BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU is ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball magazine poll released Monday. The top-ranked Tigers (7-0) play host to No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.
The 2014 LSU team is the fifth Tiger squad to earn the top ranking during the eight-season tenure of coach Paul Mainieri.
The 2013 team was ranked No. 1 for one week in April and again in late May as the Tigers entered the NCAA Tournament. The 2012 squad held a No. 1 ranking twice, once in mid-April and once in early June.
The 2009 team, which won the national championship, was ranked No. 1 in seven different weeks. The 2010 Fighting Tiger squad held a No. 1 ranking for three weeks.
Collegiate Baseball Top 30
Rank, Team (2014 Record), Points
1. LSU (7-0), 494
2. Florida St. (6-0), 491
3. Oregon (7-0), 489
4. Vanderbilt (7-0), 487
5. South Carolina (7-0), 485
6. Virginia (6-1), 482
7. N.C. State (6-1), 480
8. Oregon St. (5-2), 478
9. Louisville (5-2), 476
10. Cal. St. Fullerton (4-3), 475
11. Oklahoma St. (8-1), 472
12. Texas Christian (6-1), 469
13. Louisiana-Lafayette (7-1), 467
14. Cal. Poly (6-1), 464
15. Rice (6-2), 461
16. Clemson (5-1), 458
17. Miami, Fla. (4-3), 455
18. Mississippi St. (4-4), 454
19. North Carolina (3-3), 452
20. UCLA (4-3), 450
21. Florida (5-3), 447
22. Arizona (6-2), 445
23. Texas A&M (6-1), 442
24. Texas (5-3), 441
25. Mississippi (6-1), 438
26. Texas Tech. (6-1), 436
27. Arkansas (6-0), 433
28. Tennessee (7-0), 432
29. Southern California (7-0), 429
30. Florida International (8-0), 426
Baseball America Top 25
Team W-L Last Week Previous Ranking
1. Virginia 6-1 4-0 1
2. Florida State 6-0 3-0 4
3. South Carolina 7-0 4-0 5
4. Oregon State 5-2 2-2 2
5. Cal State Fullerton 4-3 2-2 3
6. North Carolina State 5-1 5-0 6
7. LSU 7-0 4-0 8
8. Vanderbilt 7-0 4-0 9
9. Oregon 7-0 4-0 11
10. Louisiana-Lafayette 7-1 4-0 14
11. Clemson 5-1 3-0 13
12. Rice 6-2 4-1 15
13. Cal Poly 6-1 3-1 22
14. Miami 4-3 2-2 16
15. Texas 5-3 3-1 18
16. Texas Christian 6-1 4-0 19
17. Indiana 2-5 1-2 10
18. Mississippi State 4-4 2-3 7
19. UCLA 4-3 2-2 12
20. Louisville 5-2 3-1 20
21. Alabama 4-2 2-1 21
22. North Carolina 3-3 2-2 17
23. Texas A&M 6-1 3-1 24
24. Arkansas 6-0 3-0 25
25. Florida 3-2 3-2 23