The top-ranked LSU Tigers will square off against the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field to open the Baton Rouge Super Regional. Jay Johnson and the Tigers are two wins away from punching their ticket to the College World Series with a "championship-level" Mountaineers squad standing in LSU's way.

West Virginia played exciting, tough, resilient and attacking baseball in its sweep of the Clemson Regional of the NCAA tournament, in which the Mountaineers took a pair of games from

The Tigers are in the midst of a very strong season which has seen them go 46-15 (19-11 SEC) and host their 12th Super Regional in program history. They face a West Virginia team who's advanced to a Super Regional for just the second time in program history, with their first trip to a Super Regional coming last year.