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Its baseball team is a historical NCAA powerhouse, having won six College World Series titles and regularly leads the NCAA in attendance.
Although its men's basketball team has no titles it has two well-known players: [[Pete Maravich]] and [[Shaquille O'Neal]]. The women's team won the national title in 2023, led by coach [[Kim Mulkey]] (who won three prior national titles at [[Baylor University]]), who is disliked by the media for her unwillingness to unconditionally support former player [[Brittney Griner]]. (Mulkey was the target of a [[Washington Post]] article; the team was later called "dirty debutantes" - a term with sexist and racist overtones, a Google search of the term pulls up links to porn sites - by the [[Los Angeles Times]] before the latter was forced to revise the article to remove the term.)
It is the only school with the mascot name "tiger" that houses a live tiger on campus. Mike the Tiger has an enclosure centrally located near the athletic facilities so fans can see him. Despite repeated calls from [[PETA]] to discontinue the practice, LSU has resisted, saying that tigers in captivity have nearly twice the lifespan as those in the wild, and that tiger habitats are needed to preserve the species. However, LSU has discontinued the practice of placing Mike in a wheeled cage and taking him into Tiger Stadium, or to away games (they have, instead, a costumed mascot – also named Mike – who cheers the fans at games).
