when he got the job; I didn’t ask him right then about playing, but I have since then and they’re not interested,” he said. “They probably didn’t want to play this game, to be honest.”

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Marlin, who led his team to a 27-6 record this season and was the Sun Belt’s regular-season champion, also believed his team deserved to host Wednesday's game.

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“We would like to play this game at home,” he said. “Our athletic director reached out to the commissioner and to a couple others to get a read on the seeding and how that happened.

“Our RPI is much better, our record is much better, we feel like our gym’s better, there are a lot of things that say we should be a higher seed than we were. We’ve got the second-best record in the entire tournament out of 32 teams, but it is what it is.”

“We haven’t gotten an answer yet,” Marlin said. “There’s a lot of the old-school guys on that committee that just think LSU’s better than we are. They haven’t seen our facilities or looked at the finer print about our team.

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LSU and UL-Lafayette tip-off at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday night. The game will be streamed online at ESPN3.com.

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