The only school in Louisiana to make it to the NCAA tournament is coming back home. Southern University had one of their worst shooting games in the 59-55 loss to Holy Cross Thursday evening. Southern finished the season with a 22-13 record.

UL-Lafayette is still alive as the Cajuns hit 11 of their final 18 shots from 3-point range, pick up a 96-72 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

The U.S. Basketball Writers Association named LSU’s Ben Simmons its USBWA’s freshman of the year.

The New Orleans Saints announce they’ve re-signed backup quarterback Luke McCown to a two-year contract and free agent linebacker Nate Stupar to three years. In 2015, McCown played in 8 games with one start and completed 32-39 passes. Stupar played for the Falcons last season.

In the NBA, the Pelicans snapped a four game losing streak as New Orleans got the win over the Sacramento Kings 123-108.

Schools in the LHSAA are not satisfied with the current state of affairs in Louisiana, so Paul Rainwater and others are proposing a new option, the Louisiana High School Sports Cooperative, or LHSSC. Rainwater says it will take 60 schools’ commitments to form a new organization, which would be open to both public and private schools. He says this group would only have an initial fee:
Cut 10 (09) “annual basis”
Rainwater would be the Executive Director.

The LSU baseball team had an easy time at the Box last night against UNO, picking up a 9-4 win. The Tigers improve to 13-3 on the year and begin conference play on Friday against Alabama.

In Thibodaux, Nicholls State put forth tough effort over Southern as a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Colonels to a 9-8 win over the Jags.

Grambling fell to Arkansas 3-2. UL-Lafayette trounced Northwestern State 10-1. ULM got a 12-4 win over McNeese State. Louisiana Tech beat Alcorn State 15-4.