LSU vs. ULL in the NIT 3/14/18

So I attended the game and had a really good time!

I went with my brother who is a UL fan and we both enjoyed ourselves. It had been many years since I had been at the PMAC and it is looking pretty good. The video boards look great and the court looked good. It still needs some work and updating but it's getting there.

The game was close the whole time. LSU led pretty much the whole way but UL would close the gap to 2 or 3 and the LSU would pull away again. It got kind of testy at the end but the Tigers pulled it out.

There were a lot of Cajun fans there and I hope all had a good time. I heard a few obnoxious tiger fans talking bad about Lafayette which really p'd me off as I am from Lafayette but graduated from LSU. So I take exception to idiots talking down my hometown to get a rib at UL.

Now on the other hand, I though UL coach Marlin said some dumb and frankly childish things about LSU and it got coach Wade fired up. You shouldn't get all flustered when you insult your opponent before the game and then they get excited when they beat you. He started with the snarky comments and whining about the seeding. The thing is he was probably right that they should have been seeded higher but that is not LSU's fault. That was the NIT not LSU. His comments lit a fire under LSU and it came back and bit him.

That said I would like to see these two teams play more often but I don't see it happening now with the way both coaches have acted. I hope I am wrong though. It would be good for college basketball if they played every few years IMO.