The Marshall University baseball team (17-3, 7-5) faces No. 16 Florida Atlantic University (23-7, 9-3) this weekend in a three-game series at Linda K. Epling Stadium in Beckley, West Virginia.
Florida Atlantic, who sits in second place in Conference USA, is ranked 16th in the NCBWA poll and 17th in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Marshall enters the three-game series off to its best 30-game start since the 2001 season
Marshall traveled to Texas for a three-game series against University of Texas at San Antonio last weekend where it walked away with a series win that propelled the team past .