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LSU No. 1 in baseball attendance

by Walter Pierce

The Tigers' total attendance mark was nearly 200,000 greater than second-place Mississippi State.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - In the final 2013 college baseball attendance rankings, LSU is No. 1 for the 18th straight season.

Officials say LSU posted an NCAA-record total attendance figure of 473,298 in 43 games this season in Alex Box Stadium, including 38 regular-season games, three NCAA Regional games and two NCAA Super Regional contests.

The Tigers' total attendance mark was nearly 200,000 greater than second-place Mississippi State.

LSU is the only school in NCAA history to exceed 400,000 in baseball attendance.