Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers will return to action on Monday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha (Neb.) with a matchup against the UCLA Bruins set. After taking

As many teams have relied more on the transfer portal, UCLA baseball is reliant on star sophomores like Roch Cholowsky.

No. 15 national seed UCLA (48-16) advances to face the winner between No. 3 Arkansas and No. 6 LSU on Monday at 6 p.m. Four seed Murray State (44-16) — ostensibly the biggest CWS long shot since Stony Brook 13 years earlier — faces elimination at 1 p.m. Monday against the other heavyweight SEC club.

The Bruins will be taking on the 6th-seeded Tigers in their winner's semifinals of the Men's College World Series.

UCLA baseball is in the College World Series for the first time since 2013 and one of its players, Toussaint Bythewood, is the son of a famous director