LSU’s baseball team capped off the 2024-25 athletic year for the Southeastern Conference by winning the national championship a little more than a week ago.

The celebration at The Box for the 2025 national championship LSU baseball team is over. So, it is time for coach Jay Johnson to begin the work on setting up the roster for the 2026 season.

Jay Johnson has been the LSU baseball coach for just four seasons. In that short period of time, Johnson is on the road to being considered one of the best coaches in school history.

This Tigers team was really a team. The depth among both the pitchers and the position players was the main quality of the 2025 champions.

In their 20th appearance at Omaha in the past 40 seasons, the Tigers won an eighth championship in the last 25 years. Since the super-regional format began 26 seasons ago, LSU has won four national titles – tops among all schools.

Well, Kade Anderson may have matched what Laxton did more than 30 years ago Saturday night in the first game of the College World Series finals.

LSU is the last power conference team to defeat a mid-major athletic program in the College World Series finals. The Tigers knocked off Wichita State 8-0 to win the 1993 national crown. Two years earlier, LSU had beaten Wichita 6-3 to win the national title.

If Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn knew about LSU’s history at the College World Series, he should have been far from comfortable heading into the bottom of the ninth Wednesday night with a two-run lead.

With LSU one victory away from reaching the CWS finals Wednesday night, Jones was once again in the middle of a wild last two innings against the Razorbacks.