BATON ROUGE — LSU is ranked No. 6 in four college baseball polls released this week. The Tigers finished the season sixth in the Collegiate Baseball, Baseball America, ESPN/USA Today and Rivals.com rankings.
The ranking represents LSU’s best finish in a poll since the 2004 squad was ranked No. 6 by ESPN/USA Today.
LSU (49-19-1), picked to finish fifth in the SEC Western Division in the preseason coaches’ poll, advanced to the College World Series in 2008 and won 26 of its final 29 games.
With four weeks remaining in the regular season, LSU was 23-16-1 overall and in 11th place in the overall league standings with a 6-11-1 SEC record; However, the Tigers posted a conference-record 23-game win streak that saw LSU claim the SEC Western Division title, the SEC Tournament championship and the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional championship.
LSU’s 23-game surge ended with a loss to UC Irvine in Game 1 of the NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional, but the Tigers won the next two games over the Anteaters to advance to the College World Series for the 14th time in school history and for the first time since 2004.
LSU placed fifth in Omaha with a 1-2 record, marking the Tigers’ first Top 5 CWS finish since the 2000 squad claimed the national title.