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Since an 80-73 non-conference loss at Delta State
on Jan. 3, 2003, the Gold Nuggets are 123-33 (.788)


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updated March 27, 2008

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The Gold Nuggets were 27-7 in 2007-08 and won the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.

The Gold Nuggets celebrate after winning 65-64 at Loyola in the GCAC Tournament championship game

2008 Tournament Champion
Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

XU wins 65-64 at Loyola
on Shayla Boyd's basket
with less than a second remaining
    
2007-08 Highlights
• Seventh consecutive 20-win season — 27 wins, 7 losses — and the 15th in 16 seasons.
• Won 65-64 at Loyola in the championship game of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
• School-record seventh consecutive appearance in the NAIA Division I National Tournament.
• Tied for 24th in the final NAIA coaches poll.
• Defeated Northwestern State and Grambling to improve its winning streak against NCAA Division I opponents to five.
• 2-1 against GCAC regular-season champion and NAIA tourney quarterfinalist Loyola.
• Raised more than $700 for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "Think Pink" initiative to fight breast cancer.
• Jarryn Cleaves became the third Gold Nugget to be named All-GCAC four times. Erica Turnbull was All-GCAC for a second straight year.
• Jarryn Cleaves received honorable mention on the NAIA Division I All-America team for the second consecutive season.
• Jarryn Cleaves finished with Xavier career records for games played (136), 3-point field goals (283), 3-point field-goal percentage (.357) and 3-point field-goal attempts (793). She is second in free-throw percentage (.756) and fifth in points (1,745).
• Bo Browder, Xavier's winningest all-time women's basketball coach, earned his 200th victory with the Nuggets when they defeated College of the Bahamas 73-42 at The Barn on Nov. 29.

Xavier appearances at the
NAIA Division I National Championship


1994   •   1995   •   1996   •   1997   •   1998
1999   •   2001   •   2002   •   2003   •   2004
2005   •   2007   •   2008

   NAIA

Seven schools have active streaks of seven or more consecutive appearances at NAIA Division I nationals in women's basketball:
Freed-Hardeman, Oklahoma Baptist, Oklahoma City, Trevecca Nazarene, Union (Tenn.), Vanguard and XAVIER.

 

 
Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC). Xavier fields men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country and tennis.

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