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  • Coastal Carolina is making the program's 18th NCAA Regional appearance this weekend at the NCAA Greenville Regional hosted by East Carolina University.
• The Chanticleers have made 17 NCAA Regionals under head coach Gary Gilmore, all since the NCAA went to 64 teams in 1999.
• The 17 NCAA Regional appearances since 1999 by the Chanticleers are tied for the 18th-most in all of NCAA Division I baseball.
  • Coastal is 31-36 (.463) all-time in NCAA Championship Tournament play entering the NCAA Greenville Regional this weekend at East Carolina.
• The Chanticleer are 23-30 (.434) all-time in NCAA Regional play.
• In Super Regional play, the Chants are 2-4 overall with both of their wins coming over LSU at Alex Box Stadium in 2016.
• While CCU has made just one College World Series appearance, the Chants made the best of it, going 6-2 overall and winning the 2016 National Championship.
  • The Chanticleers will be playing in Greenville, N.C., for the first time in NCAA postseason play this weekend.
• Lewis Field at Clark-LeClair Stadium in Greenville (N.C.) will mark the 16th different NCAA Regional venue for the Chanticleers over their now 18 regional appearances.
  • Coastal has played twice in the state of North Carolina in NCAA Regional play, at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional in 2009 and the NCAA Raleigh Regional in 2016.
• While the Chants went 1-2 overall at the 2009 NCAA Regional in Chapel Hill, Coastal won the last regional that it played in the Tar Heel State, winning the 2016 NCAA Raleigh Regional by going 3-1 and defeating the NC State Wolfpack 7-5 with four runs in the top of the ninth in the second championship game.
  • Coastal and East Carolina last met on the baseball diamond at the 2008 NCAA Conway Regional hosted by the Chanticleers at Watson Stadium/Vrooman Field.
• The Chanticleers defeated East Carolina 24-11 in the championship game and advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time in program history.
  • Coastal Carolina holds a slight 7-5 edge overall versus East Carolina in the all-time series.
• The Chanticleers have won each of the last two meetings between the two teams, which dates back to 2008, and is a perfect 6-0 at home all-time versus the Pirates.
• However, CCU has struggled in Greenville, N.C., as the Chants are just 1-5 versus ECU on the Pirates' home field.
  • Coastal Carolina is 1-0 versus the East Carolina Pirates in NCAA Regional play overall.
• The Chanticleers defeated East Carolina 24-11 in the 2008 NCAA Conway Regionals Championship game and advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time in program history.
  • Coastal Carolina holds a slim 5-4 advantage over the Virginia Cavaliers in the all-time series.
• The Chanticleers won the last meeting between the two teams back in Conway, S.C. in 2016 after the Cavaliers had won three consecutive contests from 2010 to 2012.
• The longest winning streak in the all-time series is three-straight wins, first set by Coastal from 2007 to 2008, followed by three consecutive wins by Virginia from 2010 to 2012.
  • Coastal Carolina is 3-14 versus the Atlantic Coastal Conference (ACC) in NCAA Regional play.
• Coastal is 2-1 versus NC State, 1-3 against Georgia Tech, 0-1 versus Virginia Tech, 0-4 against North Carolina, and 0-5 versus Clemson.
• The Chanticleers are also 1-0 versus Louisville (2002) and 0-1 versus Florida State (1991), but neither team was part of the ACC at the time of the contest.
  • Coastal Carolina and Coppin State have never met on the baseball diamond.
  • Coastal is 2-0versus the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in NCAA Regional play.
• CCU is 1-0 versus Florida A&M (2019) and 1-0 versus Texas Southern (2015), both of which are no longer members of the MEAC.
• The Chanticleers are 5-0 all-time versus the current members of the MEAC, with all five wins coming over Delaware State.
  • Coastal has been riding a wave of momentum the last month, and it has come at the right time as the Chanticleers enter postseason play.
• The Chants enter the tournament having won six out of their last eight games and eight of their last 11 contests.
• CCU has also won 16 of its last 21 games over the last month, which included winning 13 of its last 15 Sun Belt Conference games.
• Since being swept at home by Georgia State (April 8-10), the Chanticleers won 16 of 18 Sun Belt Conference games and 19 of its last 24 contests.
  • Coastal played six nationally-ranked teams throughout the regular season, including conference foes Texas State and Georgia Southern.
• The Chanticleers are 6-6 in 12 games versus top-30 nationally ranked teams with wins over then-No. 16 Central Michigan (Feb. 19), No. 30 Wake Forest (March 8), No. 20 Clemson (March 22), and one over No. 9 Texas State (March 26). CCU added two more wins on the road over then-No. 17 Georgia Southern (April 29 & 30).
• The six losses all came on the road by way of three to then-No. 21 North Carolina (March 4-6), two at No. 9 Texas State (March 25 & 27), and one at No. 17 Georgia Southern (May 1).
  • Coastal is 0-1 this season in neutral site games, having suffered a quarterfinals loss to No. 6 Troy 6-4 at the 2022 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship Tournament in Montgomery, Ala., last weekend.
• The Chanticleers have had a losing record in neutral-site contests just once under head coach Gary Gilmore since 1996, going 0-1 in 2017.
  • Coastal Carolina finished the season at 15-10 in non-conference action while playing the second-hardest non-conference schedule in all of NCAA Division I baseball.
• The Chanticleers went 7-1 in non-conference play to start the season before dropping four consecutive non-conference games on the road to start the month of March and then closed the year out by winning eight of their final 12 non-conference games over the last two months of the regular season.
• CCU's last non-conference loss came at the 2022 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship Tournament, as the Chants fell to Troy 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
  • Coastal Carolina is the ONLY institution from the state of South Carolina to earn a spot in the NCAA Regionals this year.
• This season, the Chants played two teams from the Palmetto State in Clemson and the College of Charleston.
• The Chants went 2-0 and completed the season sweep of the Clemson Tigers with a 16-7 win at Clemson on March 22 and a 17-2 victory over the Tigers at home on May 17.
• CCU went 2-0 versus the College of Charleston with a 7-2, seven-inning win, on April 6, which was finally deemed an official game on May 14, and a 17-7 win at Charleston on April 26.
  • This season, the Chanticleers have struggled while playing in the Tar Heel State.
• Coastal is 0-7 this season when playing in the state of North Carolina, with a midweek road loss at UNCW (March 2), three losses at nationally-ranked North Carolina (March 4-6), and midweek road losses at Wake Forest (March 30), Charlotte (April 19), and UNC G (May 11).
  • Headlining the conference award winners for the Chants was redshirt senior left-handed pitcher Reid VanScoter who was named the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Year and also earned a spot on the All-Sun Belt first team.
• Senior pitcher Michael Knorr, senior designated hitter Tyler Johnson, and junior third baseman Dale Thomas were all named to the All-Sun Belt second team.
  • On top of earning All-Sun Belt second-team honors, Michael Knorr was also named to the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship All-Tournament team.
 
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