After leading the Bulldogs to back-to-back NCAA Regionals and a Conference USA Tournament Championship, Lane Burroughs will enter his seventh season in charge of the Louisiana Tech baseball program in 2023.

In 2022, Burroughs led the Bulldogs to their second consecutive NCAA Regional appearance for the first time since 1986 and 1987 and tenth in program history while notching 85 total wins in the past two seasons. After a 4-1 record and back-to-back walk-off victories over Old Dominion and UTSA the Bulldogs brought home their first Conference USA Tournament Title in the schools history.

Burroughs captured his 300th career win as a head coach after a doubleheader sweep of Marshall on April 16 and his 200th win at Tech on the final game of the regular season in a 14-5 win over Charlotte. Burroughs holds a 205-111 record in his six years as skipper of the Bulldogs and 318-224 career record as a head coach.

On February 23 the Bulldogs hosted No. 2 LSU for the first time in 25 years and came out victorious 11-6. A month later on March 23, Tech traveled down to Baton Rouge and took the season series 7-6 in a 12-inning thriller marking back-to-back wins over the Tigers for the first time since 1983 and 1984.

Six Bulldogs were named to All-Conference teams including Logan McLeod becoming the second Tech player to be named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year. Taylor Young was also named as First Team All-American by ABCA/Rawlings.

In 2021, Burroughs led the Diamond Dogs to their sixth 40-win season in program history, improving his record at LA Tech to 162-90. The Bulldogs not only made it to their first C-USA Championship game, but they also hosted an NCAA Regional for the first time in Bulldog Baseball history.

LA Tech earned the No. 16 overall seed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, marking its ninth NCAA Regional appearance in program history. The Diamond Dogs made it to the Regional final after defeating Rider 18-2 and SEC foe Alabama 10-8. LA Tech’s win over the Crimson Tide secured its third win over a different SEC opponent in a single season (Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss) for the first time since 1987.

Burroughs also guided LA Tech to its first division title since 1992 by winning the Conference USA’s Western Division title on the final day of the C-USA season. The Bulldogs defeated UTSA 17-7 in run-rule fashion to earn the division crown.

A program-record five Bulldogs earned First Team All-Conference USA honors under Burroughs’ tutelage, including Taylor Young becoming the first Diamond Dog to be named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year. Young was also honored as a Third Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball.

In 2020, Burroughs led the 'Dogs to an 11-6 record before the public health threat of COVID-19 resulted in the cancellation of the remainder of the season. The Bulldogs were getting ready to face off with Middle Tennessee in Jackson, Miss. when they got the news of the cancellation. Tech went 5-1 against other Louisiana schools in 2020.

In 2019, Burroughs led LA Tech to a 34-24 overall record, including a 17-13 mark in Conference USA. Though a mid-April tornado forced the Bulldogs out of J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park, Louisiana Tech still finished the regular season strongly with a victory over then-no. 15 LSU and series wins over FIU and Western Kentucky. LA Tech picked up four wins over ranked teams in 2019, defeating Arkansas, LSU, and Florida Atlantic.

The 2019 campaign also saw two Bulldogs make their way into Major League Baseball. The Oakland Athletics drafted pitcher David Leal in the 38th round, and the Tampa Bay Rays signed Mason Mallard as a free agent after the draft.

In 2018, Burroughs led the Bulldogs to a 39-20 record - including a program record 21 victories in conference play - en route to the second seed in the Conference USA Tournament after the team was picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll. Under his leadership, the Bulldogs won 18 true road games (sixth-most in NCAA, and most in C-USA) for the first time since 1982. Tech also finished a perfect 5-0 in league series on the road.

Tech also claimed several signature victories in 2018, including wins over Power 5 foes in then No. 9 Texas A&M and Cal, as Tech claimed The Frisco Classic Championship Title. Burroughs also led the Bulldogs to a road series win over then No. 9 Southern Miss, finishing as the only team to beat the Golden Eagles in a regular-season series in 2018.

Burroughs continued his home success, leading the Bulldogs to 18 home victories, marking the first time that a Tech team posted 18 wins at home and on the road in the same season since 1982.

Burroughs joined the LA Tech family in 2017.

Since then...

  • Averaging 39 wins a season

  • 85 total wins in the last two years

  • 25 All-Conference USA Selections

  • 7 All-Americans

  • 3 Academic All-Americans

  • 1 Golden Glove winner

  • 9 players selected in the MLB Draft

  • 2021 Regional host

  • The Diamond Dogs to their first win over a No. 1 team in program history with a 2-0 shutout of top-ranked Arkansas on March 14, 2021

  • 109 victories through his first three years, more than any Tech baseball coach in their first three seasons.

  • Registered a 36-20 inaugural season (first back-to-back 35+ win seasons in more than 25 years for the program)