For the third time this season, the LSU men’s basketball team lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks as the Hogs eliminated the Tigers from the SEC Tournament with a 79-67 win in Tampa. The Razorbacks went on a 19-0 during the middle of this game to put the Tigers away, who will now wait to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. They will be either a five or six seed.

The Louisiana Tech men’s and women’s basketball teams are in the Conference USA Tournament finals today playing for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The men’s squad scored just 42 points but still beat North Texas 42-36 yesterday. They will play a tired UAB team tonight in the championship game. The Blazers beat Middle Tennessee in three overtimes yesterday. The title game is tonight at 7:30.

The Lady Techsters will face Charlotte at 4:30 today in their first Conference USA finals appearance. The Lady Techsters rallied from 13 points down to defeat Middle Tennessee 80-72. La Tech has won a season-high six straight games.

The Nicholls Colonels won the Southland Conference regular-season title, but they were bounced last night in the semi-finals of the league’s conference tournament. Nicholls was just six of 20 from three-point territory and shot 36-percent from the field in a 71-64 loss to Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi.

The Islanders will face Southeastern Louisiana in tonight’s conference tournament championship game. The Lions dribbled past U-N-O 74 to 65 as Joe Kasperzyk came off the bench to score 19 points.

Grambling’s season ended yesterday with a 73-54 loss to Texas Southern.

The Pelicans lost their fourth straight last night as they were stung by the Charlotte Hornets 142 to 120. Brandon Ingram and CJ McCollum did not play, but Zion Williamson watched from the team’s bench.

Baseball. LSU beat Bethune Cookman eight to seven, Louisiana Tech trounced Houston Baptist 22 to 2. ULM outlasted Nicholls 10 to 8 in ten innings and Houston and the Cajuns were suspended at five a piece in the eighth inning yesterday.