LSU baseball finishes up the home portion of its schedule tonight against Northwestern State before heading to Nashville this weekend to face Vanderbilt. The Tigers have ridden a roller coaster in the rankings all season. The pressure to win in Baton Rouge is always there, and it has only intensified as LSU approaches 13 years since its last national championship. Coach Jay Johnson says he gets it, and he embraces it…otherwise he never would have accepted the job.
Cut 18 (20) “…would have that.”
The Tigers and Demons start play at 6:30 pm.
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In Lafayette, U-L begins its final homestand of the season with a midweek matchup with Nicholls. Surging Southern takes on UNO.
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The New Orleans Pelicans have a 99.6 percent chance of getting a top ten selection in tonight’s NBA Draft Lottery. Because the Lakers failed to make the postseason, their pick goes back to the Pels. While the most likely scenarios have the pick falling around the eighth or ninth spots, New Orleans does have a 26 percent chance of getting a selection in the top four.
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Matt McMahon has completely remade the LSU basketball roster in a matter of weeks. After essentially having no players six weeks ago, he completed his 2022 class with the signing of 6-10 center, Shawn Phillips Jr., out of Arizona. McMahon’s class was ranked 17th nationally before the addition of Phillips.
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LSU’s season opener against Florida State will be broadcast in prime time, as announced by ABC Sports. Game time for the Allstate Louisiana Kickoff at Caesars Superdome is scheduled for 6:30 pm on September 4.
McNeese racked up in the Southland Conference baseball awards. Payton Harden was named player of the year, with his coach, Jay Hill named coach of the year and teammates Grant Rogers and Cameron Foster collected pitcher of the year and reliever of the year honors respectively.