Well, it’s official. With this afternoon’s announcement that Mwani Wilkinson had entered the transfer portal, all eleven remaining players from last season’s LSU men’s basketball team are gone. In the last 24 hours Eric Gaines, Alex Fudge, and Wilkinson completed the mass exodus that began shortly after the Tigers were eliminated in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. New coach Matt McMahon will be building the program from the ground up…so far he has a trio of transfers, Justice Hill and Trae Hannibal, who have chosen to follow him to Baton Rouge from Murray State along with Northwestern State center Kendal Coleman, and one high school commit in center Corneilous Williams.
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LSU baseball took a loss last night, falling to Auburn 6-5 and ending the Tigers’ three-game win streak. The defense committed two errors, pushing the team’s total to 42 so far. Jay Johnson says the Tigers have to be able to overcome their miscues.
Cut 21 (09) “…better for it.”
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The New Orleans Pelicans can take another step closer to securing a spot in the NBA play-in tournament by completing a season sweep of the Lakers in Los Angeles tonight. A sweep could mean good things for New Orleans, which reached the postseason in the two previous seasons they pulled off the trick. The Pels have won four of five heading into the game, while the Lakers have dropped five straight to fall to 11th in the West. Both LeBron James and Anthony Davis are expected to play for LA. Game time is set for 9:30 pm.
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The Pelicans are about to increase the number of Hall of Famers on the payroll to two. Assistant coach and former Louisiana Tech great Teresa Weatherspoon earned her induction back in 2019. She will now be joined by Swin Cash, the team’s vice president of basketball operations and team development. Cash, along with Manu Ginobili, Tim Hardaway, and Bob Huggins will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in September. Cash won two NCAA titles at UConn before a 15-year career in the WNBA where she won three more championships and earned a spot on the WNBA’s 20th and 25th-anniversary teams.
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