The LSU baseball team stands in a strong position to be the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA baseball tournament headed into the final month of the regular season.
The SEC dominates with six of the top eight national seeds in the first projections of the season for The Times-Picayune/The Advocate. While it seems unlikely that the conference will get that many national seeds when the full field is announced in late May, it’s hard to deny that the SEC is far and away the best league at this point of the season.
The Tigers (32-7) have a firm grasp on the No. 1 overall seed, but SEC foe South Carolina isn’t that far off the mark at 34-6 coming off a sweep of Florida. LSU and South Carolina split the series 1-1 in Columbia earlier this month after the third game was canceled because of weather.
Dallas Baptist, which is in its first season in Conference USA, checks in as the 16th overall seed thanks to a dominant showing in April so far. The Patriots have won 14 straight games in April to push their record to 31-9.
Southern Miss, which has an early-season sweep of Dallas Baptist, is another a contender to host a regional, but the Eagles lost two of three games at Coastal Carolina and three of four games last week. Miami (25-15) also has a strong case to make as a regional host, but the Hurricanes may been lapped this week by Duke, which improved to 27-12 with a three-game sweep of Louisville.
BATON ROUGE
1. LSU* (1)
2. Notre Dame
3. Old Dominion
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