LSU to host NCAA baseball regional as one of 16 host sites
BATON ROUGE, La. – The NCAA announced Sunday night that LSU will serve as one of 16 host sites for an NCAA Baseball Regional.
The four-team, double-elimination regional at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field will begin on Friday. The matchups and starting times for the Baton Rouge Regional and the entire 64-team field will be announced at 11 a.m. CT Monday on ESPN2.
LSU is playing host to an NCAA Regional for the 27th time and for the first time since 2019.
Below is ticket information for the 2023 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional:
The deadline for LSU Baseball season ticket holders to place orders NCAA Regional tickets was Friday, May 26, at 5 p.m. CT.
Season ticket holders who would still like to place orders for NCAA Regional tickets must contact the LSU Athletics ticket office by phone on Monday at (225) 578-2184 or (800) 960-8587. The ticket office is open on Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT.
If tickets are available, the general public sale for All-Session regional tickets will begin Thursday, June 1, at 9 a.m. Any available tickets will be available online at www.LSUTIX.net.
If tickets are available, Individual-Session regional tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. CT on Friday, June 2, online at www.LSUTIX.net.
Team TAF members who have joined by Tuesday, May 30, will have access to a pre-sale for tickets prior to the general public sale. For information on becoming a Team TAF member and to donate now, please visit - https://www.lsutaf.org/membership.
The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records are as follows:
Auburn, Alabama – Auburn (34-21-1)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – LSU (43-15)
Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (45-12)
Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (43-17)
Columbia, South Carolina – South Carolina (39-19)
Conway, South Carolina – Coastal Carolina (39-19)
Coral Gables, Florida – Miami (FL) (40-19)
Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (41-16)
Gainesville, Florida – Florida (44-14)
Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (36-18)
Nashville, Tennessee – Vanderbilt (41-18)
Stanford, California – Stanford (38-16)
Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (41-17) through games of 5/28
Terre Haute, Indiana – Indiana State (42-15)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama – Alabama (40-19)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Wake Forest (47-10)
By being awarded a regional, all 16 host institutions have also been selected to the 64-team championship field.
Each regional field features four teams, playing in a double-elimination format. All 16 regionals are scheduled to be conducted from Friday, June 2 to Monday, June 5 (if necessary).
Indiana State is hosting for the first time and making their 12th appearance in the championship field.
Miami (Florida) (29), LSU (27) and Stanford (21) have each hosted regional competition at least 20 times, the most among the 16 host teams in 2023.
Five institutions, Auburn, Florida, Miami (Florida), Oklahoma St. and Stanford, all hosted in 2022. The Cardinal are hosting for the sixth consecutive championship dating back to the 2017 season.
The full 64-team field, top-16 national seeds, first-round regional pairings and site assignments will be announced at Noon (ET), Monday, May 29. The one-hour program will be shown live on ESPN2. The committee will set the entire 64-team bracket through both the super regionals and the first round of the Men’s College World Series and will not reseed the field after play begins.
Selection of the eight super regional hosts will be announced on www.NCAA.com/mcws, Tuesday, June 6 at 10 a.m. (ET).
There are 30 Division I Conferences which will receive an automatic berth in the field of 64, along with 34 at-large selections. The Men’s College World Series begins play Friday, June 16, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
NCAA Postseason History at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field
NCAA Regional Tournaments (27): 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023
NCAA Super Regional Series (11): 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
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