The 2022-2023 collegiate athletic calender is officially complete. On Monday night, the LSU Tigers defeated the Florida Gators 18-4 en route to the program’s seventh national championship and first since 2009.
With the national championship, LSU became the first school in collegiate sports history to win both a baseball and basketball national championship in the same year. The LSU Women’s Basketball team previously won the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship earlier this year over Iowa 102-85.
The Tigers would go down 2-0 in the first inning on Monday but would quickly recover, with 11 unanswered runs over the next six innings before adding on seven runs over the course of the eighth and ninth innings to put the game away for good.
The Tigers’ 24 hits in the game are the most in College World Series history, breaking the previous record of 23 which was tied by the Gators on Sunday in a 24-4 win.
The Tigers now have the second most national championships in NCAA history with seven, only behind USC’s 12. Texas has the third most with six while Arizona State is fourth with five.
But now with the completion of the 2022-2023 academic year, athletic schedules. The short wait begins for collegiate sports to pick back up as fall sports begin their preseason training in late July and early August in preparation for their starts in late August and early September.
Beyond LSU winning the College World Series there are also several notable college basketball transfer portal updates to pass along.
