BATON ROUGE, La. – Making its first NCAA postseason appearance since 1994, Southeastern Louisiana will face the No. 8 national seed, LSU, Friday at 2 p.m. in the first round at Alex Box Stadium.
Southeastern (37-23) is the No. 4 seed in the Baton Rouge regional and will face the host, top-seeded LSU (44-14-1), in the opening contest. Completing the regional is No. 2 seed Houston (44-15) and No. 3 seed Bryant (42-14).
The Lions, who earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid after defeating Central Arkansas, 9-4, in the tournament championship game this past Saturday, return to the site of their last regional appearance.
All of Southeastern's regional games can be heard in the Hammond area on KSLU 90.9 FM, online and either the KSLU or TuneIn Radio smartphone apps. Fans can keep up with the tournament through live statistics or by following SLUathletics on Twitter. Every game of the Baton Rouge regional will be available on ESPN3.
Ticket information for Southeastern fans will be available later Monday evening.
The NCAA selection committee 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. All 16 regionals are scheduled to be conducted from Friday, May 30 to Monday, June 2. LSU, which hosted a regional last season, is hosting for the 22nd time in school history.
There are 31 Division I conferences that received an automatic berth in the field of 64, along with 33 at-large selections. The 68th Men's College World Series begins play Saturday, June 14, at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship (all times Central) Baton Rouge Regional hosted by LSU#1 LSU (44-14-1) vs. #4 Southeastern La. (37-23), 2 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Houston (44-15) vs. #3 Bryant (42-14), 7 p.m., ESPN3
Bloomington Regional hosted by Indiana#1 Indiana (42-13) vs. #4 Youngstown State (16-36), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Indiana State (35-16) vs. #3 Stanford (30-23), 1 p.m., ESPN3
Charlottesville Regional hosted by Virginia#1 Virginia (44-13) vs. #4 Bucknell (30-19-1), 1 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Arkansas (38-23) vs. #3 Liberty (41-16), 6 p.m., ESPNU
Coral Gables Regional hosted by Miami (Florida)#1 Miami (Florida) (41-17) vs. #4 Bethune-Cookman (26-31), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Texas Tech (40-18) vs. #3 Columbia (29-18), 1 p.m., ESPN3
Corvallis Regional hosted by Oregon State#1 Oregon State (42-12) vs. #4 North Dakota State (25-24), 10 p.m., ESPNU
#2 UNLV (35-23) vs. #3 UC Irvine (35-22), 4 p.m., ESPN3
Columbia Regional hosted by South Carolina#1 South Carolina (42-16) vs. #4 Campbell (40-19), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Maryland (36-21) vs. #3 Old Dominion (36-24), 12 p.m., ESPN3
Fort Worth Regional hosted by TCU#1 TCU (42-15) vs. #4 Siena (26-231), 7 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Dallas Baptist (40-19) vs. #3 Sam Houston State (41-217), 2:30 p.m., ESPN3
Gainesville Regional hosted by Florida#1 Florida (40-21) vs. #4 Col. of Charleston (41-17), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Long Beach State (32-24) vs. #3 North Carolina (34-25), 12 p.m., ESPN3
Houston Regional hosted by Rice#1 Rice (41-18) vs. #4 George Mason (34-20), 7 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Texas (38-18) vs. #3 Texas A&M (33-24), 3 p.m., ESPNU
Lafayette Regional hosted by La.-Lafayette#1 La.-Lafayette (53-7) vs. Jackson State (31-23), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Mississippi State (37-22) vs. #3 San Diego State (42-19), 1 p.m., ESPN3
Louisville Regional hosted by Louisville#1 Louisville (45-15) vs. #4 Kent State (36-21), 5 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Kentucky (35-23) vs. #3 Kansas (34-24), 1 p.m., ESPN3
Nashville Regional hosted by Vanderbilt#1 Vanderbilt (41-18) vs. #4 Xavier (29-27), 7 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Oregon (42-18) vs. #3 Clemson (36-23), 12 p.m., ESPN3
Oxford Regional hosted by Ole Miss#1 Ole Miss (41-18) vs. #4 Jacksonville State (36-25), 7 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Washington (39-15-1) vs. #3 Georgia Tech (36-25), 3 p.m., ESPN3
San Luis Obispo Regional hosted by Cal Poly#1 Cal Poly (45-10) vs. #4 Sacramento State (39-22), 8 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Arizona State (33-22) vs. #3 Pepperdine (39-16), 3 p.m., ESPN3
Stillwater Regional hosted by Oklahoma State#1 Oklahoma State (45-16) vs. #4 Binghamton (25-25), 6 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Nebraska (40-19) vs. #3 Cal State Fullerton (32-22), 12 p.m., ESPNU
Tallahassee Regional hosted by Florida St.#1 Florida State (43-15) vs. #4 Ga. Southern (39-21), 5 p.m., ESPN3
#2 Alabama (34-22) vs. #3 Kennesaw State (37-21), 11 a.m., ESPN3
