BATON ROUGE, La. -- Members of LSU's 2024 baseball team have departed for destinations around the country to play in summer collegiate leagues.

Twelve months ago, LSU coach Jay Johnson was in the process of making a NCAA tournament run which would end in a national championship.

Obviously, disappointment over the 4-3, ten-inning loss to North Carolina in the championship game of the Chapel Hill Regional still is present. But, an examination of the season reveals that the Tigers’ body of work was about what should have been expected.

TigerBait.com publisher and recruiting analyst Mike Scarborough and Baton Rouge sports talk legend Buddy Songy talk LSU football, recruiting, baseball and more.

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU-North Carolina matchups on Saturday and Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C., were the two most-watched NCAA Baseball Regional games on record, according to ESPN.

LSU has been pushing hard for both class of 2025 wide receivers Kaliq Lockett and Jaime Ffrench. This past weekend both were on campus together for an official visit. Ffrench goes into detail with TigerBait about where things stand.

In the championship game of the Chapel Hill Regional on Monday night, the Tigers were two outs away from a victory over No. 4 national seed North Carolina which would have sent them to a home super-regional series against West Virginia.

LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson spoke with the media following the Tigers Chapel Hill regional final loss to North Carolina, 4-3.

BATON ROUGE – Former LSU All-America offensive guard and Pro Football Hall of Famer Alan Faneca is among 77 players from the Football Bowl Subdivision included on the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced on Monday.