Final home stand of the season starts up tonight for the Dunkin’ Dogs.

6 PM tip-off on ESPN+.

Tech is a 5.5-point favorite.

Tech projected 3rd in C-USA:

Diamond Dogs (4-3):

2.28 - @ #4 Ole Miss -- 4 PM first pitch on SECN+

3.1 - @ #4 Ole Miss -- 4 PM first pitch on SECN+

3.3 - vs Northwestern -- 6 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.4 - vs Northwestern -- 2 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.5 - vs Northwestern -- 12 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

Busy week.

Fun little podcast for you guys to listen to, about 30 min:

- Start to the 2023 Baseball season
- Fireworks in Oxford
- Dunkin' Dogs head to the finish line for 2022-2023 season
- Brooke Stoehr has her squad playing great basketball in late March yet again

Give it a listen!

@cwardell03 recaps a crazy, but successful couple of days in Oxford for the ‘Dogs:

Another home weekend for the Diamond Dogs starts up on Friday night.

Friday - 6 PM
Saturday - 2 PM
Sunday - 1 PM

All games on CUSA.tv. Preview later this morning.

Let’s go!!!

Let’s go!!!!!!

3 PM tip-off on Stadium in the final road game of the season.

Middle Tennessee defeated Louisiana Tech by 17 earlier this season in Ruston.

The Blue Raiders are favored by 5.5 points today.

@Harris Downer takes a look back at some stats that stood out this past weekend:

Dunkin' Dogs (13-14, 6-10):

2.23 - @ WKU -- 8 PM tip-off on CBS Sports Network

2.25 - @ Middle Tennessee 3 PM tip-off on Stadium

Lady Techsters (16-10, 9-7):

2.23 - vs WKU -- 6 PM tip-off on CUSA.tv

2.25 -- vs Middle Tennessee -- 1 PM tip-off on ESPN3

Big week for the Lady Techsters. Middle Tennessee and WKU are #1 & #2 in the C-USA standings.

The Recap:

Lady Techsters (9-5):

3.1 - vs Central Arkansas -- 6 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.4 - vs Houston Christian -- 10 AM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.4 - vs U-Mass Lowell -- 12:30 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.5 - vs U-Mass Lowell -- 12:30 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

3.5 - vs Houston Christian -- 3 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

Lady Techsters (7-2):

2.21 - vs LSU -- 6 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

*South Alabama Tournament*

2.25 - vs Tulsa -- 10 AM first pitch

2.25 - vs Mississippi State -- 12:30 PM first pitch

2.26 - vs Furman -- 9 AM first pitch

2.26 - @ South Alabama -- 1:30 PM first pitch

Can you imagine a pitcher pitching 16 innings in one game. Warren Spahn did it at the age of 42.

n his Hall of Fame career, most of it for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Warren Edward Spahn won 363 games, ranking sixth overall; the most for a left-handed pitcher. A seventeen-time All-Star, Spahn’s career included thirteen seasons with twenty or more wins, three ERA titles, two no hitters (at ages 39 and 40), and a World Series championship and Cy Young Award (both in 1957). Career highlights included an epic 16-inning pitching duel on July 2, 1963, at age 42 with 25-year-old Juan Marichal and the San Francisco Giants.

The game was scoreless when it went into extra innings. Five times Giants manager Alvin Dark went to the mound, intending to relieve Marichal and each time Marichal refused. On Dark’s fifth trip, in the 14th inning, Marichal growled, “Do you see that man pitching for the other side? Do you know that man is 42 years old? I’m only 25. If that man is on the mound, nobody is going to take me out of here.” In the bottom of the 16th inning the game was still tied 0–0. With one out, Giants outfielder Willie Mays hit a solo home run, winning the game. Marichal had thrown 227 pitches, Spahn 201, with the latter allowing nine hits and one run.

Diamond Dogs (1-2):

2.20 - vs BYU -- 6 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

2.24 - vs Nicholls -- 6 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

2.25 vs Nicholls -- 2 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

2.26 vs Nicholls -- 1 PM first pitch on CUSA.tv

Mike Silva, former Tech pitching coach, is the head coach at Nicholls and will make his return to Ruston. Colonels have won 2 of first 3 games against Lindenwood this weekend. They'll play a game 4 tomorrow night. They'll also travel to South Alabama on Wednesday night.

The tracker is LIVE! The official transfer portal window for FBS players opens on December 5th.

Tip-off is scheduled for 8 PM on CBS Sports Network tonight.

Tech won the first matchup in OT.

WKU is a 4.5-point favorite.

Brian Johnson has done a really nice job in his first year on the job:

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This will be overkill for a lot of folks so I don’t want to bog down the other thread, but just in case you don’t have Twitter.

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For any of you on this Board in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, as well as anyone outside of the area, are interested in watching some 6-A high school boy's basketball this Friday (02/24), there will be a doubleheader at Moody Coliseum (seating capacity: 7,000) on the campus of SMU.

Of the four teams, all are in Region 1 and are state-ranked with records as follows:

#1 - Lake Highlands (28-3)
#6 - Highland Park (26-6)
#10 - Plano (23-8)
#11 - Plano East (31-4)

Lake Highlands has defeated Highland Park three times in close games at home, on the road, and a neutral court, and they defeated Plano East on a neutral court.

The match-ups on Friday are as follows:

Game 1 @ 6:00 p.m.
Plano East (Home) vs. Lake Highlands (Vis)

Game 2 @ 8:00 p.m.
Highland Park (Home) vs. Plano (Vis)

Tickets are $8.00, and will be honored for both games. To purchase a ticket(s), go to Plano Independent School District Athletic Tickets. Tickets go on sale at 8:00 on Thursday (02/23). Tickets will not be sold at the game.

If anyone plans to attend and has difficulty in purchasing a ticket(s) on-line, give me a call at 469-744-4394 or send a text.

Lake Highlands has the #1 player in the country for the Class of 2024, Tre Johnson (Jr/G/6'6"/180), along with a 6'10" forward committed to Yale, and two flashy guards, a senior (6'1"/170) and a junior (5'10/160) who is ranked #16 out of the top 30 players in Texas in the Class of 2024. The other three teams have some quality players.

Doug Warner is reporting there were shots fired at the Ruston complex and a bullet in the Benton dugout. Have any of y’all from Ruston heard anymore details?