Buy tickets online NEW ORLEANS — Third-seeded Xavier University of Louisiana will play sixth-seeded Southwest (N.M.) at 4:45 p.m. CST Friday in the men’s basketball quarterfinals of the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament at Rapides Parish Coliseum in Alexandria, La. Eight of the RRAC’s 12 teams qualified. The champion will receive an automatic bid to NAIA nationals, which will begin March 15 and conclude March 26. XULA was third seeded a year ago when it upset top-seeded LSU-Shreveport 79-63 in the RRAC Tournament final. It was the third conference tournament championship for the Gold Rush in four years — the…