The 8-3 LSU Tigers and the 7-5 Texas Tech Red Raiders face off tonight in the Texas Bowl in NRG Stadium in Houston. Tiger Rag Assistant Editor James Moran says you can expect this to be a high scoring game with lots of offense…

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The game has an 8PM kickoff and you can watch on ESPN.

Orlando shot just at 55-percent from the field last night as they beat the Pelicans 104-89. The Magic were led by Nik Vucevic’s 28 points and Evan Fournier had 20. Anthony Davis led the Pels with 20 points, followed by Norris Cole’s 17. The Pelicans head back to the Smoothie King Center to host the Los Angeles Clippers on New Year’s Eve.

On the college hardwood, yesterday – Nicholls State dropped to 4-9 as they were manhandled by Houston 76-49. The Cougars held the Colonels to 28-percent shooting from the field and led by as mush as 29 points in the second half. Nicholls has lost six of their last seven heading into their Southland Conference opener against Lamar, Saturday.

Alex Hamilton scored 23 points and added 10 assists as Louisiana Tech blew past Prairie View 77-58. The Bulldogs scored the first 10 points of the game and led by 21 at the half before cruising to victory in the second half. Tech improves to 11-2 and will kick off their Conference USA schedule Saturday against Southern Miss.

Today, Tulane opens American Conference play against Memphis, UNO takes on Blue Mountain College, Centenary hosts Northwestern State, McNeese State faces Jarvis Christian College, and LSU hosts the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.