11:40 LRN Sportscast

The 13th ranked LSU Lady Tigers won easily over the Vanderbilt Commodores last night 85-62. Flau’jae Johnson had 17 points and Angel Reese had 15 points and 16 rebounds. The Lady Tigers will host Alabama on Sunday. The Crimson Tide have won four in a row. Tip off is at 3 PM.

Tonight the Pelicans are at the Lakers. New Orleans is seeking its fifth straight win. The Pels are 30-21 on the season and in sixth place in the West. The Lakers are 27-26 and in ninth place.

Looking ahead to college basketball tomorrow, LSU hosts 16th ranked Alabama. Louisiana Tech visits Liberty in a game that can be seen on ESPN U. ULM hosts Eastern Michigan in the Sun Belt-MAC challenge.

Southeastern Louisiana is at Northwestern State. McNeese hosts Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi. Grambling hosts Alabama State and Southern hosts Alabama A-and-M at 5:30.

First-year ULM football coach Bryant Vincent believes the Warhawks signed the best running back out of the state of Mississippi. Vincent says Ahmad Hardy rushed for 22-hundred yards his senior season…
Cut 19 (16) “…big ones.”
ULM signed 11 players on Wednesday.

With the Super Bowl on Sunday, this is a big weekend for sports betting. Louisiana Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Johns says the American Gaming Association is predicting more than 23-billion dollars will be legally wagered in the U-S. He says it’s hard to predict how much will be wagered in Louisiana…
cut 13 (12) “….a month”