Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Baseball earned its third consecutive berth to the NCAA Baseball Regionals and second at-large in as many years when it was selected to play in the NCAA Bryan-College Station Regional beginning on Friday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
No. 21-ranked Louisiana (40-18), the Sun Belt Conference regular-season champion, will face No. 24 Texas (35-22) in the nightcap on Friday at 5 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPNU with fans able to listen to the game in the Lafayette area on KPEL-FM (96.5) and worldwide on the Varsity Network app.
The opening game of the Bryan-College Station Regional will feature No. 3 national seed Texas A&M (44-13) facing Grambling (26-26) on Friday at noon. The winner of the Bryan-College Station Regional will face the winner of the UC Santa Barbara Regional for a trip to the 2024 College World Series.
The postseason berth is Louisiana's 19th in school history and second trip to College Station in the past three years. Louisiana went 1-2 in the 2022 NCAA College Station Regional, earning a win over TCU before falling to Texas A&M and TCU.
The meeting against Texas marks the second consecutive season the teams will face off in the opening round of the NCAA Regionals. The Longhorns earned a 4-2 win over the Ragin' Cajuns in the opening game of the 2023 NCAA Coral Gables Regional.