.....I grew up in Detroit and when I was a kid I saw Charley Lau play. He broke in with the Tigers in the late 50's. I was surprised as anyone when he became a hitting guru. I also saw the last homer Ted Williams hit at Tiger Stadium.

In their favor, they finished the regular season in a 3-way tie for 1st place in the Sunbelt. Not in their favor is a NET ranking of 186. After the NCAA women's tournament gets its 64 teams, the WNIT gets 64 teams. 32 of those WNIT bids are automatic qualifiers consisting of the highest-seeded or ranked team in each conference. That leaves Southern Miss tied with Texas State as far as conference standing. My best guess is that Texas state will get the automatic WNIT bid base on being the #2 seed in the conference tournament, winning all 3 games vs Southern Miss, and having a higher NET ranking of 150. After that, there are 32 at-large bids left for the WNIT and the 8-team WBI to be played in Lexington, KY.

If Coach Creel’s house got tp’d last night?

A friend said they witnessed someone favoring Heath buying a shopping cart full of cheap toilet paper last night…..

It will be put down after Spring practice. Not sure what the design will be, but Hall did get to be in on the designing process. Will be interested to see how it looks.

Game is on ESPN Plus Tueseay at 6:30 p.m.

Updated @ 10:45 p.m.

Conference USA and the Sunbelt both disrespected by being looked over in the NCAA tournament. FAU was given a 9 seed when they could've gone as high as a 6 seed. Probably the biggest winner in the NIT was Youngstown State as they will be the hosting their biggest opponent ever with Oklahoma State.

They are just not a good hitting team.

We met four different groups of SOUTHERN MISS fans. I was the only one we with a USM t-shirt. SMTTT!

I have a few pretty cool items, but here are my favorites......

1. A few days after I got home from the hospital from losing my leg, I recieved a signed football from the team. Coach Hop signed it and wrote a very nice and kind message on it. That football will always be special to me.

2. I have a Favre autographed mini helmet that was a special limited edition from the year they beat FSU in the Gator Bowl.

What are your favorite items or memorabilia from USM?

....time to end the Tyler Martin experiment. It ain't working too well.

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They are asking for no one to enter the park right now. I guess they think they might can get the game in. Maybe after 2 but we shall see.

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They took 2 of 3 from Auburn this weekend (played double header today). Not sure whether we will get our game in tomorrow but they better be ready to play Tuesday night.

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Hoping we can carry the momentum into tomorrow's rubber match. The game has been moved to 11:00 AM due to weather concerns.

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Appreciate any suggestions for Sunday evening dinner in Biloxi area. Going to weekend baseball games at The Pete and then head to Beau Rivage on Sunday for anniversary get away. Thanks in advance.

or are they still off?

Cheers to the fighting red Lafayettes!

After trailing South Alabama by 4 at the half, they rally to win 71-66.

Cajuns finish 26-7 before they make their run in the NCAA.

Just a free word of advice if anyone wants to make the trek to Jonesboro for the game in September. Since my wife is an ASU grad we will possible go, so I made reservations at the Embassy Suites. This hotel is much like our location for the Indigo Hotel, in that you can easily walk to the stadium from the hotel. Rates run around $170. So if you are thinking of going you might want to go ahead and book a room as you can always cancel unless you do the $149 rate which is no cancel and pay up front. Newer hotel which we stay in when we visit family in the area.