-- There are some -- OK, many -- who will eagerly frame this weekend's Men's College World Series best-of-three championship series between Coastal Carolina and LSU (beginning Saturday at 7 p.m. LSU, the purple and gold perpetual Mardi Gras of college baseball, is back in Omaha for its 20th appearance and is a seven-time MCWS champion. If the Tigers win their eighth title, all earned since 1991 with the most recent in 2023, they will bolster their argument as the greatest college baseball program ever. Coastal Carolina, the teal-draped baseball boys of South Carolina's Grand Strand, is experiencing its second-ever trip to Omaha. It was Gilmore, aka "Gilly," who conjured up the Coastal Carolina program from a pile of sand, and did it quite literally.