Xavier University of Louisiana Athletics

•  The last men's college basketball team in Louisiana to produce an unbeaten season
•  29 wins, zero losses in the 1940-41 season — 13-0 home, 13-0 away, 3-0 neutral
•  4-0 in winning the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament at Tuskegee, Ala. . . . beat defending champion Clark (Ga.) 37-32 in the semifinals on Feb. 28, 1941, then defeated Tuskegee 34-27 for the championship on March 1, 1941
•  Despite the unbeaten record, the team was not invited to the NCAA, NIT or NAIA tournaments; those end-of-season events were still segregated
•  The Gold Rush outscored opponents by an average of 15.3 points per game . . . XULA scored 1,239 points (42.7 per game) and allowed 794 points (27.4 per game)
•  18 of the 29 victories were by double digits
•  From Jan, 13-Feb. 27, 1941, XULA won 15 of 16 games by double digits, the first eight on the road
•  Biggest winning margin: 31 points vs. Morehouse (40-9) at home on Feb. 17, 1941, and 54-23 vs. Tillotson (54-23) at home two days later
•  The closest game was a 35-33 victory at Florida A&M on Jan. 4, 1941
•  All the victories were against HBCUs
•  Giles Wright was the head coach . . . the 15-player roster:
        — Joseph Connor
        — Frank Crozier
        — Leonidas Epps
        — Oscar Green
        — James Hall
        — Henry Harris
        — Wince King
        — Ben Mourning
        — Charles Perkins
        — Edgar Reeves
        — Eugene Saffold
        — Allen Summers
        — Lucius Thomas
        — Eldridge Williams
        — Oliver Williams