The LSU men’s basketball team leaves today for Pittsburgh, where they’ll play North Carolina State on Thursday in the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers bring a 22-and-10 record to the Big Dance and some of those losses were against bad teams. LSU guard Keith Hornsby says now that they are in the field of 68, they should not look past anyone…

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LSU needs to win six straight games to win a national championship.

The UL-Lafayette Men’s Basketball team continues into the postseason after accepting a bid to participate in the CollegeInsider-dot-com Tournament. The Cajuns will travel to San Antonio to take on Incarnate Word at 7PM tonight in first round action.

Louisiana Tech hosts Central Michigan tonight in the N-I-T. It’s the second straight year the Bulldogs will get to host a postseason game. But this year Tech is coming off a disappointing loss in the Conference USA tournament and Coach Michael White is interested to see how his team will react…

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Central Michigan was the regular season Mid-American Conference West Division champions.

The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament bracket is released and Louisiana is represented in three of the four regionals. In the Albany Regional, LSU comes in at a number 11 seed and will face South Florida Saturday at 5:30PM in Tampa. In the Oklahoma City Regional, 15th seed Northwestern State travels to Waco, Texas to take on Baylor Friday afternoon at 1:30PM. And in the Spokane Regional, Tulane gets in as a 12 seed and will face 5th seed Mississippi State Friday at 1:30PM in Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.