Several watch parties are planned across the Grand Strand on Friday as the Coastal Carolina University baseball team takes on Arizona in its bid for a second College World Series championship since winning it all in 2016.

When Chip Hale looked at the team he and his staff assembled last fall he felt it was one that could get Arizona back to the College World Series. The belief was so strong that T-shirts were made and a banner hung in the clubhouse about the Wildcats’ ‘Chasing Five,

The CWS opens Friday with the Sun Belt Conference's Coastal Carolina (53-11) playing the Big 12's Arizona (44-19) in a rematch of the 2016 finals won by the Chanticleers. No. 8 national seed Oregon State (47-14-1), an independent until the Pac-12 ramps up again in 2026-27, meets the ACC's Louisville (40-22) in the second game.

Chanticleer fever is in the air as the Men’s College World Series approaches, and the players aren’t the only ones looking forward to the game. “Everything was Chanticleer,” Myrtle Beach resident Brenda Laganelli said.

The NCAA Men's College World Series kicks off Friday in Omaha with eight teams vying for a national championship.

The NCAA baseball tournament will soon be trimmed down to eight teams. Here's a look at who is punching their ticket to the College World Series:

CONWAY, S.C. (WMBF) – Teal Nation is fired up for Coastal’s baseball team and the 2025 College World Series. The Coastal Carolina baseball team will be taking on Arizona at 2 p.m. EST on Friday in Omaha.

Here's what LSU baseball fans should know about Coastal Carolina before the College World Series begins later this week

Coastal Carolina’s return to Omaha for the MCWS is one built off the foundation of a former coach and on the wings of the longest win streak in college baseball.