Will Wade’s LSU men’s basketball team is close to completing an astonishing turn around less than a year after the Tigers bottomed out at 10-21 last year. A win tonight versus Vanderbilt would give LSU 16 victories and guarantee a winning record for this season.
Cut 16 (15) “months ago.”
The tigers host Vanderbilt tonight at the P-mack. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m.
The lady Tigers basketball team is ranked 24th in the Associated Press poll. That’s the first time in the top 25 in 4 years. Coach Nikki Fargas says she appreciates the recognition but they realize they have a lot of hard work to do.
After losing the opening series to Notre Dame, LSU fell in all four major polls. They are ranked anywhere from 15th by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper to 23rd by D-1-baseball-dot-com. The Fighting Irish outplayed LSU during the weekend handing the Tigers their first opening weekend series loss since 1999 against Texas. Coach Paul Mainieri says this is just the start of a long season….
cut 20 (13) “….this weekend”
LSU will host UNO Wednesday and then the Longhorns come to the Box for a weekend three game series.
McNeese takes on Louisiana Tech; Northwestern is at ULM; Jackson State is at UNO and Alcorn is at Southeastern tonight.