On a hair dryer of a Sunday afternoon in the town that every June becomes de facto Baton Rouge North, the LSU Tigers didn't merely win a Men's College World Series national championship. Nor was it merely their eighth overall.

LSU captured its eighth NCAA title with a 5-3 win over Coastal Carolina in Game 2 of the 2025 Men’s College World Series finals at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb. on Sunday. Tigers’ ace Kade Anderson threw a complete-game shutout in Game 1 on Saturday to lead LSU to a 1-0 victory.

The LSU Tigers are once again the kings of Division I college baseball. The sixth-seeded Tigers used a four-run fourth inning and a solid performance from starting pitcher Anthony Eyanson (MLB Pipeline's No.