BATON ROUGE — LSU led the nation in baseball attendance for the 10th-straight season according to the 2005 attendance rankings released by the NCAA on Tuesday.
The Tigers’ 2005 total home attendance of 270,300 was No. 1 in the country, as was the Tigers’ average attendance of 7,508 per game (36 games). LSU has finished first in the attendance survey each year since 1996.
LSU’s 2005 average attendance figure was the third-largest in school history, and the total attendance figure was No. 7 in school annals.
Texas finished No. 2 behind LSU in the total attendance survey with a final figure of 204,414. The rest of the Top 10 included Mississippi State (203,276), Arkansas (200,378), Nebraska (174,435), Ole Miss (170,152), Florida State (163,029), Texas A&M (153,533), Tulane (145,084) and Wichita State (141,927).
2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Home Attendance Leaders
TOTAL Home Attendance
Team
Dates
Total
Average
1. LSU
36
270,300
7,508
2. Texas
39
204,414
5,241
3. Mississippi St.
33
203,276
6,160
4. Arkansas
28
200,378
7,156
5. Nebraska
35
174,435
4,984
6. Mississippi
39
170,152
4,363
7. Florida St.
36
163,029
4,529
8. Texas A&M
26
153,533
5,905
9. Tulane
39
145,084
3,720
10. Wichita St.
39
141,927
3,639
AVERAGE Home Attendance
Team
Dates
Total
Average
1. LSU
36
270,300
7,508
2. Arkansas
28
200,378
7,156
3. Mississippi St.
33
203,276
6,160
4. Texas A&M
26
153,533
5,905
5. Texas
39
204,414
5,241
6. Nebraska
35
174,435
4,984
7. Florida St.
36
163,029
4,529
8. Mississippi
39
170,152
4,363
9. Alabama
33
137,671
4,172
10. Rice
34
141,104
4,150