LSU baseball will meet a familiar opponent in its first College World Series game. Here's what Jay Johnson had to say about meeting Arkansas again.

The CWS opens Friday with the Sun Belt Conference's Coastal Carolina (53-11) playing the Big 12's Arizona (44-19) in a rematch of the 2016 finals won by the Chanticleers. No. 8 national seed Oregon State (47-14-1), an independent until the Pac-12 ramps up again in 2026-27, meets the ACC's Louisville (40-22) in the second game.

Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers made their way to Omaha on Wednesday with the program gearing up for a critical stretch in the College World Series this weekend.

College World Series field is set with eight teams fighting for a national championship in Omaha. This year features an entirely new field representing seven different conferences. Following an exciting weekend in the Super Regionals,