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ALMA MATER
In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
Refrain:
Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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NAIA Division I National Championship
At Oman Arena, Jackson, Tenn.
Thursday, March 20: Xavier (27-6) vs. Lambuth (23-9), 6:15 p.m.
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10 schools qualified men's and women's basketball teams for NAIA Division I nationals
in 2007 and 2008:
Azusa Pacific, Cumberlands, Lambuth, Lee, Lewis-Clark State,
McKendree, Oklahoma Baptist, Oklahoma City, Southern Nazarene and XAVIER.
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Gold Nuggets to play defending national champion
March 12, 2008
NEW ORLEANS — The Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketball team
won a pair of notable one-point road decisions this season. One was Nov.
16 at NCAA Division I member Northwestern State, and the other was Tuesday
at Loyola in the championship game of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Gold Nuggets' first-round pairing against Lambuth in the NAIA Division I National
Championship at Jackson, Tenn., figures to be a challenging road game, too.
Although Oman Arena, the tournament site since 1990, isn't Lambuth's home court,
it's less than a mile from the campus. And Lambuth's Lady Eagles were the 2007
NAIA champion.
Xavier (27-6) will play Lambuth (23-9) in the opening round next Thursday
(March 20) at 5:45 p.m. All the pairings for the 32-team event were announced Wednesday.
The Nuggets will enter the Lambuth game with confidence, having won five in
row and 10 of their past 11 games. They ended a three-game losing streak at Loyola
and snapped the Wolfpack's 27-game home winning streak against GCAC opponents with a
65-64 Tuesday decision which denied Loyola a second consecutive championship.
Freshman Shayla Boyd rallied the Nuggets from a five-point deficit against Loyola
in the final 75 seconds. She scored the final six points on 3-of-3 shooting, and her
basket with seven-tenths of a second remaining gave Xavier the victory and its first lead
in more than 17 minutes.
Lambuth survived a 1-4 start this season and closed by winning 14 of its final 16 games.
Xavier was three Tennesseeans on its roster, most notably Memphis resident Jarryn Cleaves.
The four-time All-GCAC guard averaged 23.5 points in the final two rounds of the GCAC
Tournament, and her 22 points against Loyola moved her into fifth place on the Nuggets'
career scoring list with 1,731. In fourth place is Antasha Jones (1993-97) with 1,799 points.
Xavier tied for 24th in the final coaches poll, and Lambuth was 11th. Each quadrant of the
32-team event is seeded 1-8, and the Nuggets are No. 6 for the second consecutive year.
Lambuth is a No. 3 seed.
Xavier will set a school record with its seventh consecutive appearance at nationals, and
it's the 13th time in 14 seasons that the Nuggets qualified. The streaks do not include 2006, when Xavier
suspended athletics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Nuggets seek their first victory at nationals since 2003, when they eliminated another
Tennessee school, Trevecca Nazarene, 64-55. Xavier leads its series with Lambuth 3-2,
but the most recent meeting was a 90-63 Lady Eagles victory in the first round of nationals in 2001.
The GCAC's other qualifier for nationals, Loyola, will play Westminster (Utah) in the first round
at 12:30 p.m. next Thursday.
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