The college football season ended last night with Indiana winning its first national championship. The Hoosiers held on to beat the Miami Hurricanes 27-21 to complete a 16-0 season. For LSU fans hoping the Tigers are in the national championship game next year. The C-F-P title game will be in Las Vegas on January 25th.
Now that the college football season is over. That means the college baseball season is right around the corner. Coach Jay Johnson has several pitchers who could start on the weekend, one of them is Kansas transfer Cooper Moore…
Cut 18 (09) “…one of those guys”
We are 24 days away from the season opener on February 13th against Milwaukee, and LSU is ranked second in Baseball America’s preseason Top 25, behind UCLA.
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In a battle for first place in the Southland Conference at Stopher Gymnasium in Thibodaux, it was all Stephen F Austin as the Lumberjacks slammed the Colonels 79 to 62. S-F-A is now 9-1 in league play, Nicholls is 7-3.
McNeese is all alone in second place as the Cowboys beat Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi 69-53. Larry Johnson had 17 points and nine rebounds.
Tough loss for Northwestern State as the Demons missed a shot at the buzzer to tie the game as N-S-U fell to Houston Christian 82-80.
In other Southland action….UNO upended Lamar 89-76 and UT Rio Grande Valley beat Southeastern Louisiana 68-65.
The LSU men’s basketball team will try for its second straight SEC win when they visit 16th ranked Florida tonight. Tigers starting point guard DJ Thomas is listed as questionable as he’s getting closer to returning from a leg injury suffered before the start of SEC play.