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How UNC baseball stacks up against Stetson heading into the super regional round

North Carolina's baseball team won its regional for the first time in five years this past weekend, beating N.C. A&T and Houston, twice, along the way.

But it only gets tougher from here, as UNC (41-18) will face a Stetson (48-11) team that has the best overall earned run average (2.50) in the country. Stetson is riding an 18-game winning streak, which is also the best in the nation.

"They're pitching numbers, yeah, they're scary," UNC coach Mike Fox said Thursday. "Six hundred and seventy-something strikeouts as a staff? That's mind-boggling."

"We're going to have to match them on the mound for sure.