LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson suspended for SEC tournament final vs. Tennesssee per the ESPN broadcast

LSU is still alive in Hoover, playing in the SEC Baseball Tournament championship game on Sunday against Tennessee. Head coach Jay Johnson has gone to bat for his team, proclaiming there is nobody better in college baseball than the Tigers right now. Unfortunately, Johnson will not be in the dugout for the title game and will instead serve a suspension.

“I’m told that Jay Johnson is not eligible to coach tomorrow,” SEC Network’s Tom Hart said during the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game. “So, he’ll have to sit out the game due to suspension. For being ejected.”

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UPDATE — Jay Johnson not suspended for SEC Baseball Tournament championship game

Once wrapping up his broadcast from Hoover, Hart took to Twitter and corrected himself about Johnson’s status.

Johnson will be able to coach in Sunday’s game against Tennessee. A big sigh of relief for the Tigers as their head coach will be in the dugout for the season’s biggest game.

“I’m told that, despite his ejection in the semifinals, Jay Johnson will be eligible to coach in the championship game tomorrow,” Hart said via X.

Johnson was ejected from LSU’s game against South Carolina on Saturday after one of the more unique sequences in SEC Baseball Tournament history. South Carolina was awarded a run in the top of the 10th inning despite being thrown out at home on an attempted steal. The umpires determined there was interference at the plate, causing for a balk to be called.

Folks in purple and gold were not too thrilled with the decision, potentially being the game-winning run. Johnson went out there to get an explanation and when he retaliated, the ejection occurred.

LSU ended up winning the game on a walk-off home run meaning the controversial play wound up not mattering too much.

From the moment Johnson was ejected, potentially being suspended entered his mind. Instead of sticking around the argue a bit more, he decided to leave the field and avoid any kind of further penalties from the SEC offices in Birmingham.

“No, I’m not messing with anything,” Johnson said during a postgame interview with SEC Network. “We got too much important baseball coming tomorrow and the NCAA Tournament… The umpire crew, once I was ejected, it was like ‘You got to leave right now. Otherwise, there’s going to be a suspension.’ We fought too hard to get to this position. So I basically walked off the field.”