| Rice is about as basic as food gets. But a two-home run, five RBI game? Well, that's a delicacy to be savored, isn't it? LSU bashed Rice 16-4 Wednesday night in the first of the Tigers' four games in Houston this week. The Tigers only had 11 hits, but the Owls were in a generous mood with walks (10) and hit batters (five) galore. And the aforementioned two homers from Brady Neal. The second one, a three-run blast in the seventh, was a mammoth shot off the top of the Reckling Park scoreboard. "I've been seeing it well," Neal told our Koki Riley afterward. Oh, is that so, Roy Hobbs? The Tigers have Thursday off for some shopping at the Galleria before opening their three-game set at the Astros' Minute Maid Park on Friday with a game against Texas. As always, we will have all the coverage of every game. Can it be the last road game for the LSU women's basketball team already? It is, as the Tigers travel to Georgia for an 8 p.m. tipoff Thursday. Will it be the last regular-season road game as Tigers for LSU stars Angel Reese and Hailey Van Lith? Our Reed Darcey examines all the possibilities and tries to read the clues of what we've gotten from and about this dynamic duo lately. We've also got an update on LSU's NCAA Tournament info and an update on Caitlin Clark's climb up the record book with her prolific scoring. By the way, she will almost certainly end up scoring more points than LSU great Pete Maravich: he had 3,667 and she has 3,650. But there is to this writer's knowledge no combined scoring record kept by the NCAA. He's still the Division I men's career record holder and she is already the women's. I doubt anyone will leave it at that, but there it is. Speaking of basketball, your friendly neighborhood sports columnist has some ruminations on a possible new LSU basketball arena, the decision to move Harold Perkins back to inside linebacker, sloppy scheduling and a golf tidbit. You know there has to be a golf tidbit. Men's basketball is also hitting the road after Tuesday's wild and dramatic 67-66 win over Georgia, LSU's third one-point win in an 11-day span. The Tigers are heading to Vanderbilt where they'll play Saturday, trying to win enough to at least sew up an NIT berth. And finally, we've got some odds on whether or not Jayden Daniels will go in the top three picks of this year's NFL draft. Thanks as ever for reading and subscribing, folks. You are like Pete Maravich to us. Or Caitlin Clark. Or both. Heck, whatever gets you to keep reading. Later, Scott Rabalais | 
