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McNeese named Small School Team of the Year

• By: Matthew Bonnette

Loyola joins Xavier in NAIA men’s national tournament

• March 12, 2020
• By Press Release

The Loyola Wolf Pack are back in the NAIA National Championship tournament after earning 23 wins this season and a runner-up finish in the SSAC tournament.

No. 5 Georgia Southern, No. 3 Texas State move on to Sun Belt Men’s Basketball Championship Semifinals

• March 12, 2020
• By Scottie Rodgers

Redshirt junior guard Quan Jackson scored 19, senior forward Isaiah Crawley posted his 10th career double-double and Georgia Southern held Georgia State to 15 percent shooting from three-point range on its way to defeating the Panthers 81-62 Wednesday night in the GSU Sports Arena in the quarterfinals of the 2020 Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Championship.

McNeese bows out of SLC tourney following loss to Lamar

• March 11, 2020
• By Matthew Bonnette

Lamar rolled off a 21-3 run in the final eight minutes of the first half to take a 13-point lead into the break then held off any kind of McNeese in the second half to cruise to an 80-59 win in the first round of the 2020 Hercules Tires Southland Conference Basketball Tournament on Wednesday night.

Gold Rush earn No. 3 seed, No. 10 ranking and will play Clarke (Iowa) the morning of March 18

• March 11, 2020
• By Ed Cassiere

Xavier University of Louisiana men’s basketball, an automatic qualifier for next week’s NAIA Division I National Championship tournament, will play Clarke University in the opening round at 10:45 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, March 18, at Municipal Arena (formerly Municipal Auditorium) in Kansas City, Mo.

Northwestern State dominates after rough start to win first-round SLC Tournament game

• March 11, 2020
• By Matt Vines

Forget that no Northwestern State player has ever played in a Southland Conference Tournament as the Demons were making their first trip since 2014-15.

Women’s Final Four, other local related sports cancel events, restrict fans in wake of COVID-19 pandemic

• March 11, 2020
• By Lenny Vangilder

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting sports in the New Orleans area.

Lady Techsters upset UAB to open C-USA tourney

• March 11, 2020
• By Malcolm Butler

It was an all too familiar scenario for Louisiana Tech heading down the stretch in the final minutes of the opening round of the 2020 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Basketball Tournament.

2020 Hercules Tires Southland Women’s Basketball Tournament begins Thursday

• March 11, 2020
• By Zack Chavez

Postseason play gets underway Thursday at Leonard E. Merrell Center in Katy, Texas for the 2020 Hercules Tires Southland Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament. Opening-round games begin at 11 a.m. CT with No. 5 New Orleans taking on No. 8 Southeastern Louisiana.

Tulane faces UConn in AAC Men’s Basketball Championship First Round

• March 11, 2020
• By Adam Miller

Seeded 12th, the Tulane men’s basketball team hosts No. 5 seed UConn in the first round of the 2020 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Championship on Thursday, March 12 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

Cajuns, Mavs score first-round wins in Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Championship

• March 11, 2020
• By Scottie Rodgers

No. 4 Louisiana jumped out to a 27-15 lead after one quarter on No. 9 Georgia Southern as the Ragin’ Cajuns advanced to the Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Championship quarterfinals with a 81-64 wi.