A couple of big signings for LSU hoops. Last season’s Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, KJ Williams, joins Matt McMahon after transferring from Murray State. He averaged 18 points and eight rebounds per game for the Racers last season.

And Kim Mulkey scores another major win, as All-American Angel Reese heads to Baton Rouge after two seasons at Maryland. Last season, she became the first Maryland player since 1975 to average a double-double, with nearly 18 points and 11 rebounds per game.

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The final weeks of the college baseball season are here, with important series taking place this weekend for a number of teams. LSU is in Tuscaloosa facing Alabama as the Tigers look to inch closer to Arkansas in the SEC West standings, and Tulane welcomes Cincinnati in the American. Texas State visits UL-Monroe, while U-L hosts UT-Arlington in the Sun Belt. In the Southland, Nicholls travels to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State and McNeese square off in Lake Charles, while UNO hosts Incarnate Word. Southern stays home to face Pine Bluff, and Grambling goes west to play Prairie View in the SWAC.

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D-1-baseball-dot-com has its latest projections of the 64-team NCAA tournament field. LSU is one of four teams expected to make the cut from Louisiana. Managing editor Kendall Rogers says that if the pitching can continue to support the Tigers’ offense, LSU could go far.

Cut 17 (16) “…good enough.”

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Over in Lafayette, the Ragin Cajuns haven’t been to the tournament since 2015. Their 25-17 record doesn’t jump off the page, but U-L has won 11 of its last 14 games, including six straight series in the Sun Belt.

Cut 19 (15) “…some trouble.”

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