Dylan Crews already was one of the most accomplished baseball players in LSU history.

That was before his All-America season this year.

That was before he was named the Most Outstanding Player as the Tigers swept through the Baton Rouge Regional.

That was before he led the Tigers to a sweep of Kentucky in the Baton Rouge Super Regional, before he was named 1 of 3 finalists for the Golden Spikes Award.

Now he’s at the forefront of the discussion of the best LSU baseball player of all time.

If he leads the Tigers to the College World Series championship beginning this weekend in Omaha, he might put an end to the discussion altogether. Crews has a chance to join Arizona State’s Rick Monday as the only college player in history to win a CWS title and be selected No. 1 overall in the same year. Monday did it … in 1965.

LSU has other stars on this team in top pitcher Paul Skenes and infielder Tommy White, who has 97 RBIs and bats right behind Crews, who has reached base in every game this season.

But day in and day out, Crews has been the catalyst for the Tigers being atop the national polls for most of the season and rolling through the regional and Super Regional.

His well-rounded individual ability has made him a strong candidate to be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming MLB Draft. (Unless the Pittsburgh Pirates decide to pick Skenes, of course.)

Crews’ first 2 seasons with the Tigers saw him be named National Freshman of the Year by Perfect Game in 2021 and SEC Co-Player of the Year and a consensus All-American in 2022.

But neither of those teams made it to Omaha as Paul Mainieri’s last team lost to Tennessee in a Super Regional and Jay Johnson’s 1st team lost to Southern Miss in the Hattiesburg Regional last year.

Until this month Crews hadn’t even played a postseason game in Alex Box Stadium, let alone in LSU’s home away from home in Omaha, where the Tigers are heading for the 19th time.

But he and his teammates fixed that.

In the regional opener against Tulane, Crews went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.

In the next game against Oregon State, the Tigers faced their biggest adversity to date in the postseason, falling behind 3-0. But Crews hit a 2-run homer — his 16th homer of the season — to pull LSU within 3-2 in the bottom of the 4th, igniting a comeback that produced a 6-5 victory. Crews finished 2-for-4.

In another game against the Beavers the next day Crews hit his 17th home run, finishing 3-for-4 with 3 runs scored and 2 walks. He finished 8-for-13 in the regional.

In the first game of the Super Regional against Kentucky on Saturday, Crews did not hit 1 of LSU’s 6 home runs, but he still went 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs and a run in a 14-0 romp behind Skenes.

Then in Sunday night’s clincher, Crews showed his patience and timeliness in the Tigers’ 8-3 victory that sent them to Omaha for the first time since 2017.

The Wildcats seemed determined to not let Crews beat them as they pitched around him and walked him 4 times. Then Crews came to bat as LSU had just edged its lead from 5-3 to 6-3 in the top of the 8th.

The Tigers had runners of 2nd and 3rd and — going against Ben McDonald’s excellent TV analysis — chose to pitch to Crews. Big mistake. Crews ripped a 2-run double to left-center in his final at-bat in Alex Box to put his team in command. At which point McDonald, to date the only LSU star to be selected No. 1 overall, reminded the viewing audience pitching to the projected No. 1 pick was the wrong decision.

That was merely the most recent time McDonald vouched for Crews’ bona fides. In the regional, he explained why Crews had done enough to sit atop the Mt. Rushmore of LSU baseball.

Crews’ 3-year individual stats – as well as his defensive prowess in center field – hold up quite well in comparison to legendary LSU position players such as Todd Walker, Alex Bregman, Brad Cresse, Russ Johnson and Eddy Furniss.

Crews enters the CWS with a career batting average of .380 — 2nd only to Walker’s absurd .396. He’s tied with Cresse for 10th all-time with 273 hits. He’s 5th all-time with 226 runs and 4th with 57 home runs. He needs just 3 RBIs in Omaha to move into the top 10 in that category, too.

It’s virtually impossible to compare position players and pitchers (unless you’re talking about Shohei Otani), but Crews soon could join McDonald as the only LSU players to be drafted No. 1 overall.

Individually it’s hard to image what else Crews could have done.

And now Crews – with the help of his teammates – is in position to add the ultimate team accomplishment to his laundry list of individual accomplishments.

Get ready, Omaha.