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LSU Baseball earns No. 3 seed, double bye in SEC Tournament

Jerit Roser Twitterby:Jerit Roser•05/17/25•

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Tigers shortstop Steven Milam 4 homerun as the LSU Tigers take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. Sunday, May 11, 2025.

LSU will enjoy five days of rest before opening the SEC baseball tournament Friday in the quarterfinals at the Hoover Metropolitan Complex in Hoover, Ala.

The Tigers (42-13, 19-11) wrapped up the regular season Saturday afternoon with a series win against South Carolina (28-28, 6-24) to finish No. 3 in the conference and earn a double-bye in the postseason bracket.

Coach Jay Johnson’s group will await either No. 6 seed Auburn (38-17, 17-13), No. 11 seed Mississippi State (34-20, 15-15) or No. 14 seed Texas A&M (28-25, 11-19). The Bulldogs and Aggies will play Tuesday, with the winner facing Auburn on Wednesday.

“Everybody will be happy — the coaches are happy, the players are happy, the players’ girlfriends are happy,” Johnson told reporters Saturday of the rest the team will now enjoy. “And I’m happy too, because it allows us to get some good work in this week. We’ll take tomorrow off. Monday we’ll have some small group work. We’ve got some pitchers that need to throw to live hitters and some guys that need at-bats, so we’ll play a simulated game. Tuesday and Wednesday morning we’ll have more traditional practices. Then we’ll bus over Wednesday afternoon and practice in Hoover on Thursday. That’s the rough schedule.”

The single elimination tournament will run through Sunday with a 2 p.m. championship game.

LSU’s No. 3 seed marks its second time in three years earning that position in the bracket, its highest since a No. 2 seed in 2017 — the program’s last time winning the title.

Texas (42-11, 22-8) and Arkansas (43-12, 20-10) earned the top two seeds in this year’s event.

“Very proud of the team,” Johnson said. “I think we won seven of the 10 series. I’m not sure how many teams actually did that — I think going into the weekend it was maybe only Texas and Auburn were the other two. Not sure how that changed this weekend, but very proud of that. I mean, it’s hard. That’s what our league is — very difficult. And to be consistent, I thought we dealt with success well. I thought we dealt with adversity well.”

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