The state of Louisiana has plenty of college baseball teams bound for postseason play.
Six teams from “The Boot” will be apart in NCAA Regionals this weekend.
The defending National Champion LSU Tigers struggled throughout the early portion of the SEC season. However, they got hot late and rode that momentum to the SEC Tournament Championship game. They enter postseason play with a 40-21 record and will be headed to Chapel Hill where North Carolina, Wofford, and Long Island will be the other teams in their tournament.
The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns used late runs each of the last two years to get to postseason play. This season, they won the Sun Belt regular season title to avoid bubble concerns. They enter regional play with a 40-18 record, and they will head to College Station for the regional hosted by Texas A&M. They are joined by Texas and Grambling.
The Grambling Tigers turned things on in SWAC play, going 18-8. They then took home the SWAC Tournament Championship, securing a regional bid. They bring a 26-26 record to the College Station alongside the Cajuns.
The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs caught fire in the second half of the season. That led them to a Conference-USA regular season title. They hold a 45-17 record and will head to Fayetteville. Arkansas hosts that regional, while Kansas State and Southeast Missouri State make up the rest of the field.
The Nicholls Colonels won their second consecutive Southland Tournament Championship to head back to the regionals once again. They did it by beating the McNeese Cowboys in the championship game. They bring a 38-20 record to the Corvallis Regional, where Oregon State hosts the Colonels, UC Irvine, and Tulane.
Speaking of Tulane, they needed an unlikely run to the American Tournament title last year to make a regional. This year, they had a much better season but still needed a tournament championship, which they secured for the second straight year. They are 35-24, and join Nicholls in Corvallis.
The double-elimination regional tournaments will begin on Friday and go through the weekend.