We are one day away from the biggest home series in Auburn baseball history.

With Coastal Carolina in town for the super-regional round of the NCAA tournament, Plainsman Park is set to reach record setting numbers in crowd attendance.

In the regional last round, Plainsman Park grossed the largest three-game series crowd in program history with 22,17 total fans. Sunday night set a single game record of 7,373 people.

In preparation for the sold out crowd this weekend, Auburn has added extra general admission viewing on main terrace and right field rooftop.

For Auburn coach Butch Thompson, hosting the hottest team in college baseball is the only way he wants his group to earn its trip to the College World Series.

“They’re a handful. The most wins, (in the country) and I guess the 21 games in a row. It’s a real ball club. Hopefully, those 10 weeks of SEC prepared us. I don’t want us to change. We have an identity, this is who we are,” Thompson said to members of the media Thursday.

“What I’ve got from Coastal is just the freebie-championship-type team. And when I say that I look at a team with 165 hit-by-pitches, over 106 stolen bases, and a ton of walks.”

Auburn never trailed in the regional, outscoring Central Connecticut State, Stetson and NC State 28-11 last weekend.

Four of the freshman on the team exploded for big performances as Chris Rembert, Bub Terrell and Chase Fralick combined for 10 hits, seven RBI and six runs, while winning pitcher Andreas Alvarez threw five scoreless innings.

“I’m looking forward to a great weekend and competing against Coastal Carolina,” senior infielder Cooper McMurray said. “They have a really good pitching staff and hopefully our guys are up for the challenge. We all really excited to get going.”

Coastal Carolina holds the best record in the country standing at 51-11 overall. It’s current 21-game winning streak has been anchored by Sun Belt pitcher of the year Jacob Morrison.

The Chanticleers also average the same number of runs per game as Auburn (7.60) and lead the country in hit by pitch, ranking the teams on base percentage in the top 50.

“Offensively, it’s more of they basically want to score one run an inning. They want to get a guy on, get him over and get him in type of offense. And if you make a mistake in that and they sacrifice bunt and you misplay it, that’s when their innings turn into big innings,” Auburn outfielder Ike Irish said.

“Pitching-wise, it’s power stuff. It’s power from the first two guys and the third one is a sinker-baller so not as much power. On the backend, they’ve got a power lefty and a power righty to close it out. I think as an offense, we’ve got to try to win the middle innings.”

Game 1 between Auburn and Coastal Carolina is scheduled for 8 p.m. CT on Friday. First pitch of Game 2 is set for 2 p.m. on Saturday and the start time for Game 3 on Sunday (if necessary) is to be determined.

Jerry Humphrey III covers Auburn sports forAL.com. You can follow him on X at @Jerryhump3or email him at [email protected].