LSU baseball has officially qualified for the NCAA Division I Tournament, as announced on the NCAA selection show broadcast on ESPN Monday morning.
The Tigers will be a two-seed in the Chapel Hill regional hosted by No. 4 overall seed North Carolina.
Also in the regional are Wofford, the Southern Conference champions, and Long Island, the Northeast Conference champions.
LSU will begin regional play on Friday against Wofford in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The regionals are a double-elimination tournament, and the champion of the Norman regional will go on to a best-of-three series between the Tucson regional winner hosted by No. 13 Arizona.
The winner of that series will make its way to the eight-team College World Series.
The Tigers closed the season strong with a sweep over Ole Miss in the final regular season series, and then made it all the way to the Southeastern Conference Tournament finals where they fell to No. 1 Tennessee.
That final hot streak made the case for an LSU team that many thought were seemingly on the bubble to be firmly in the field.
Other SEC teams that had their names called for the tournament were Tennessee, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 5 Arkansas, No. 7 Georgia, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Florida and Alabama.
The SEC’s 11 teams in the tournament field set a record for the most ever qualified from a single conference.
Louisiana also had several teams represented in the field, as Grambling State, Nicholls, Louisiana Tech, Tulane and UL-Lafayette all qualified.
