CONWAY, S.C. – No. 8 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will host the No. 10/16 Clemson Tigers in a pivotal non-conference midweek matchup on Wednesday, May 10, at 6 p.m. ET at Springs Brooks Stadium.
 
The game will be carried live on ESPN+ and WRNN Hot Talk 99.5 FM.
  Wednesday, May 10
6 p.m. ET – CU - LHP Tristan Smith (0-1, 5.55 ERA) vs. CCU - RHP Will Smith (3-1, 7.52 ERA)
  • Standing-room-only tickets are still available for the top-25 midweek matchup at Springs Brooks Stadium.
  • "FanFest @ Teal Town" presented by Grand Strand Nissan, will kick off at 4 p.m. ET and be located at Gate 1 outside of Springs Brooks Stadium.
• Teal Town will feature face painting, a gaming truck, a fire rescue simulation truck, and a special appearance from Chauncey himself. Tropical Sno will also be in Teal Town selling snow cones.
  • Coastal Carolina is 30-16 overall and 17-7 in Sun Belt Conference play this year.
• However, the Chanticleers are just 13-9 in non-conference play.
• CCU has won 16 of its last 25 games but is just 5-5 over its last 10 games.
• This season, the Chanticleers are 19-9 at home inside Springs Brooks Stadium, including an 11-5 mark in non-conference play.
• As a team, the Chants are hitting .306 overall, which leads the Sun Belt and ranks 25th nationally, as eight players are hitting over .300 on the season.
• The offense leads the Sun Belt in eight offensive statistical categories - runs (431), scoring (9.4), batting average (.306), on-base percentage (.416), slugging percentage (.540), doubles (110), and doubles per game (2.39).
• CCU's pitching staff has struck out 502 batters compared to just 229 walks on the year and leads the Sun Belt with an average of 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings, which ranks seventh nationally.
• Defensively, the Chants lead the SBC and rank fifth nationally with 46 double plays turned and are third in the league with a .970 fielding percentage overall.
  • The Clemson Tigers have entered the national rankings and are 31-17 overall and 14-10 in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
• The Tigers have won four consecutive games entering the midweek contest and nine of their last 10 contests.
• Clemson's offense has moved up among the leaders in the ACC, hitting .298 with 492 hits, 101 doubles, and 27 sacrifice flies, which all rank in the top five of the league.
• The Tigers have been tearing up the base paths, as they are second in the ACC with 69 stolen bases and an average of 1.44 per game.
• The pitching staff has posted an ERA of 4.42, having allowed 208 earned runs over 423.1 innings of work.
• Clemson's pitchers have struck out 457 hitters compared to just 180 walks on the season and have held their opponents to a .249 average at the plate.
  • Clemson holds a decisive 48-12 advantage over Coastal in the all-time series.
• The Tigers defeated the Chants 16-6 in seven innings in the previous matchup this season back on April 4 in Clemson, S.C.
• Last season, the Chants outscored the Tigers 33-9 in the two wins, a 16-7 win at Clemson (March 22, 2022) and a 17-2 win at home in Conway (May 17, 2022).
  • 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 six weeks.
• In the most recent polls that came out on May 8, the Chants were in all six polls - No. 8 (Perfect Game), No. 8 (Baseball America), No. 8 (D1Baseball), No. 9 (USA Today Coaches Pol), No. 10 (NCBWA), and No. 19 (Collegiate Baseball).
• The last time that the Chanticleers were ranked in the top 10 in the majority of the national polls prior to this season 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 16-8 overall.
  • This season, the Chanticleers have played one of the toughest schedules in all of NCAA Division I.
• In fact, Chants have the second-toughest schedule in all of NCAA Division I baseball to date, according to the NCAA.
*as of May 8
  • Coastal has played 10 games against five 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), and again at No. 2 Wake Forest (April 25).
• The Chanticleers are 6-4 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 then 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.
• Most recently, 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.
  • The Chanticleers can take some credit for the turnaround for the Clemson Tigers this season.
• When the two teams met back on April 4, Clemson was 16-13 overall.
• Counting the Tigers' 16-6 seven-inning win at home over the Chanticleers on April 4, Clemson has gone 15-4 overall.
  • However, since the Chanticleers suffered the road loss at Clemson (April 4), which snapped a four-game winning streak, CCU has gone just 12-9 overall.
  • This season, the Chanticleers are 13-9 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.
  • This season, the Chants are 5-6 this season in midweek action and 3-2 in those games played at home.
• The Chants have defeated multiple ranked teams No. 2/5 Wake Forest (March 7), No. 19 Campbell (March 14), at No. 13 North Carolina (March 28), and at No. 14 Campbell (April 11) in midweek play.
  • Coastal is 2-3 versus the ACC this season with a 16-4 loss to NC State (Feb. 22), a 13-11 win over Wake Forest (March 7), a 12-7 victory at North Carolina (March 28), and back-to-back road losses at Clemson (April 4) and Wake Forest (April 25).
• The Chants are also scheduled to play one more game versus Clemson (May 10) and one more contest with North Carolina (May 16) later this season.
  • Coastal has played two teams from the Palmetto State this season in the College of Charleston and Clemson.
• This year, the Chants are 1-2 versus teams from its home state with a 4-3 loss at CofC back on Feb. 28, a 16-6 defeat to Clemson on the road on April 4, and a 12-4 midweek win at home over Charleston on April 19.
• Last year, the Chants were a perfect 4-0 versus teams from the state of South Carolina on the season with two wins each over Clemson and Charleston.
  • This season, the Chanticleers have not lost two games to the same team all season long.
• CCU's 16 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), Louisiana (April 28), Charlotte (May 2), and Appalachian State (May 5).
 
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