6:45 LRN Sportscast

In front of 15-thousand fans wearing white t-shirts the third ranked LSU women’s basketball team topped the once mighty Tennessee Volunteers 76-68 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center last night. The 15-thousand fans is the largest for the arena since it was reconfigured in 2005. Alexis Morris had a career-high 31 points and Angel Reese had her 21st straight double-double, 18 points and 17 rebounds. Reese says she’s never played in an atmosphere like that…
cut 22 (22) “…support me”
LSU is 21-and-0 and will host Georgia on Thursday night.

LSU has started its first official collective called Bayou Traditions, which will open more opportunities for athletes to get paid through name, image, and likeness deals. Bayou Traditions President Brent Cunningham says fans can receive certain perks for supporting the collective financially and they can make direct payments to a specific sport…
Cut 25 (10) “…their program”
For more information go to “BayouTraditionsCollective.com

John Hartwell was introduced as ULM’s new athletic director yesterday. Hartwell takes over an athletic budget that’s one of the smallest among F-B-S playing schools, but he doesn’t want the coaches to use that as an excuse…
cut 29 (15) “…great things here”
Hartwell was previously an athletics director at Utah State and Troy.