NEW ORLEANS – After propelling Coastal Carolina to the championship series at the Men’s College World Series in Omaha, Neb., redshirt sophomore right-handed pitcher Jacob Morrison was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) District 4 (Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland) Player of the Year and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings National Pitcher of the Year. 
 
The Sun Belt Pitcher of the Year, Morrison compiled a 12-1 record with 104 strikeouts over 107.2 innings pitched during the 2025 season. The Flushing, Mich., native held opposing hitters to a .202 batting average, conceding just 79 hits and 29 runs during his redshirt sophomore campaign. Coastal Carolina won 16-of-18 games Morrison started, with Morrison taking his lone loss against LSU in the championship series of the Men’s College World Series. He led the nation with 10 starts of at least six innings, while allowing one or fewer runs. The only player with a season of more such outings in the last five years is LSU's Paul Skenes in 2023. 
 
Morrison contributed to a Coastal Carolina team that amassed a program-record and national-best 56 wins. The Chanticleers rattled off a 26-game winning streak, which included an unblemished postseason run before falling the LSU in the national championship final. Along the way, Coastal Carolina captured the Sun Belt regular-season and tournament titles and the Conway Regional and Auburn Super Regional Championships, before making a 3-0 run in Omaha to advance to the championship series. 
 
The Chanticleers carried the longest-ever winning streak into the Men’s College World Series (23 games) and into the national championship round (26 games)—snapping a 77-year-old record 18-game winning streak entering the national championship by USC in 1948 in the process. 
 
With Morrison as the ace of its rotation, Coastal Carolina returned to the Men’s College World Series (2016) and the championship series (2016) for the second time in program history and became the second Sun Belt team to compete in the Men’s College World Series (Louisiana 2000). The Chanticleers finished as the national runner-up, concluding the 2025 campaign ranked No. 2 in all five national polls.