2013-14 YEAR IN REVIEW
ATHLETIC HIGHLIGHTS
MEN’S BASKETBALL CLAIMS TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP; RETURNS TO NCAA TOURNAMENT FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1993 The Coastal Carolina men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1993. CCU took on top-seeded Virginia and led by 10 points with under five minutes to play in the first half before falling to the Cavaliers 70-59. The Chants captured the program’s third Big South Tournament championship and first since 1991 with a 76-61 victory over Winthrop in the VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Championship game. Freshman ELIJAH WILSON broke the CCU freshman scoring record (537), and freshman field goals made record (200) while leading the team with 15.8 points per game.
LORENZO TALIAFERRO VOTED 2013-14 BIG SOUTH MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Coastal Carolina football player LORENZO TALIAFERRO was voted the Big South Conference Male Student-Athlete of the Year for the 2013-14 season by the League’s Athletics Directors, Senior Woman Administrators and Sports Information Directors. Taliaferro is the first Chanticleer football player to win the award. He was a finalist for the Walter Payton Award as the top player in the FCS, a consensus All-American and the Big South’s Offensive Player of the Year. Taliaferro led the Chants to a 12-3 record and a quarterfinal appearance in the NCAA Division I Football Championship, the best football playoff finish by any Big South member. He additionally shattered 12 CCU single-season records and broke seven Big South single-season records in 2013, including points scored -- eclipsing the previous CCU mark by 88 points and the League mark by 36. Taliaferro ranked second in the nation in scoring (11.6 ppg) and finished the regular-season with Big South records of 27 total touchdowns and 25 rushing touchdowns.
FOOTBALL WINS SIXTH BIG SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP; ADVANCES TO PLAYOFF QUARTERFINALS Under second-year head coach JOE MOGLIA, who was a finalist for the second consecutive year for both the Eddie Robinson and Liberty Mutual FCS National Coach of the Year, the Chanticleers went 12-3 - setting a CCU record for wins; won their second straight Big South Championship sixth overall in 11 seasons of football; and reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Championship. Along the way, the Chants defeated four conference champions, were 4-2 against teams in the final national polls and compiled an 18-4 record spanning their last 22 games, including a 16-1 mark over their last 17 regular-season FCS opponents. The Chanticleers, who ranked as high as third before finishing seventh in the final national polls, set 25 offensive team records and 17 Big South offensive team records. Namely, the Chants set records for rushing touchdowns, passing touchdowns, total offense, first downs, points scored, total touchdowns, six 50-point games, point after kicks made and third down conversions. GOCCUSPORTS.COM
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