Coastal's main Sun Belt rivals are Appalachian State and Georgia Southern.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the SBC sponsors all of Coastal's sports except women's lacrosse, which plays in the ASUN Conference.

It was also the first national title ever won by a Big South Conference member in a team sport, and came the day before Coastal joined the Sun Belt.

After losing to Winthrop at home in the conference championship game, the team suffered a 65–49 loss at UAB in the first round of the 2010 NIT.

The 2010–11 CCU Basketball team would also finish with a 28–6 record, at one time winning 22 consecutive games.

In 2015, Coastal Carolina again returned to the NCAA tournament after beating Winthrop, for the second year in a row, in the Big South Conference championship game 70–81.

The Coastal Carolina's men's golf program is led by head coach Jim Garren who was hired on July 20, 2017.

The 2004–05 team broke onto the national scene by finishing the regular season ranked sixth in the NCAA's South region.

The 2007–08 team struggled with the loss of All-American Dustin Johnson, finishing 22nd in the NCAA East Regional.

Johnson would finish his collegiate career as a three-time All-American, and has since moved onto the PGA Tour and won his first major championship in 2016, as well as the 2020 Masters.

[citation needed] The Coastal Carolina men's soccer program is coached by Shaun Docking.