LSU will welcome some very highly rated recruits to campus this weekend, highlighted by Bastrop WR Rueben Randle. Fourteen players will be joining Randle, including:

DE Sam Montgomery
WR Kendall Kelly
DE Bennie Logan
RB Trent Richardson
RB Michael Ford
DB Janzen Jackson
DL Josh Downs

LSU currently has the No. 1 class according to some recruiting publications.

In LSU Basketball news, only 1,700 tickets remain for LSU’s game against No. 15 Xavier in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Saturday night and less than a thousand remain for the Tigers’ game against Arkansas next Saturday, a contest that has been designated as the celebration of 100 years of LSU Basketball, according to LSUsports.net.

Tip-off for Saturday's matchup with Xavier will be at 7:00pm CT. The game will be televised on ESPN2.

TD.com Hoops expert "Stromile Swift" breaks down the game in this comprehensive preview.

Any fan of LSU Basketball should read this thread on the Tiger Rant, which asks fans to share their favorite LSU Basketball memories.

In Tiger Band news, LSU is moving forward with plans for a new $10 million "Tiger Band Complex" after design plans were approved Thursday by the LSU Board of Supervisors. Construction could begin as soon as September for a late 2010 opening.

Finally, in music news, many of you know that We Landed On The Moon! is the official rock band of TigerDroppings.com. And this article in the Advocate features the band's lead singer, Melissa Eccles, and discusses their new CD, These Little Wars, which was released last month.

WLOTM! is having a CD release show tonight at the Spanish Moon. Click here for more info about the band.

That's all for today...

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