March 11 Baseball National Rankings, Report

Overall Record: 14-2

Last Week’s Results (3-1)
March 6 (Wed.) – at Southeastern Louisiana (W, 4-3)
March 8 (Fri.) – XAVIER (W, 4-0)
March 9 (Sat.) – XAVIER (W, 8-2)
March 10 (Sun.) – XAVIER (L, 1-2)

This Week’s Schedule
March 12 (Tue.) – NORTH DAKOTA STATE, 6 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
March 13 (Wed.) – NORTH DAKOTA STATE, 1 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
March 15 (Fri.) – at Mississippi State, 6 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
March 16 (Sat.) – at Mississippi State, 4 p.m. CT (SEC Network)
March 17 (Sun.) – at Mississippi State, 1 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)

Tigers Update
• LSU won three of its four games last week, and the Tigers this week are ranked No. 2 in the nation by Baseball America, USA Today and D1 Baseball … the Tigers posted a 4-3 win at Southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday night, then won two of three games over Xavier last weekend in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.

• Junior right-hander Luke Holman fired 6.0 scoreless and hitless innings Friday in a win over Xavier … Holman limited the Musketeers to no hits with two walks and 10 strikeouts … he threw 97 pitches in the outing, recording 59 pitches for strikes, and he did not allow a Xavier player to advance beyond second base … Holman retired nine straight Xavier batters to complete his outing, including six by strikeouts … Holman is 4-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA in 24.0 innings … he has recorded four walks and 40 strikeouts, and he’s limiting opponents to a .103 batting average.

• Freshman left-hander Kade Anderson turned in a brilliant outing on Wednesday night in LSU’s win at Southeastern Louisiana in just his third collegiate start … he fired 5.0 innings, limiting the Lions to no earned runs on two hits with two walks and a career-best 13 strikeouts … the 13 Ks also represented the most recorded by an LSU pitcher this season … Anderson threw 77 pitches, including 53 for strikes, and he struck out the first seven Southeastern Louisiana batters that he faced … he retired a total of nine in a row before an SLU player reached base to begin the fourth inning … Anderson allowed just one SLU player to advance beyond second base … Anderson is 2-0 this season with a 0.64 ERA, and he has recorded 26 strikeouts in 14.0 innings.

• Sophomore left-hander Gage Jump improved to 2-0 on the year Saturday when he defeated Xavier … Jump recorded a career-best 10 strikeouts in five scoreless innings, limiting the Musketeers to three hits with one walk … Jump has a 0.00 ERA in 13.1 innings this season with two walks, 21 strikeouts and a .133 opponent batting average.

• Freshman second baseman Steven Milam led LSU at the plate last week, batting .353 (6-for-17) in four games with a double and three RBI … Milam also score five runs and recorded one stolen base … he is the Tigers’ leading hitter this season, batting .389 (21-for-54) with three doubles, 13 RBI, 16 runs, four steals and a .471 on-base percentage.

• The LSU pitching staff posted a 1.25 ERA in the Tigers’ four games last week, allowing just five earned runs in 36.0 innings with 10 walks and 57 strikeouts … opponents hit .184 against the LSU staff in the four-game stretch.

• LSU’s nine-game win streak this season from February 24-March 9 was the Tigers’ longest since early last season, when the 2023 club won 13 in a row from February 26-March 18.

 

Check back for updates as polls are released on March 11.

Team	Baseball America	D1Baseball	Perfect Game	Coaches	NCBWA
Arkansas	1	1	1	1	2
LSU	2	2	2	2	3
Duke	3	6	5	7	7
Oregon State	4	3	4	3	1
Texas A&M	5	4	3	4	4
Tennessee	6	5	7	6	5
Wake Forest	7	7	6	5	6
Vanderbilt	8	9	8	10	10
Clemson	9	10	10	9	8
Florida	10	8	11	11	15
TCU	11	12	9	8	9
South Carolina	12	20	18	t20	21
East Carolina	13	11	15	16	14
North Carolina	14	15	16	13	11
Virginia	15	17	17	15	16
NC State	16	13	20	14	12
Auburn	17	18	12	19	20
Alabama	18	14	21	12	13
UC Irvine	19	22	22	t20	22
Dallas Baptist	20	19	13	18	18
Florida State	21	NR	19	22	19
Coastal Carolina	22	16	23	17	17
Texas	23	23	14	24	24
Texas Tech	24	24	NR	25	23
Campbell	25	21	24	23	NR
California	NR	NR	25	NR	NR
UCSB	NR	25	NR	NR	NR
Georgia	NR	NR	NR	NR	25