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LSUS ranked No. 2 nationally; picked to win conference The LSUS Pilots basketball team is No. 2 in the Street & Smith’s Sports Annuals’ College Basketball Preview pre-season NAIA national ranking and has been picked by Gulf Coast Athletic Conference coaches to win the conference championship for a third consecutive year. Street & Smith’s also picked LSUS senior guard Josh Porter as one of its five pre-season NAIA First Team All-Americans. “This is a fitting tribute to the outstanding talent and character of our basketball players and our coaching staff,” commented LSUS Chancellor Vincent Marsala. “To have this level of success and recognition at the beginning of only their fourth season is simply phenomenal.” Street & Smith’s also selected Kyile Byrd, an LSUS senior forward who transferred from UT-San Antonio, as an NAIA All-American honorable mention. Porter, a Shreveport native who played at Byrd and Southwood High Schools, was an NAIA third-team All-American at the end of last season. The Pilots, under the leadership of Head Coach Chad McDowell, won both the GCAC regular season and conference tournament championships in the 2005-06 season, and won the regular season championship the previous year. They earned invitations to the NAIA National Championship Tournament the past two years. Intercollegiate basketball returned to LSUS in the 2003-04 season after a hiatus of nearly a decade.
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