Can March Madness get any madder? The Elite Eight of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is set, with plenty of unexpected members. St. Peter’s becomes the first 15-seed EVER to advance to a Regional Final after beating Purdue 67-64. Eighth-seeded North Carolina beat UCLA, 73-66. Miami advances to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history by knocking off Iowa State, and Kansas topped Providence, 66-61.

Today, two teams will be able to make their travel plans for New Orleans. Houston faces Villanova in the South Regional Final, and out West Duke and Arkansas will battle it out for a spot in the Final Four.

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In the women’s tournament, top seeds South Carolina and Stanford moved one step closer to the Final Four as did Texas and Creighton. The Blue Jays making their first regional final. And today, Notre Dame faces NC State, Indiana takes on UConn, Tennessee battles Louisville, and South Dakota squares off with Michigan.

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LSU took another loss on the diamond, going down to Florida 7-2 on Friday night; the fourth setback in the last five games for the Tigers. LSU, now 1-3 in the SEC, was shut out for seven innings before getting single runs in both the eighth and ninth. Blake Money was knocked around in his return to the mound, allowing six earned runs in five innings. Hunter Barco went seven innings with eight strikeouts to puck up the win for the Gators. LSU also collected its 38th error of the season.

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Nicholls topped Southeastern 6-4 in the first game of their Southland Conference series. Grambling fell to Southern, 3-2. UNO got past Northwestern State, 7-6. McNeese dropped a close one, 4-6 to Houston Baptist, and UL-Lafayette beat South Alabama, 5-4 in 11 innings.

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The New Orleans Pelicans have a matinee performance today. The Pels host the San Antonio Spurs at 4 pm in the Smoothie King Center. New Orleans has won three of its last four games, including a 124-91 win over San Antonio a week ago. The Pels are two games up on the Spurs in the Western Conference standings with nine games left to play in the regular season.

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The New Orleans Saints have signed safety Daniel Sorenson to a one-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. He spent the last seven season with the Kansas City Chiefs.