The LSU men’s basketball team is at Arkansas tonight in a game that is a must have for the Tigers who are on the wrong side of the bubble when it comes to making the NCAA Tournament. LSU will play the game without senior shooting guard Keith Hornsby, who re-aggravated a sports hernia injury that forced him to miss several games earlier this season. Coach Johnny Jones on Hornsby’s absence…:
Cut 16 (15) “we’ll miss him“
Tipoff is at 6pm.

Weekly honors from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association named both ULM’s Nick Coppola and Louisiana Tech’s Alex Hamilton the men’s basketball co-players of the week. Both players helped lead their respective teams in a pair of conference road games.

The Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation is reportedly putting in a bid to host the SEC baseball tournament, which has been held in Hoover, Alabama for the past 18 years. The legislature isn’t wasting time on advancing a bill that would allow a special fund that draws in a portion of excise and sales taxes generated by major events to be paid as an incentive for holding big high-profile action here.

In more college hoops, McNeese fell to Central Arkansas last night 88-82. Northwestern State clobbered Nicholls State 81-67. Today UNO plays at Southeastern. Southern fell to Alabama A&M 78-66.

Coming off the best game of his career Sunday when Anthony Davis put up a whopping 59 points, the power forward and the Pelicans return to action tonight at Washington.

In college baseball, Southern moved their home opener to tomorrow due to weather. On the schedule today is LeMoyne Owen at Grambling. ULM is at Southern Miss. Louisiana Tech hosts Little Rock. Northwestern State hosts Sacramento State. Alabama A&M is at Tulane and McNeese State travels to Houston..