The LSU men’s basketball team won its first SEC Tournament game since 2016 last night as the Tigers topped Ole Miss 76-73 to advance to the semi-finals. Trendon Watford played one of his best games of the season, scoring 24 points. Darius Days scored 20 points and finished with 12 rebounds. LSU will face Arkansas at 2:30 today.

Louisiana Tech was ousted from the Conference USA Tournament yesterday falling to North Texas 54-48. The Bulldogs shot just 32-percent from the field. 1991 was the last time Tech made it to the NCAA Tournament and that streak will continue.

Grambling lost in the SWAC Tournament last night to Prairie View A-and-M 75-63.

Nicholls advanced to tonight’s Southland Tournament Championship game as the Colonels knocked off Northwestern State 88-76. Nicholls will face Abilene Christian at 8:30. The winner gets an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

Jaden Hill returned to form and the LSU baseball team defeated Texas-San Antonio 3-1 last night. Hill recorded just one out last week, but against the Roadrunners, he threw 6.2 innings of shutout baseball. The Tigers scored two runs in the eighth inning to win. Gavin Dugas beat out what could have been a double-play ground out and two runs scored on the play.

Louisiana Tech nearly upset top-ranked Arkansas but the Bulldogs fell to the Hogs 9-7 in ten innings. Razorbacks shortstop Jalen Battles hit a two-run homer in the tenth inning to make sure Arkansas remained undefeated. Parker Bates and Ben Brantley each drove in two runs for the Bulldogs.

Elsewhere, the Cajuns gave up eight runs in the second inning and lost to Southern Miss 13-4. Fourth-ranked Ole Miss crushed ULM 10-1. McNeese, Southeastern Louisiana, UNO, Nicholls, and Northwestern State were all winners in Southland action.

The Pelicans crushed the Cavaliers 116 to 82 as Brandon Ingram had 28 points.