re: LSU basketball game atmosphere

Those teams are two of the handful of college teams from a basketball hotbed that have a tradition of passion for hoops that transcends most colleges in America. There are very few schools that can compare and when they play each other that's magnified.

LSU baseball is a similar example in a school whose fans are so disproportionally passionate about a sport. In LSU's case for baseball it's even more in a vacuum though as there or even fewer schools relatively speaking who have anywhere near the passion and it magnifies how passionate our fans look when you come there and most schools are used to playing in front of a few thousand or eve 100's of fans.