Starting with the 2016-17 school year, split playoffs will expand from football to high school basketball, baseball and softball. That’s the result of a vote of high school principals who attended the LHSAA convention. 60-percent of them voted for it. LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine says he’s heard from many who are against a further expansion of the split…
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The vote came after heated discussion from supporters and opponents of the proposal.

The LSU Board of Supervisors athletic committee approves changes to its statue rules that would allow a likeness of Pete Maravich to be errected on campus. Currently statues aren’t allowed of people who didn’t graduate from LSU. But Board member Scott Angelle says it’s terrible they actually have to debate this issue…:
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A couple of steps still need to be taken before this becomes reality.

The LSU men’s basketball team hosts number one ranked Oklahoma in the PMAC tomorrow night. The Sooners are 17-2 and they are led by Buddy Hield, who is averaging nearly 26 points a game. Hield is shooting 52-percent from three-point land, but Tigers coach Johnny Jones says Oklahoma has more than one long-range shooter…
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Oklahoma is averaging 86 points a game. Tip-off is at 4 PM.

In other action on Saturday…the Ragin Cajuns will host Texas Arlington at 4:15, ULM takes on Texas State, Southeastern is at Northwestern, Nicholls visits Incarnate Word, McNeese is at UNO, Grambling travels to Arkansas Pine Bluff. And in the NBA the Pelcians will take on the Brooklyn Nets.