11:40 LRN Sportscast

The road to another national championship for the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team looks difficult as they are a 3-seed in a region that features top-seeded Iowa and second-seeded UCLA. Coach Kim Mulkey’s team beat Iowa in the national title game last year and UCLA holds its opponents to 60 points a game…
Cut 16 (09) “..at home”
LSU will host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. They will face Rice at 3 PM. If the Lady Tigers defeat the Owls, they’ll play either sixth-seeded Louisville or 11th-seeded Middle Tennessee.

Rough weekend for the LSU baseball team in Starkville as Mississippi State pounded Tigers pitching in the SEC series opener. LSU gave up 33 runs as they dropped two of three. The Tigers will host La Tech tomorrow night.

The Bulldogs swept a series from Northwestern State this past weekend. U-L Lafayette baseball won two of three at Arkansas State, ULM lost its series with Troy.

The second ranked LSU softball team lost its first game of the season last night falling to Ole Miss five to two.

For the first time in school history, the Grambling State men’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament. They received an automatic bid on Saturday when they defeated Texas Southern in the SWAC Tournament. The Tigers will play Montana State on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio.

McNeese is the 12th seed in the Midwest Region and will face 5th seeded Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The game will be played on Thursday night at 6:25 in Salt Lake City. Coach Will Wade has led the Cowboys to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002 and they’ll play a Gonzaga team ranked 17th in the AP poll…
Cut 19 (14) “….get there”

LSU is in the N-I-T. The Tigers will host North Texas tomorrow night at the PMAC.