CONWAY, S.C. – The No. 17 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will wrap up its five-game road swing at in-state foe Clemson on Tuesday, April 3. First pitch is schedule for 6 p.m. ET at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
  Tuesday, April 4
6 p.m. ET – CU - LHP Ethan Darden (1-1, 4.87 ERA) vs. CCU - LHP Levi Huesman (1-2, 5.89 ERA)
  •  Coastal Carolina is 18-7 overall this season and has won four-straight games entering Tuesday night's contest at Clemson.
• CCU has won each of its first four games on the current five-game road trip and is coming off a 3-0 series sweep over Georgia State Panthers in Sun Belt play.
• The Chanticleers are 6-2 in road games this season, which includes a midweek road win at then-No. 13 North Carolina (March 28) last week.
• In the Chants' 18 wins this season, they have scored double-digit runs in 15 of them and are averaging 13.1 runs per game over their 18 victories to date.
• As a team, the Chants are hitting .330 overall, which leads the Sun Belt and ranks sixth in all of NCAA Division I baseball, as 11 different players are hitting over .300 on the season.
• The offense is also first in the Sun Belt and ranks third nationally in scoring (10.6), fourth in on-base percentage (.442), sixth in hit-by-pitch (67), and 14th in doubles (66).
• CCU's pitching staff has struck out 276 batters compared to just 119 walks on the year and leads the Sun Belt with an average of 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
  • Clemson enters the midweek contest at 16-13 overall and 2-7 in ACC play.
• Under new head coach Erik Bakich, the Tigers have dropped five of their last seven games but are 13-8 overall at home this year.
• The Tigers have fared well in midweek play this year, as Clemson is 7-1 overall in midweek contests, with the lone loss coming in Greenville, S.C., versus USC Upstate (Feb. 28).
• Offensively, the Tigers are hitting .290 as a team with 26 home runs, six triples, 57 doubles, and 180 RBIs.
• Clemson has done most of its work on the base paths, as the Tigers have stolen 56 bases this season, 43 more than they have allowed this year.
• The Clemson pitching staff has posted a 4.88 ERA this season and has held their opponents to a .265 batting average.
• The Tigers' arms have struck out 289 hitters compared to 120 walks over 258.1 innings this season and have 13 different pitchers with double-digit strikeouts.
  • Clemson holds a decisive 47-12 advantage over Coastal in the all-time series.
• However, the times are changing, as the Chants have won four of the last 10 meetings and are riding a two-game winning streak over the Tigers, having swept the home-and-home series last year.
• In fact, last season the Chants outscored the Tigers 33-9 in the two wins, a 16-7 win at Clemson (March 22) and a 17-2 win at home in Conway (May 17).
  • For the first time this season, the Chanticleers were ranked in a national top-25 poll on March 27.
• Coastal came in at No. 19 in the D1Baseball Top 25 Rankings and in at No. 28 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) NCAA Division I poll last week.
• This week, the Chants are in all six polls - No. 17 (D1Baseball), No. 20 (Perfect Game), No. 20 (NCBWA), No. 21 (USA TODAY Sports coaches poll), No. 22 (Baseball America), and No. 27 (Collegiate Baseball).
  • The midweek matchup at Clemson (April 4) will be the last of five consecutive road games for the Chanticleers over the past two weeks.
• The five-game road swing, which is tied for the longest of the season for the Chants, included stops at North Carolina (March 28), Georgia State (March 31-April 2), and now Clemson (April 4).
• Coastal is a perfect 4-0 on the current road trip, which includes three come-from-behind wins.
  • CCU's matchup with Clemson will mark the fourth of four Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) opponents that the Chanticleers will take on this season.
• Coastal played NC State out of the ACC in a midweek contest on Feb. 22, fellow ACC member Wake Forest on March 7, and the North Carolina Tar Heels on March 28.
• The Chants are also scheduled to play one more game versus Wake Forest (April 25), another one versus Clemson (May 10), and one more contest with North Carolina (May 16).
• Entering Tuesday's tilt, Coastal is 2-1 versus the ACC this season with a 16-4 loss to NC State (Feb. 22), a 13-11 win over Wake Forest (March 7), and a 12-7 victory at North Carolina (March 28).
  • Coastal has played four nationally-ranked top-25 teams so far this season in No. 21 NC State (Feb. 22), No. 2/5 Wake Forest (March 7), No. 19 Campbell (March 14), and No. 13 North Carolina (March 28).
• The Chanticleers are 3-1 versus top 25 ranked teams this season.
• Coastal suffered a 16-5 midweek home loss to then-No. 21 NC State on Feb. 22 at Springs Brooks Stadium, but since then has won each of its last three games versus ranked foes.
• CCU won a wild one by the score of 13-11 in a midweek home contest versus then-No. 2/5 Wake Forest on March 7 at Springs Brooks Stadium.
• The Chants outslugged then-No. 19 Campbell 12-9 on March 14 in a game that saw a combined seven home runs leave the ballpark.
• Just last week, the Chanticleers scored eight runs in the top of the eighth inning to record a 12-7 come-from-behind win on the road at No. 13 North Carolina in midweek action on March 28.
  • Over the last week of play, the Chanticleers have been the comeback kids.
• During the current four-game winning streak, Coastal recorded come-from-behind wins at North Carolina (March 28) and a pair of comeback wins in back-to-back victories at Georgia State (April 1 & 2).
• In CCU's 12-7 win at North Carolina (March 28), the Chants scored eight runs in the eighth inning to come back from a 7-4 deficit after seven innings of play.
• Coastal erased an 8-0 deficit with three runs in the fourth, sixth in the six, and one more in the ninth inning in a 10-8 come-from-behind win over Georgia State (April 1) in game two of the three-game SBC series.
• The next day, in the series finale, the Chants trailed 6-3 to the Panthers (April 2) going into the ninth inning and scored the final five runs of the game to win 8-6 in 10 innings to complete the three-game series sweep.
 
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