The LSU Baseball team is in Tuscaloosa to take on Alabama for a 3-game set beginning today. The Tigers are No. 14 in the official NCAA RPI rankings entering the series and are in a four-way tie for 3rd place in the overall league standings with Auburn, Texas A&M and Georgia. The first pitch in game 1 is 6pm.

Just before UL-Lafayette opens its home series against UT Arlington today, they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ragin’ Cajuns 1972 Southland Conference Championship team.

Elsewhere, Southern will host Arkansas Pine Bluff, Northwestern State is at McNeese, ULM hosts Texas State, Nicholls is at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Southeastern hosts Houston Baptist.

LSU men’s basketball coach Matt McMahon has added one of the stars of his 2021-22 Murray State basketball team to the Tiger roster. Forward KJ Williams was the Oak Valley Conference Player of the year last season.

D-1-baseball-dot-com has its latest projections of the 64-team NCAA tournament field. Included among them are four Louisiana schools, predicting McNeese and Louisiana Tech join LSU in Baton Rouge for an opening regional. The Tigers have made a climb in the rankings as of late, and D1 managing editor Kendall Rogers says they’re in position to host for the 27th time in program history…:
Cut 16 (14) “they’re hosting”

Louisiana Tech is looking to make it back to the postseason for the second consecutive season. Rogers says Tech’s experienced roster makes them the type of team that no one will want to face in the postseason…:
Cut 18 (15) “ upward right now”
D-1 has U-Lafayette 46th in the power rankings and heading to Hattiesburg for a regional.