LSU baseball 2024 schedule: Tigers to play in Texas tournament
BATON ROUGE – LSU baseball will participate in the 2024 Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston from March 1-3, the school announced on Friday.
The Tigers are scheduled to face Texas on March 1 (7 p.m.) in their first game of the tournament before playing UL on March 2 (7 p.m.) and Texas State on March 3 (3 p.m.).
Houston and Vanderbilt are the other two schools participating in the tournament.
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This will be the fifth appearance LSU has made in the event. LSU participated in the tournament in 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2022.
LSU will also become the third defending national champion to participate in the event, going Texas in 2006 and Rice in 2004.
The Tigers won their seventh national championship on Monday, defeating Florida in Game 3 of the College World Series, 18-4.
Koki Riley covers LSU sports for The Daily Advertiser. Email him at kriley@theadvertiser.com and follow him on Twitter at @KokiRiley
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