The LSU Tigers begin SEC baseball play tonight against Ole Miss as the number one ranked team in the country according to Baseball America. Coach Paul Mainieri says his team earned that number one ranking, by playing solid baseball…

Cut 16 (16) “excites me”

Jared Poche will be tonight’s starting pitcher.

The Saints have traded veteran offensive guard Ben Grubbs to Kansas City for a fifth round draft pick. Saints radio color analyst Hokie Gajan likes the trade and believes Tim Lelito, who started a couple of games at center last season, will be able to move to guard and replace Grubbs…

cut 18 (11) “to the Saints’

The Saints have also signed veteran cornerback Brandon Browner, who won a Super Bowl with the Patriots last season.

Louisiana Tech advances to the semi-finals of the Conference USA basketball tournament with a 70-64 win over Rice. Erik McCree scored 17 and Alex Hamilton added 15 as the Bulldogs will face UAB at 5:30 today.

In the Southland Conference tournament, Northwestern State got past McNeese 96-89. Zeek Woodley’s 34 lead the way for the Demons who advance to the semi-finals where they’ll take on top-seeded Stephen F. Austin. Tipoff is scheduled for 5PM.

Texas A&M Corpus Christi downed UNO 61-58. The Privateers end their season with an 11-18 record.

Quarterfinal action gets underway today in the Sun Belt tournament. At 5 o’clock, fourth seed UL-Lafayette faces eighth seed Texas State and third seed ULM takes on sixth seed South Alabama at 7:30.

And LSU begins play in the SEC tournament this afternoon. The number four seed Tigers face Auburn, who upset Texas A&M last night, in quarterfinal action beginning at 2PM. The game can be seen on the SEC Network.