UIW dominated the Southland Conference last year, earning the program’s third conference title in the previous four seasons and its first undefeated conference season. However, the Cardinals will have plenty of challenges if they plan to repeat with SFA, Lamar, Southeastern, and McNeese as the main threats to dethrone UIW.
Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule interviews with Nicholls and McNeese for this year’s summer magazine, so they are not reflected in these notes.