INDIANAPOLIS — All 64 teams were announced for the 77th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament during ESPN2's selection show on Monday, including the top 16 national seeds, first-round regional pairings and site assignments.
Each regional field features four teams, playing in a double-elimination format.
LSU (40-21), winners of seven of their last eight, including a 4-1 run in the SEC Tournament before falling short in a failed comeback against top-seed Tennessee (50-11) in the final, will head to the Chapel Hill Regional to play Wofford (41-18) on Friday at 11 a.m.
The winner of that game will face the winner of Long Island (33-23) and host North Carolina (42-13).
LSU has never faced Wofford or LIU and most recently played North Carolina in the 2013 College World Series. The Tigers lost that game 4-2.
The defending national champions have appeared in the CWS 19 times, winning titles in 1991, 1993, 1996-97, 2000, 2009 and last season.
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Two other southeast Louisiana schools will be headed to the NCAA Tournament, with back-to-back American Athletic Conference tournament champion Tulane (35-24) and two-straight Southland champion Nicholls (38-20) will each head to Oregon for the Corvallis Regional.
Tulane will face Oregon State (42-14) on Friday at 8 p.m.
The winner will face the winner of the game between second-seeded UC Irvine (43-12) and third-seeded Nicholls, which will be earlier in the day at 3 p.m.
Conference USA runner-up Louisiana Tech (45-17) will open the tournament against Kansas State (32-24) at the Fayetteville Regional with No. 5-seed and host Arkansas (43-14) and Southeast Missouri State (34-25).
Grambling (26-26), winners of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, will join Louisiana-Lafayette (40-18) in traveling to the Lone Star State for the Bryan-College Station Regional to play host Texas A&M (44-13) and Texas (35-22).
In total, six Louisiana teams earned a 2024 berth.
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Nearby Southern Miss (41-18) also won its second straight Sun Belt Conference tournament title with a win over Georgia Southern on Sunday. The Golden Eagles will travel to Tennessee to face Indiana in the Knoxville Regional with Northern Kentucky and No. 1-seed Tennessee.
The Golden Eagles lead the nation with its eight straight 40-win seasons as well as the program's 22nd consecutive 30-win season, giving them the longest current streak in Division I baseball.
Southern Miss has produced 30 or more victories in 37 of the last 38 seasons.
The 16 regional sites and host teams include:
- Athens, Georgia – Georgia (39-15)
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina – North Carolina (42-13)
- Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (41-15)
- Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (41-14)
- Bryan-College Station, Texas – Texas A&M (44-13)
- Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State (42-14)
- Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (43-14)
- Greenville, North Carolina – East Carolina (43-15)
- Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (50-11)
- Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (40-14)
- Norman, Oklahoma – Oklahoma (37-19)
- Raleigh, North Carolina – NC State (33-20)
- Santa Barbara, California – UC Santa Barbara (42-12)
- Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (40-17)
- Tallahassee, Florida – Florida State (42-15)
- Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (36-21)
All 16 regionals are scheduled for Friday, May 31 to Monday, June 3 (if necessary).
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