TUCSON, Ariz.– Defending national champion Louisiana St. is ranked No. 1 for the third straight time in Collegiate Baseball newspaper’s NCAA Division I baseball poll.

The Tigers (11-0) posted two wins over Pepperdine and two wins over Brown at home last week. LSU is 11-0 for the first time since 1997 when the Tigers won their first 19 games of the season en route to the school’s fourth national championship. LSU has won 17 straight home games dating back to last season.

Poll Notes: Several other schools have been red hot. Second ranked Arizona St. is 11-0 while third ranked Florida St. is unbeaten at 10-0 after sweeping a 3-game series at home against Georgia. Two other unbeaten teams are Louisville (11-0, best start since 1957 when the Cardinals went 15-0) and UCLA (9-0, best start since 1955). Coastal Carolina (10-1) has won eight straight while Oklahoma (11-1) has captured six in a row. Two teams fell out of the top 30 in Western Kentucky (3-2 last week) and U.C. Irvine (2-2). New to the poll this week is N.C. State (10-1) and Alabama (8-1).

The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season.

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