LAFAYETTE — The weather forecast for this weekend’s NCAA regional tournament is far from ideal, with thunderstorms predicted in the area throughout the tournament.
Tournament director John Dugas, Louisiana-Lafayette’s associate athletic director of internal operations, is well aware of the potential problem this weekend, but he’s holding out hope the fickle nature of Louisiana weather fools the prognosticators.
“Obviously it’s a big concern, especially when pretty much all week long it’s been the same 80 percent chance (of rain) on Saturday and Sunday,” Dugas said Wednesday morning. “But the way I look at that, any time they say it that early, I know it’s going to be better than that because they’re always wrong.