Tough ending to the season for the Ragin Cajuns men’s basketball team as U-L Lafayette could not hold on to a ten-point lead with 6:44 left and lost to Georgia Southern 82 to 81 in the second round of the Sun Belt Tournament. Jalen Johnson had 21 points in a losing effort. The Cajuns end the season with a 14-and-19 record.

The SEC Tournament starts tomorrow in Nashville and the league office says their focus and expectation is to play the tourney as scheduled despite concerns over the coronavirus. The league says it will have hand sanitizers throughout the arena, the locker rooms, team benches, and even the basketball will be sanitized.

LSU senior Skylar Mays has been named to the Academic All-America team by the College Sports Information Directors of America for a third straight year. While preparing to be a doctor, Mays leads the team in scoring and holds a 3.9 GPA. Mays and the Tigers play in the SEC Tourney on Friday.

The NFL Players Association is giving its members a couple of extra days to vote on a new collective bargaining agreement that calls for a 17-game schedule. The voting window has been extended from Thursday night to Saturday at 10:59 PM central time. Also, there have players who reportedly want to change their vote but have been told they can’t.

The SWAC men’s basketball tournament starts today with quarterfinal action with games on campus. Southern will host Alabama State. The Jaguars have won seven in a row. Grambling will visit Texas Southern.

Louisiana Tech is the three-seed in the Conference USA Tournament and the Bulldogs will play either Marshall or UTEP in Frisco, Texas on Thursday. The Thundering Herd have won six of their last eight, while the Miners have won four in a row. Marshall and UTEP play on Wednesday.

In college baseball, ULM hosts Ole Miss tonight at 6 pm for the start of a two-game midweek series. The Ragin Cajuns are at McNeese, Louisiana Tech hosts Southeastern Louisiana at Ruston High School.