Coastal Carolina comes to roost in Baton Rouge for their Super Regional matchup with the Tigers
The first thing Paul Manieiri told his club when he began talking to them about the Super Regionals was that they should remove "Coastal Carolina" from their minds and think they're playing Texas A&M.
And he's absolutely right. And then some. Coastal has always been a good baseball team but is just starting to hit their stride in terms of national prominence.
Coastal Carolina's baseball program began in 1954, four years after the university was established in Conway, South Carolina (just eight miles away from Myrtle Beach) as Coastal Carolina Junior College, an extension of the College of Charleston.