FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Seven years after hosting its last NCAA Regional, Baum Stadium was the site of the most-attended regional during the opening round of the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. A total of 67,704 fans were in attendance for the Fayetteville Regional which ranked first among the 16 host sites around the country. The regional also featured Missouri State, Oklahoma State and Oral Roberts.
The fans in attendance at the Fayetteville Regional were treated to a weekend of games that featured seven games and five one-run decisions, including the final four games of the regional. More than 9,000 fans were in the seats for each of Arkansas’ five regional games with attendance surpassing the 10,000 mark in three of those contests. The Razorbacks’ opening game against Oral Roberts was played in front of 11,088 fans, the fifth-largest attendance in Baum Stadium history.
| NCAA Regional Sites | # of Games | Total Attendance |
| Fayetteville, Ark. | 7 | 67,704 |
| Baton Rouge, La. | 6 | 62,881 |
| Lubbock, Texas | 7 | 33,124 |
| Hattiesburg, Miss. | 7 | 29,550 |
| Clemson, S.C. | 7 | 28,498 |
| Lexington, Ky. | 7 | 23,558 |
| Fort Worth, Texas | 6 | 23,120 |
| Tallahassee, Fla. | 7 | 21,539 |
| Houston, Texas | 6 | 20,340 |
| Corvallis, Ore. | 6 | 20,058 |
| Louisville, Ky. | 6 | 17,707 |
| Long Beach, Calif. | 7 | 16,670 |
| Chapel Hill, N.C. | 6 | 16,166 |
| Gainesville, Fla. | 7 | 14,124 |
| Stanford, Calif. | 6 | 10,128 |
| Winston-Salem, N.C. | 6 | 8,997 |
| Total | 104 | 414,164 |
| Attendance | Opponent | Date |
| 11,827 | No. 13 LSU | April 8, 2017 |
| 11,088 | Oral Roberts | June 2, 2017 |
| 10,891 | Miami (OH) | Feb. 18, 2017 |
| 10,741 | No. 13 LSU | April 7, 2017 |
| 10,527 | No. 21 Missouri State | June 5, 2017 |
| 10,369 | No. 21 Missouri State | June 3, 2017 |
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