Oklahoma Draws LSU at 8 p.m. CT in SEC Tournament opener — Lsu Baseball
lsu baseball opens the SEC Tournament Tuesday at 8 p.m. CT with Oklahoma facing LSU in an 11-seed vs. 14-seed matchup. The game sends the Sooners into Hoover with a chance to build on a season that has already included a series win over LSU and a quarterfinal run in their first league tournament appearance.
Oklahoma-LSU at Hoover
Oklahoma and LSU meet for the fourth time this season, and the teams arrive with different numbers attached to their records. Oklahoma is 32-20 overall and 14-16 in SEC play, while LSU is 29-27 and 9-21 in league games.
The SEC Tournament is being held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium for the 27th consecutive year and 29th overall, with all 16 league members in the field for the second straight season. That leaves no soft opening for either side in a matchup that starts the week for both programs.
Radio and SEC Network
Fans can watch the game on SEC Network, with Dave Neal and Lance Cormier on the call. The radio broadcast is available on The REF 99.3 FM/1400 AM in Oklahoma and on The Varsity Network app, where Toby Rowland, Greg Norton and Carly Murray will handle the radio call.
That gives Oklahoma fans two ways in before first pitch, and the timing fits a game that will decide which side keeps moving in the bracket and which one goes home with the season still unfinished.
Series History With LSU
Oklahoma took the series from LSU in Baton Rouge from March 19-21, winning the final two games after dropping the opener. That was the Sooners’ first series win over LSU in program history, and it came after LSU had swept Oklahoma in Norman in the program’s first season in the league last year.
The matchup also reaches back to 2013, when LSU beat Oklahoma in the Baton Rouge Super Regional to advance to Omaha. LSU still leads the all-time series 13-6 and holds a 4-2 edge as conference foes, so the Sooners are carrying more than one recent result into Tuesday night.
Oklahoma enters after dropping its series against No. 23 Tennessee in Oklahoma City last weekend, then salvaging the finale 12-9. Junior Deiten Lachance hit three home runs in that game, the first Sooner to do it since 2000, and Oklahoma has outscored opponents 349-291 this season despite a staff ERA of 5.36 with 522 strikeouts and 227 walks.
LSU comes in after beginning the season ranked No. 2 and then falling out of the D1Baseball Top 25 in April. Oklahoma, meanwhile, is unranked in this week’s D1Baseball Top 25 for just the second time since the preseason poll and is receiving votes in the NCBWA poll and Coaches poll, which gives Tuesday’s opener a sharper edge than a simple seed line would suggest.
