The Louisiana High School Athletic Association has voted to split the playoffs in the sports of basketball, baseball and softball, just like they’ve done for football the last three years. The vote was 182-to-120. The split will go into effect next school year and the LHSAA will have a lot of work to do to figure out how this will work logisitically. There’s also concern that this could result in a complete separation, where private schools form their own association.

The LSU Board of Supervisors athletic committee approves changes to its statue policy, which could clear the way for a Pete Maravich statue in front of the building that’s named after him. For a life size statue to be erected on LSU’s campus of a former athlete that person must have graduated from the school. The board is looking to eliminate graduation provision and require the former student athlete to achieve at least 100 credit hours or attend school for three years.

LSU takes on number one ranked Oklahoma in the PMAC tomorrow as part of the Big 12-SEC challenge. It’s also a match-up of two of the best players in college basketball, LSU’s Ben Simmons and Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield. Coach Johnny Jones says tomorrow’s game is much bigger than these two stars facing each other…
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Tip-off is at four o’ clock.

In college basketball last night….Shawn Long had a double-double, 19 points and 14 rebounds as the Cajuns easily defeated Texas State 80-54. ULM hit 15 three-pointers in a 99-88 win over UT Arlington at Fant-Ewing Coliseum. And senior Alex Hamilton ahd a double-double as he scored 18 points and dished out 11 assists in Louisiana Tech’s 85-75 win over Texas San Antonio.