The McNeese men’s basketball team will head to Salt Lake City to face Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament. The game will be played Thursday night. The Cowboys are a 12-seed while the Bulldogs are the fifth seed. The Zags are considered the best mid-major program in the country and Coach Will Wade is interested to see how his team stacks up…
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Grambling State is in the Men’s Basketball Tournament for the first time ever as they’ll face Montana State on Wednesday night in a First Four matchup in Dayton, Ohio. The winner of that game will play top seeded Purdue on Friday in Indianapolis.

Rough weekend for the second ranked LSU baseball team in Starkville. The Tigers dropped two of three to Mississippi State losing the series finale 15-5. LSU pitching gave up 33 runs. The Tigers will host La Tech on Tuesday. The Bulldogs swept Northwestern State.

The LSU Lady Tigers are a three-seed in the Albany Two Regional. Iowa and UCLA are the top two seeds.

LSU will host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. They will face Rice, who won the American Athletic Conference Tournament as a ten-seed. If the Lady Tigers defeat the Owls, they’ll play either sixth-seeded Louisville or 11th-seeded Middle Tennessee who easily won the Conference USA regular season and conference titles. Louisville is LSU point guard Hailey Van Lith’s former team. Coach Kim Mulkey expects Van Lith will handle it well
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LSU will play Rice at 3 PM on Friday at the PMAC.

The ULM and Grambling State Women’s Basketball teams are in the WNIT Tournament. They will find out their opponents later today.

The second ranked LSU softball team lost its first game of the season last night falling to Ole Miss five to two. U-L Lafayette baseball won two of three at Arkansas State, ULM lost its series with Troy.