Coastal Carolina’s baseball team, coming off a 43-19 season in which it won the Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament championships, is ranked No. 12 in Collegiate Baseball’s Fabulous 40 NCAA Division I preseason poll.
The 2016 national champions garnered a total of 473 poll points, a mere 23 points behind No. 1 LSU. The Chants are just six points out of the top 10, are the top-ranked Sun Belt member and join No. 38 Louisiana as the only two conference schools in the top 40.
CCU had a trio of student-athletes in second baseman Cory Wood, pitcher Matt Eardensohn and first baseman Zach Biermann named to Collegiate Baseball’s 2019 Preseason All-America teams.