2018 NCAA Tournament Central: Northeastern (36-19, 17-6 CAA) at the Raleigh Regional
Regional Game	Opponent		Probables	Coverage	NU Progression
Game 1 Friday, June 1 2 p.m.			Tyler Brown (8-3, 4.20 ERA) vs. Tanner Burns (6-4, 3.13 ERA)	Stats ESPN3 WatchESPN app	Win: Advances to Game 4 (Saturday, June 2, 7 p.m.) Loss: Advances to Game 3 (Saturday, June 2, 2 p.m.)
Game 3 Saturday, June 2 2 p.m.			David Stiehl (3-1, 3.83 ERA) vs. Brian Brown (6-2, 2.71 ERA)	Stats ESPN3 WatchESPN app	Win: Advances to Game 5 (Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m.) Loss: Eliminated
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BOSTON – Deserving of its at-large bid to the 2018 NCAA tournament, the Northeastern baseball team will begin its road to Omaha and the College World Series on Friday, June 1, when NU descends on the Raleigh Regional, as hosted by the No. 16 national seed, North Carolina State. The third-seeded Huskies will open the four-team, double-elimination regional against second-seeded Auburn – a rematch of the two programs' competitive, regular-season series that was contested at the Tigers' Plainsman Park on March 9 and March 10.
 
Joining Northeastern in the Raleigh Regional are the top-seeded host, North Carolina State, and fourth-seeded Army West Point.
 
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ALL-TIME AGAINST THE FIELD
 
• [1] No. 11 North Carolina State: Northeastern trails the all-time series, 4-0. The Huskies and the Wolfpack met in the Mideast Regional (hosted by Tennessee) of the 1994 NCAA tournament, while NU lost a three-game true road series at No. 20 North Carolina State during the 2004 season.
 
• [2] No. 21 Auburn: The Huskies trail the all-time series, 2-1, having opposed the Tigers exclusively during the 2018 season. On March 9, Auburn's Casey Mize threw the Tigers' ninth no-hitter in program history as the Huskies were shut out, 6-0. With weather creating a March 10 doubleheader between the two sides, Northeastern lost the opening game, 14-8, to the Tigers – despite NU rallying for seven ninth-inning runs – but went on to hand then-undefeated Auburn its first loss of the season during the nightcap as Sean Mellen came within four outs of throwing the Huskies' first no-hitter since 2006.
 
• [4] Army West Point: Northeastern has won the only series meeting against Army, defeating the Black Knights, 9-2, on March 22, 2013, during a neutral-site game in Bradenton, Florida. Of note, the Huskies traveled to West Point during October 2017 to play a fall exhibition game against Army, during which NU shut out the Black Knights, 3-0, across 10 pre-determined innings. Upon the completion of the game, Army's captains escorted the Huskies on a tour of West Point's historic campus.
 
RECORD-BREAKING SEASON
 
• Northeastern's 36 wins this season rank as the program's single-season record, having surpassed the team's two 35-win campaigns during 1991 and 1994 – the latter of two teams current NU head coach Mike Glavine played on.
 
• The Huskies' .739 winning percentage during CAA games (17-6) is the highest mark that Northeastern has attained during its 13 seasons in the league.
 
• NU set another CAA-era record when it placed nine student-athletes onto the year-end all-conference teams, split evenly – three apiece – across the All-CAA First Team (junior outfielder Charlie McConnell, junior third baseman Ryan Solomon, and sophomore starting pitcher Sean Mellen), the All-CAA Second Team (junior first baseman Jake Farrell, redshirt-freshman second baseman Ian Fair, and senior outfielder Mason Koppens), and the All-CAA Third Team (senior shortstop Max Burt, redshirt-junior starting pitcher Tyler Brown, and junior relief pitcher Andrew Misiaszek).
 
• Northeastern is the first team to repeat as the outright CAA regular-season champion since UNCW, which won consecutive titles during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
 
• The Huskies' streak of six consecutive CAA tournament appearances (2013-18) ranks as the second longest active streak behind UNCW, which is the only CAA member school to be advance to all 33 conference tournaments during league history.
 
• During the 2018 CAA tournament, Northeastern made its deepest run, surviving two consecutive elimination games to advance to its first-ever CAA championship round. There, the Huskies defeated UNCW, 3-2, during game one to force the tournament's decisive, winner-take-all finale, during which NU was defeated, 7-4, by the Seahawks.
 
• Northeastern placed four student-athletes onto the 2018 CAA All-Tournament Team: redshirt-freshman second baseman Ian Fair, sophomore designated hitter Scott Holzwasser, junior first baseman Jake Farrell, and redshirt-sophomore reliever Kyle Murphy.
 
HUSKIES IN THE NCAA TOURNEY
 
• Northeastern enters the 2018 NCAA tournament riding its first at-large berth since 1973 during the pre-automatic bid era.
 
• The Huskies' 2018 trip to the NCAA tourney marks their eighth appearance during program history and their first since 2003, when NU won the America East postseason championship. Northeastern is 6-14 all-time in the NCAA tournament and has made one College World Series appearance (1966).
 
• Since the NCAA tournament field expanded to welcome 48 teams in 1988, Northeastern has gone winless during its six regional games. However, the Huskies did sweep Bethune-Cookman, two games to none, during the 1994 tournament's best-of-three play-in series, winning both games at Friedman Diamond.
 
• Northeastern has made one prior NCAA tournament appearance against the 2018 Raleigh Regional field. The Huskies opposed North Carolina State during a 1994 Mideast Regional elimination game that was hosted by Tennessee, but lost to the Wolfpack, 5-2.
 
DIAMOND ACHIEVEMENTS
 
• Senior shortstop Max Burt is the only player in program history to make at least 200 career appearances and record 200 or more hits at Northeastern. Burt – since nicknamed the Huskies' "Mr. 200" – continues to ride his career-opening streak of 222 consecutive games played and enters the 2018 NCAA tournament ranked in sole possession of sixth place on Northeastern's all-time hits list (213).
 

NORTHEASTERN BASEBALL 200-HIT CLUB
Rank	Player	Years	NU Hits
1.	Mike Tamsin	2007-09	271
2.	Matt Miller	2009-12	246
3.	Chris Emanuele	2003-06	227
4.	Aaron Barbosa	2011-13	217
5.	Kevin Kim	1996-99	215
6.	Max Burt	2015-18	213
7.	Michael Foster	2012-15	212

• Lefty closer Andrew Misiaszek is Northeastern's single-season saves leader (12), setting the record upon putting the finishing touches on the Huskies' regular-season finale that clinched NU its second consecutive title. This year, Misiaszek has accounted for 12 of the Northeastern bullpen's 20 saves, which collectively are the most that the Huskies have recorded during the program's CAA era (since 2006).
 
• Charlie McConnell is undoubtedly Northeastern's stolen base king as the junior speedster is in possession of both the Huskies' all-time (76) and single-season (37) records, thieving bases at a rate of 85.4 percent across his three-year career. Considering McConnell's single-season mark during 2018, he ranks second among Division I players, trailing only Army West Point's Jacob Hurtubise (40 steals), who will also be competing in this weekend's Raleigh Regional.
 
• Sean Mellen completed the 2018 regular season with a 10-1 record en route to being named to the All-CAA First Team and collecting NEIBA (New England) Pitcher of the Year honors. Mellen is currently tied for the Northeastern program record for the most single-season victories with Peter Schultz, who won 10 games during the 1994 season and was a member of the Huskies' fifth NCAA tournament team.
 
• Jake Farrell needs one triple to tie his head coach, Mike Glavine, for the Northeastern single-season record. Glavine hit eight triples during his 1992 rookie season. Farrell also enters the 2018 NCAA tournament needed two bases to tie Mike Lyon's single-season program record (138), set during the 2008 season. This year, Farrell leads the Huskies in all extra-base hit categories (15 doubles, seven triples, 11 home runs), in addition to RBIs (61) and slugging percentage (.627).

• Redshirt-freshmen Ian Fair set the program's longest hitting streak at 22 games between March 20 and May 1, in addition to holding a 35-game on-base streak from March 20 to May 18.