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LSU baseball picked to finish second in SEC West by media

The Tigers are a preseason top-five team once again, but the path through the SEC is never easy.

LSU is just over a week away from beginning its national title defense, and while coach Jay Johnson’s team lost a pair of studs in [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] and [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], as well as several other key contributors, it has retooled this offseason.

The Tigers enter the year as a preseason unanimous top-five team as they return stars like [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] and added one of the top transfer portal classes in the nation to go with an elite recruiting class.

However, the path won’t be easy. The SEC is loaded again, as always, and the media picked the Tigers to finish second in the West division this season behind another team the media is quite high on.

Here are the full preseason SEC media standings. Note: First-place votes are indicated by parentheses.

Full seeding for 2023 SEC baseball tournament

Here’s where the Tigers and the rest of the league stand entering next week’s conference tournament in Hoover, Alabama.

The regular season is in the books, and it’s time to turn our attention to the postseason. First up is the SEC tournament in Hoover, Alabama, which begins on Tuesday.

After dropping back-to-back series vs. unranked opponents, LSU ended the regular season on a stronger note, taking a series on the road against Georgia. However, the Tigers dropped Game 3.

A win on Saturday would have given coach Jay Johnson’s team an SEC title, but instead, Florida and Arkansas split the title after the former took two of three against Kentucky while the latter lost a series to Vanderbilt.

With the 12-team bracket for this week now set, here’s where each SEC team is seeded. Only the top 12 teams qualify for the tournament, so Ole Miss and Mississippi State — the last two national champions — saw their seasons end on Saturday.

SEC Baseball Standings: New team on top in the East, LSU still trails Arkansas in West entering final week of the regular season

Four teams remain in the race for the regular-season title.

We’re coming down the home stretch in league play, and the race for the SEC regular-season title remains tight.

There are currently four frontrunners: Florida, Vanderbilt, Arkansas and LSU.

The former two faced last weekend with the Gators securing a sweep in Gainesville to reclaim the lead in the SEC East. Arkansas earned a series win over another top-10 team in South Carolina and maintains a half-game lead on UF.

For LSU, it was a weekend to forget. The team squandered leads in both Games 2 and 3 against Mississippi State to drop back-to-back SEC series. At 17-9, the Tigers remain in the race for both the division and league titles, but they need to close out strong against Georgia on the road next weekend and likely get some help.

Still, anything can happen as all four teams sit within two games of each other. Here’s how things stand in the league entering the final weekend of the regular season.

Updated SEC baseball standings as league’s top 4 teams go down over the weekend

The Tigers no longer control their destiny in the SEC West.

If the SEC wasn’t already hard enough to parse when it comes to baseball, this weekend proved quite a complicating factor. The top four teams in the league — all of which ranked in the top five nationally — went down.

LSU suffered its first series loss of the season to Auburn. Vanderbilt lost to an Alabama team that had just fired its coach, South Carolina was swept by Kentucky and Florida was stunned in College Station with a walk-off balk that gave Texas A&M a Game 3 win.

It was a huge weekend for bubble teams in the SEC, and the real winner is probably Arkansas, which had little difficulty sweeping Mississippi State and now controls the SEC West. Another ranked team also suffered a series loss: Tennessee was defeated by Georgia.

Here’s how the standings changed to reflect another wild weekend in the league.

SEC baseball standings as race for conference regular-season title heats up

The Tigers remain in the driver’s seat of the SEC West after registering their second-straight series sweep.

Every time it seems like we’re getting a clear picture of the balance of power in the SEC, another wild weekend in league play shakes up what we thought we knew about this conference.

This past weekend was no different. LSU pulled off its second-straight series sweep in a high-powered matchup against Alabama that featured 58 combined runs throughout the weekend.

Not all of the top teams in the league were so lucky, though. South Carolina suffered a stunning series loss to Auburn after sweeping Florida last weekend. The Gators, meanwhile, bounced back with a sweep of their own against Missouri.

Vanderbilt retook first place in the SEC East with an impressive sweep over a Kentucky team that ranked No. 12. At the bottom of the conference, defending national champion Ole Miss finally won an SEC series by upsetting a hot Georgia team.

With seven series down in league play and three to go, here’s how things stand as the race for the regular season SEC crown heats up.

Lots of shakeup in SEC baseball standings after wild weekend in conference play

A trio of SEC teams that ranked in the top five nationally was swept this weekend.

It was business as usual for LSU this weekend.

The No. 1-ranked Tigers baseball team bounced back from a midweek loss to Louisiana with a weekend sweep on the road against Ole Miss — their first in league play this season.

But while it was a relatively stress-free weekend for coach Jay Johnson’s team, which is slowly getting back to health, there were a lot of surprising results around the league.

Florida, Vanderbilt and Arkansas, all top-five teams in the nation entering the weekend, were swept on the road against South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, respectively. Kentucky also suffered a series loss to Texas A&M on its home field.

After a lot of shakeup in the conference, here’s how the SEC standings look now that the dust has settled.

Where LSU baseball sits in the SEC standings after surviving series against Kentucky

The Tigers got a key series win over the Wildcats this weekend.

It wasn’t always pretty this weekend, but No. 1 LSU survived to take the home series against No. 12 Kentucky and remain unbeaten in SEC play.

After earning a run-rule win in Game 1, errors cost the Tigers in Game 2. However, they bounced back to take Game 3 and the series on Saturday in a 7-6 thriller.

Elsewhere in the league, Florida and Vanderbilt overcame Game 1 losses to take series against Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, while Arkansas handed Tennessee another series defeat in conference play. In a battle to determine the weak link in the SEC West, Ole Miss dropped two games to Mississippi State as the defending champs continue to struggle.

After another week in the league, here’s how the standings are looking.

Where LSU sits in latest standings after rain-impacted weekend in the SEC

LSU’s series against South Carolina will go down as a split as we take a look at the big picture in the conference.

The Masters wasn’t the only sporting event that had to deal with the impacts of inclement weather this weekend.

The same cell that hit Augusta, Georgia, swept across the southeast and caused a number of delays, postponements and — in LSU’s case — cancellations around the SEC for this weekend’s slate of baseball.

There was no decisive Game 3 in LSU’s highly anticipated series against South Carolina, which will go down in the books as a split. Meanwhile, Florida won the other major series in the SEC this weekend with a pair of wins on the road against Tennessee.

Despite the weather causing some disruptions, we continue to get a clearer picture of who is a factor (and who isn’t) in the race for the SEC regular season title. Here’s how things stand after the weekend.

Updated SEC baseball standings after wild weekend in the league

The top conference in college baseball looks pretty open-ended right now.

We’re already three series into the 2023 season’s SEC slate, and it’s shaping up to be a thrilling race for the conference regular season title.

In the weekend’s biggest series — and perhaps the most anticipated of the entire season — LSU took two of three games against Tennessee but is still looking for its first SEC sweep after dropping Game 3.

Meanwhile, a pair of top 10 teams in Florida and Arkansas overcame Game 1 losses against unranked opponents to take their series against Auburn and Alabama, respectively.

Vanderbilt remains undefeated in SEC play after a sweep of Georgia, while South Carolina suffered its first setback in league action while still taking the series against Mississippi State. Kentucky remains hot and delivered an impressive sweep of Missouri, while Ole Miss dropped yet another SEC series and falls to 1-8 in league play.

This is usually the nation’s best (and most competitive) league. This season looks to be no different. Here’s how things stand through three series.

Checking in on the current SEC baseball standings after 2 weeks of conference play

Here’s how things shake out after the second weekend of league competition.

We’re still a long way from NCAA tournament selection, but after two weekend series of SEC play, we’re starting to separate the wheat from the chaff in the conference.

LSU has won its first two series against ranked opponents in Texas A&M and Arkansas, taking both two games to one, and the Razorbacks seem to be the biggest early threat in the West. Mississippi State and Ole Miss, the previous two national champions, both sit at 0-6 in conference play — something that has never happened before.

On the other side of the conference, there’s a bit of a logjam at the top. South Carolina and Vanderbilt have pulled off back-to-back sweeps, while Florida and Kentucky sit at 5-1.

Here’s how the full standings shake out after two SEC series.