CONWAY, S.C. – The No. 8 nationally-ranked and 2023 Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season Champions Coastal Carolina will welcome No. 17 Duke, UNCW, and Rider to Springs Brooks Stadium for the 2023 NCAA Conway Regional on June 2-5.
 
The Chanticleers (39-19) will square off against No. 4 Rider (35-19) in the first round of regional play Friday, June 2, at 7 p.m. ET, while No. 2 Duke (35-21) will face No. 3 UNCW (34-21) at 1 p.m. ET.

  • All-Regional session tickets (standing-room-only) for the Conway Regional remain and are available for $50.
 
• Tickets for single games, if available, are priced at $15, $12, and $10 and will go on sale Thursday, June 1, at 9 a.m. ET.
 
• Tickets can be purchased online at GoCCUsports.com/tickets or over the phone by calling 843-347-8499 during normal business hours (9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET) from Tuesday through Thursday.

• Parking passes will also be available and can be purchased online at GoCCUsports.com/2023NCAAParking.

  Friday, June 2 (ESPN+)
Game 1: (3) UNCW vs. (2) Duke (1 p.m. ET)
Game 2: (4) Rider vs. (1) Coastal Carolina (7 p.m. ET)

Saturday, June 4 (network TBD)
Game 3: Loser G1 vs. Loser G2 (Noon ET)
Game 4: Winner G1 vs. Winner G2 (6 p.m. ET)
 
Sunday, June 4 (network TBD)
Game 5: Winner G3 vs. Loser G4 (Noon ET)
Game 6: Winner G4 vs. Winner G5 (6 p.m. ET)
 
Monday, June 5 (network TBD)
Game 7: Winner G6 vs. Loser G6 (TBD - IF NECESSARY)


  • Coastal Carolina is making the program's 19th NCAA Regional appearance this weekend as the Chanticleers host the NCAA Conway Regional.
• The Chanticleers have made 18 NCAA Regionals under head coach Gary Gilmore, all since the NCAA went to 64 teams in 1999.
• The 18 NCAA Regional appearances since 1999 by the Chanticleers are tied for the 16th-most in all of NCAA Division I baseball.
 
  • Coastal is 34-38 (.472) all-time in NCAA Championship Tournament play entering the NCAA Conway Regional this weekend in Springs Brooks Stadium.
• The Chanticleers are 26-32 (.448) 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.
 
  • Coastal is hosting an NCAA Regional for the fifth time in program history (2007, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2023).
• The 2023 NCAA Conway Regional will be the second held at Vrooman Field at Springs Brooks Stadium since the stadium opened in 2015.
• While Springs Brooks Stadium will welcome its second NCAA postseason event, Coastal Carolina has also hosted opening round regional tournaments on three prior occasions at different venues.
• The Chanticleers first hosted back in 2007 at what was then Coastal Federal Field (Myrtle Beach Pelicans Stadium).
• CCU then hosted a regional on campus at Vrooman Field at Charles L. Watson Stadium in 2008.
• Coastal then returned to Myrtle Beach in 2010 at BB&T Coastal Field (Myrtle Beach Pelicans Stadium) and most recently hosted an NCAA Regional in 2018 at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 
  • Coastal has played at home in five NCAA Regionals and one Super Regional since 1999.
• The Chanticleers are 10-5 in Regional play and 0-2 in Super Regional action when hosting.
• In the two regionals that the Chants have hosted on the campus of Coastal Carolina University (2008 and 2018), CCU is a combined 4-2 overall (3-0 in 2008 and 1-2 in 2018).
 
  • Coastal Carolina has played all three of the other teams in the Conway Regional field in Duke, UNCW, and Rider but have never played any of the three teams in NCAA postseason play.
• Overall, the Chants are 65-39 versus UNCW, 2-3 against the Blue Devils, and 2-0 versus Rider.
 
  • Coastal Carolina used a three-game sweep of Marshall (May 19-20) over the final weekend of the regular season to win the 2023 Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season Championship title outright.
• The 2023 regular-season championship is the 19th overall for the program and the third since the Chants joined the Sun Belt Conference prior to the 2017 season.
 
Sun Belt Regular-Season Championships:
2017, 2018, 2023
 
Big South Regular-Season Championships:
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
 
  • 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 at No. 28 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) NCAA Division I poll in that poll on March 27.
• Since then, the Chants have been in at least one national poll in each of the last eight weeks.
• In the most recent polls that came out on May 29, the Chants were in all six polls - No. 8 (USA Today Coaches Poll), No. 8 (Perfect Game), No. 8 (Baseball America), No. 9 (D1Baseball), No. 9 (NCBWA), and No. 12 (Collegiate Baseball).
• Prior to this season, the last time that the Chanticleers were ranked in the top 10 in the majority of the national polls was back in 2010, when they broke into the top 10 in three of the five polls on April 19, 2010.
• Since being ranked, the Chanticleers have gone 25-11 overall.
 
  • The Chanticleers had two players named to the 2023 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship All-Tournament team in Liam Doyle and Teddy Sharkey.
• Doyle recorded his second-straight quality start and picked up his third win of the season by holding Georgia State to one run on three hits, three walks, and seven strikeouts over 6.0 innings in the 5-4 win in the second round.
• Sharkey pitched in three of the Chants' four games at the tournament, picking up saves in the back-to-back wins over Georgia State (May 24) and Louisiana (May 25). Overall, he was 0-0 with two saves and a 2.08 ERA over 4.1 innings of work. He allowed one run on one hit and struck out seven hitters in his three outings.
 
  • Headlining the conference award winners for the Chants was head coach Gary Gilmore being named the Ron Maestri Coach of the Year and Caden Bodine tabbed the 2023 Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year.
• Bodine was joined on the All-Sun Belt first team by junior Teddy Sharkey (RP), super senior Nick Lucky (OF), and sophomore Derek Bender (DH).
• Named to the All-Sun Belt second team were senior Zack Beach (1B), super senior Payton Eeles (2B), and senior Graham Brown (OF).
 
  • 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 NCAA Conway Regional having won nine of their last 11 contests.
• In May, the Chants went a combined 11-5 overall and won each of its last eight games versus conference opponents.
 
  • This season, the Chanticleers are 16-12 overall in non-conference play.
• The Chants have two midweek wins over ranked foes Campbell (March 14 and April 11), and one each over ranked opponents Wake Forest (March 7) and North Carolina (March 28), as well as a three-game series sweep over Davidson (March 3-5) and a series win over Creighton (Feb. 24-26).
• CCU and Illinois (March 10 & 11) also split a series 1-1, which saw the rubber match washed out.
• The Chanticleers also went 2-2 in the 2023 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship Tournament with wins over Georgia State (May 24) and Louisiana (May 25).
 
  • Coastal is on the verge of another 40-win season, the first since winning 43 games back in 2018.
• If the Chants accomplish the 40-win feat, it will mark the 15th season in which the Chanticleers have posted 40 wins or more under head coach Gary Gilmore who took over the program in 1996.
 
  • This season, the Chanticleers have lost two games to the same team only twice.
• The Chants lost twice this season to the Clemson Tigers, a road loss at Clemson on April 4 and a home defeat in Conway, S.C., on May 10.
• The only other team to defeat the Chants more than once this season was Louisiana, as the Ragin' Cajuns took one game in the three-game series with CCU on April 28 in Lafayette, La., and then posted back-to-back wins over Coastal in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament on May 27.
• Overall, CCU's 19 losses have come to 16 different teams, with one loss each to VCU (Feb. 19), No. 21 NC State (Feb. 22), Creighton (Feb. 26), College of Charleston (Feb. 28), Illinois (March 11), James Madison (March 18), Texas State (March 25), Clemson (April 4), Georgia Southern (April 7), No. 14 Campbell (April 10), Old Dominion (April 14), No. 23/24 Southern Miss (April 23), No. 2 Wake Forest (April 25), Charlotte (May 2), and Appalachian State (May 5), the two defeats to Clemson, and three losses to Louisiana.
 
  • Coastal has played 11 games against six 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), No. 13 North Carolina (March 28), again versus No. 14 Campbell (April 10 & 11), versus No. 23/24 Southern Miss (April 23-24), again at No. 2 Wake Forest (April 25), and at home versus No. 10/16 Clemson (May 10).
• The Chanticleers are 6-5 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 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 in a 12-9 win on March 14 in a game that saw a combined seven home runs leave the ballpark.
• 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.
• CCU split back-to-back midweek road games at No. 14 Campbell (April 10 & 11), falling 9-4 on Monday before taking the season series with a 5-3 win on Tuesday.
• Coastal took two-of-three games at home versus No. 23/24 Southern Miss (April 21-23) in Sun Belt Conference play, outscoring the Golden Eagles 42-29 in the three games.
• The Chanticleers were defeated by No. 2 Wake Forest (April 25) 11-1 in seven innings in Winston-Salem, N.C., in midweek non-conference action.
• Most recently, Coastal dropped a home midweek contest to No. 10/16 Clemson (May 10) 13-6.
 
  • This season, Coastal played 33 home games over the regular season versus teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big East, Conference USA, Atlantic 10, and the new look Sun Belt Conference.
• Since 2000, the Chants have recorded 20 wins or more at home in all but four years, one of which was the shortened 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• This season, the Chants finished their regular-season home slate at 23-10 overall.
• Since Coastal joined the Sun Belt Conference in 2017, the Chants have posted a record of 144-66-2 (68.4 percent) at home at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 

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