The Ragin Cajuns are Louisiana’s lone team in the NCAA Tournament as they are a three-seed in the Starkville Regional and will play second-seeded Cincinnati on Friday night. Coach Matt Deggs expects a lot of Cajun fans in Starkville…
Cut 17 (16) “…for a reason”
Mississippi State is the host school and the Bulldogs face Lipscomb on Friday.
LSU is not in the field of 64 for the first time since the 2011 season. The Tigers are the seventh program to fail to make a regional a year after winning a national title.
Louisiana Tech’s top hitter this season, Trey Hawsey, announced on his Instagram is leaving the Diamond Dogs. Hawsey hit 3-35 with 15 home runs and 47 RBIs.
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The future of the College Football Playoff will be one of the main topics as the SEC spring meetings get underway today in Destin, Florida. The Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 want the College Football Playoff expanded from 12 to 24 teams starting in 2027, but USA Today national college football writer Matt Hayes says SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is only willing to expand to 16 teams.
Sankey told reporters last night that expanding the C-F-P from four to 12 was justifiable and college football leaders should be careful with how far it goes.
LSU football coach Lane Kiffin could be reprimanded for comments he made to Vanity Fair. Kiffin told the magazine that when he was coaching at Ole Miss, recruits told him their grandparents did not want them to live in Oxford because of it’s ties to the Confederacy. Kiffin has defended his comments by saying that people are not reading the actual words in the article.