After just one weekend of postseason play, the new Alex Box Stadium has a postseason aura all its own.Last weekend the No. 1 LSU baseball team unleashed the late-game heroics fans are accustomed to. The Tigers blasted seven runs in the seventh inning against Southern to overcome a 2-1 deficit Friday, and 24 hours later the team rallied to a 3-2 extra-innings victory against Baylor.The Tigers’ 3-0 weekend record lifted them to an NCAA Super Regional for the second consecutive year, an accomplishment befitting the now-empty Alex Box Stadium 300 hundred yards down Nicholson Drive.”Alex Box magic carries over — it moved down the street,” said Chris Elkins, LSU alumnus.Elkins’ confidence is commonplace amongst fans — though it took a weekend to convince the players.Several LSU players were concerned the new stadium couldn’t make as much noise as the old Box, despite its larger capacity of 9,200.”We were all a little worried that the stands were too spread out, but the fans showed us what they got,” said sophomore pitcher Anthony Ranaudo. “This weekend we know what to expect.”Ranaudo started the Tigers’ 10-inning thriller against Baylor — a victory many fans are willing to credit to themselves.”When Ranaudo is on the mound in the ninth inning throwing his 130th pitch, the only thing that’s getting him through is everybody clapping,” said Mike Neely. “He had nothing left, and he still managed to strike out the side. That’s pure adrenaline, and he gets it from the crowd.”It’s an assertion that Ranaudo and others will back up.”As soon as the fans stand up you feel like, ‘I’ve got six, seven, eight more miles an hour,'” said senior pitcher Louis Coleman. “You’re throwing your fastball as hard as you can, and it’s still going 92, but it feels like 102. The fans are bearing down on the hitter … It doesn’t make you throw any harder, but it’ll carry you.”A weekend’s worth of magic is a drop in the bucket compared to the old Box, which helped 13 teams to the College World Series and was home to five national champions.”We’ve opened a brand new stadium as the No. 1 team in the country,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “Wouldn’t it be great to start off a new era in the most appropriate way?”The new stadium has the opportunity to prove its playoff mojo this weekend against No. 7 Rice, as a startling winning streak hangs in the balance.The Tigers have never failed to advance to the College World Series when hosting a Super Regional in Alex Box Stadium since the Super Regional round was introduced in 1999, but have failed to reach Omaha, Neb., all three times they’ve traveled for the second round of the postseason.”I can’t speak for any of the others and neither can anyone on this team,” said junior outfielder Jared Mitchell. “All we can really worry about is what we do.”The Tigers need not worry about the road this summer — unless they make another trip to Omaha.    In order to do that, they’ll need the power of the Box.”We know how well we play here, and that has a lot to do with the fans,” Ranaudo said. “They get you into it.”—-Contact David Helman at [email protected]