BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU's final baseball attendance figure for the 2009 season topped the 400,000 mark, shattering the previous school attendance record.

LSU's total paid attendance for the '09 season in the New Alex Box Stadium was 403,056 for 42 games, an average of 9,596 per game.

A school single-game record crowd of 9,651 on Saturday witnessed LSU's NCAA Super Regional win over Rice that propelled the Tigers into the College World Series.

LSU's previous high attendance mark of 318,798 was set in 2008, the final season in the original Alex Box Stadium.

LSU has led the nation in baseball attendance in each of the past 14 seasons (1996-2009).