The East Carolina Pirates were seeded 12th overall for the 2018 NCAA Baseball Tournament and are the top seed in the Greenville Regional that they are hosting to open tournament play this weekend. The Pirates had a great season and enter the tournament with a 43-16 (14-10 AAC) record. They had a pair of wins over national seed UNC early in the season and won the American Athletic Conference Tournament title last weekend.
ECU has a solid offense, batting .287 as a team with a .379 OBP and .432 slugging percentage. Bryant Packard (.403/.460/.680) leads the Pirate offense and was the AAC Player of the Year.