BATON ROUGE, La. – For the fourth consecutive season, LSU is No. 1 in the college baseball attendance rankings. And this time, the Tigers rose to the top of the attendance poll in record-setting fashion.
LSU established three national attendance records last season, according to the 1999 Collegiate Baseball magazine survey released this week.
The Tigers’ total home attendance of 271,888 (including NCAA Regional games) set an NCAA single-season mark and ranked LSU No. 1 in the nation for the fourth straight year.
LSU?s average per game attendance of 7,154 and its total regular-season attendance of 235,372 also set NCAA records.
Texas A&M finished No. 2 behind LSU in the 1999 total attendance survey with 195,440 fans. The Aggies were followed by No. 3 Alabama (172,264), No. 4 Texas (154,423), No. 5 Mississippi State (151,941), No. 6 Texas Tech (130,233), No. 7 Arkansas (130,091), No. 8 Miami, Fla. (106,685), No. 9 Auburn (104,560) and No. 10 Hawaii (98,668).
LSU’s 2000 baseball squad begins its five-week fall practice period Sept. 27. All intra-squad scrimmages during the fall will be open to the public.
The Tigers open the 2000 season Feb. 12 versus Virginia in Alex Box Stadium.