At the SEC Baseball Tournament today, 14th seeded Texas A-and-M blanked Mississippi State nine to nothing. The Aggies need an impressive in the SEC Tourney to have a shot at making the NCAA Tournament. A&M will play Auburn tomorrow and the winner of that game plays LSU on Friday night.
LSU baseball is ranked number one in all of the polls but have they done enough to be a Top 8 National seed, which puts them in position to host a Super Regional if they win their Regional. But LSU is ranked eighth in the RPI which is a metric the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee relies on when determining seeding. LSU Pitcher Kade Anderson believes the Tigers should be a Top 8 national seed…
Cut 19 (19) “…we will be ready”
In college baseball tournament action tonight…Louisiana Tech will play Jacksonville State in the opening round of the Conference USA Tournament. Grambling plays Arkansas Pine Bluff. Southern lost earlier today to Florida A-and-M by the score of nine to one. The Ragin Cajuns will match up with Marshall in the Sun Belt Tournament.
KNOE-TV’s Aaron Dietrich is reporting former LSU and Northeast Louisiana baseball coach Smoke Laval is interested in returning to Monroe to be next head coach of the ULM Warhawks.
At the state capitol, the Louisiana House has approved a bill that increases the tax on online sports betting operators. A portion of the additional revenue created will go to Division one athletic programs in the state, two million dollars to each. Piper Hutchinson with the Louisiana Illuminator says the state has nothing to lose by raising the only sports betting tax rate…
Cut 15 (11) “….not the same”