Four Louisiana schools make the NCAA baseball tournament field

Louisiana (KPLC) – The state of Louisiana has a robust custom of faculty baseball having not less than one workforce within the NCAA Event every of the previous 10 seasons courting again to 2011. That run continued this season with 4 faculties making the bracket in LSU, UL Lafayette, Louisiana Tech and Southeastern.

Nevertheless, there won’t be a Louisiana-based regional for simply the second time throughout that stretch.

The Tigers of LSU have been chosen as the 2 seed within the Hattiesburg Regional hosted by Southern Miss. The Golden Eagles received the C-USA regular-season title and are joined by third-seeded Kennesaw State and the four-seed, Military.

LSU is making its thirty fourth regional look and its tenth straight. The Tigers will open its match run dealing with Kennesaw State on Friday at 6 p.m.

Louisiana Tech is again within the NCAA Event subject in back-to-back seasons for the primary time since 1987. Its C-USA Event Title despatched the varsity to its tenth regional look in program historical past and the third since 2016.

The second-seeded Bulldogs head to the Austin Regional and can face the No. 3 seed, Dallas Baptist, at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. No. 1 seed Texas will face No. 4 seed Air Power earlier that day.

The UL Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns additionally received their convention match to punch a regional ticket.

The Cajuns are making their seventeenth regional look and first since 2016 this season, opening play Friday at 7 p.m. towards Huge 12 regular-season champion TCU within the Faculty Station Regional. The Cajuns are the regional’s three seed whereas the Horned Frogs are the second-seeded workforce. High-seeded Texas A&M (the fifth nationwide seed) and Summit League Event champion and No. 4 seed, Oral Roberts, will play earlier within the afternoon.

The ultimate Louisiana workforce within the subject is the Southeastern Lions. SLU earned its berth after upsetting McNeese within the Southland’s best-of-three Championship Collection. The Lions return to the NCAA Event subject for the primary time since 2017 and can head to the Auburn Regional.

SLU is the regional’s 4 seed as it is going to face No. 1 Auburn Friday at 6 p.m. Additionally included within the subject is No. 2 UCLA and No. 3 Florida State.

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