LSU captured the seventh national championship in program history on Monday night, dominating Florida 18-4 in a decisive Game 3 to end a 14-year wait to get back to the mountaintop.
But this team is a lot more than just one of seven, at least according to head coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag]. After the game, he said this LSU squad will be remembered as one of the greatest in the history of the sport.
“I really believe this will go down in one of the best teams in college baseball history,” Johnson said per On3. “So consistent in the regular season. I think the SEC Tournament is the only week of the year we had a losing record, if you think about that. Not only one losing week for an entire regular season. 11 wins in the postseason, six of them against SEC teams. And I really believe we played and beat every team, the best team that we could have played along the way throughout the entire tournament at that spot.”
LSU spent much of the year as the No. 1 team and knocked the only other team to be ranked in the top spot, Wake Forest, out of the tournament. The Tigers also had to beat the No. 2 seed in the Gators in a three-game series.
There have been a lot of great teams to dogpile in Omaha — including several that wore the purple and gold — but Johnson certainly has an argument to make about this year’s squad.
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