Another college basketball season has come and gone, and Louisiana once again hardly noticed.
Thank heaven for the Grambling State, LSU and Nicholls State women's basketball teams. They are the state's lone reps in the NCAA tournament.
Not one of the state's 12 Division I-playing basketball teams qualified for the men's NCAA Tournament.
Championship week was a disastrous dud for Louisiana men's programs. Stephen F. Austin eliminated both Southland Conference co-champions, Nicholls State and Southeastern Louisiana. No. 4 seed Texas-Arlington upset top-seeded Louisiana-Lafayette in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Tournament. And LSU and Tulane bowed out meekly in the SEC and American Athletic Conference tourneys, respectively.