The Tigers play home games on LSU's campus at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field, and they are currently coached by Jay Johnson.

However, based on the team's regular season performance, LSU was selected as one of the eight regional host sites for the NCAA tournament.

There, the Tigers narrowly defeated Rice, but Larson's home run in the bottom of the seventh gave LSU a 5–4 victory.

Eddy Furniss won the Dick Howser Trophy as the nation's most outstanding player and finished as the LSU and SEC all-time leader in home runs (80), RBI (308), hits (352), doubles (87) and total bases (689).

In the bottom of the ninth, LSU lead the inning off with a single and a walk to bring Brad Cresse to the plate with two runners on base.

Cresse, who was 1–12 in the CWS prior to the at bat, hit a line drive single into left field to score Ryan Theriot from second, giving LSU its fifth national championship in 10 years.

LSU had 5 players named to the All-Tournament team– Blair Barbier, Mike Fontenot, Brad Hawpe, Hodges, and Theriot.

The Tigers hosted a regional in Baton Rouge, which they won, and moved on to the Houston Super-Regional to face Rice, where their season ended.

2 national seed in the 2003 tournament, and would host a super regional both years, meaning the road to Omaha went through Baton Rouge.

Tiger fans were not used to leaving Omaha without a win, so questions about Laval's leadership and ability to continue the success of the program began to arise.

Mainieri returned to Baton Rouge, where he began his career in college baseball 30 years earlier as a freshman at LSU in 1976.

Prior to his arrival at LSU, Mainieri coached St. Thomas University in Florida, Air Force, and Notre Dame.

The season was full of ups and downs, with the Tigers winning four SEC series against Top 25 opponents, but struggling in non-conference play.

[10] Following an amazing turnaround, Coach Mainieri led LSU to the SEC Western Division championship[11] with a conference record of 18–11–1, and the No.

[15] As a result of the Regional, LSU and Baton Rouge earned a spot in the Super-Regional series, hosting UC-Irvine in the last three games to be played in the old Alex Box Stadium.

[18] On Monday, June 9, 2008, in the final game to be played at the Alex Box Stadium, with a record-setting crowd of 8,173 watching, LSU dominated UC-Irvine with a 21–7 win to move to the 2008 College World Series.

[21] The Tigers, facing elimination in a game against the Rice Owls, won in dramatic fashion, 6–5, continuing their string of come-from-behind victories.

During the 2008 regular and post-regulation baseball season, LSU's games have continuously featured both dramatic victories and controversial calls.

Florida defeated LSU and the Tigers finished as College World Series runner-up for the first time in school history.

Following Mainieri's retirement, LSU hired Arizona baseball Head coach Jay Johnson[26] who had just finished a run at the 2021 College World Series, posting an 0-2 exit.

[27] The 2023 season saw notable transfers come in such as DH Tommy White of NC State[28] and RHP Paul Skenes of Air Force.

[29] Ranked Preseason #1 by D1 Baseball, the Tigers would hold this spot for 13 weeks until series losses to both Auburn and Mississippi State.

LSU would go on to win their bracket in dramatic fashion against the #1 ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the bottom of the 11th inning with a walkoff by Tommy White.

[31] In 2013, LSU posted an NCAA-record total attendance figure of 473,298 in 43 games, which was 191,458 greater than second-place team Mississippi State (281,840).

The squad serves as hostesses at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field and their responsibilities include selling game day programs, recovering foul balls, retrieving bats and helmets, answering fans questions, assisting with game day promotions and giveaways and checking on umpires.

The Sporting News proclaimed "Saturday Night in Death Valley" and Tiger tailgating as the top tradition in college football.

Originally homemade, her current wooden "K" signs were given to her by the Coaches Committee in 1992, the Official Booster Club of LSU Baseball.

It was most notable for The Intimidator, a large billboard behind the right-field fence featuring the six years in which LSU had won the College World Series while playing in the stadium.

The field was also notable for giving up many home runs due to the high humidity of Louisiana, the prevailing winds out of the south which push balls hit to left field out of the park, and the short fences (the dimensions were believed to be anywhere from 7–10 feet shorter than what was posted on the fences).

It was located south of the Pentagon Barracks and slightly southwest of the site of the current Louisiana State Capitol Building adjacent to the Hill Memorial Library and George Peabody Hall.