The LSU men’s basketball team looks to get back to the .500 mark today when they host Mississippi State for a 7 Pm tip-off at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The Tigers are 5-and-6 in the SEC after beating Texas A-and-M on Tuesday. The Bulldogs are 5-and-5 and Iverson Molinar is State’s top scorer at 18-points a game. M-S-U also features a couple of good rebounders in six-foot-eleven Tolu Smith and six-foot-nine Garrison Brooks.

ULM looks for its fourth straight win when they host Texas State at 2 PM. The Bobcats are also hot as they’ve won four in a row and seven of their last nine.

The Ragin Cajuns take on U-T Arlington. U-L Lafayette looks for its first win in the Cajundome since January 22nd.

In Southland action, McNeese is at Northwestern State, Nicholls hosts Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi, Southeastern Louisiana takes on Houston Baptist in Hammond.

Grambling has a tough game at Texas Southern.

Tomorrow is Super Bowl 56. Leading the Cincinnati Bengals is former LSU quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, and national champion Joe Burrow. In just his second season the sophomore signal-caller has revitalized a franchise that hadn’t won a playoff game in more than 30 years. The Bengals playing for a championship is not something many expected before the season, but Burrow isn’t shocked at all.
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On the other side, former West Monroe Rebel and LSU star Andrew Whitworth will be the first 40-year-old to start at left tackle in Super Bowl history. Whitworth will face the team that drafted him in 2006…
cut 27 (17) “…my life”
Kick-off tomorrow is at 5:30.