Coastal Carolina will host two-time defending Southern Conference tournament champion Mercer on Thursday in the first round of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Tournament.
Coastal has requested a game time of 7 p.m. but a start time hadn’t been determined early Monday afternoon, shortly after the NCAA tournament bracket was announced.
Mercer (7-8-6) upset the top two seeds in the Southern Conference tournament – East Tennessee State and UNC Greensboro – in penalty kicks in the final two games of the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
The Chanticleers (12-6-1) have won the Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament titles in both of its years in the conference, and have won five straight games and are unbeaten in their past nine at 8-0-1.