Grand Strand viewer’s guide for the sports week ahead

▪ The Coastal Carolina men’s basketball team has two games this week as it plays at Akransas State at 7 p.m. Monday and hosts Georgia Southern at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

▪ The CCU women’s basketball team hosts Georgia State on Thursday (7 p.m.) and Georgia Southern on Saturday (1 p.m.).

▪ Coastal’s men’s tennis team plays at South Carolina State on Tuesday (2 p.m.) and hosts UNC Wilmington at 1 p.m. Friday.

▪ The Coastal Carolina women’s tennis team plays at UNC Greensboro (10 a.m.) and at North Carolina A&T (2:30 p.m.) on Saturday.

▪ CCU’s softball team kick off the season by hosting the Kickin’ Chicken Classic, in which it will play Alabama (3 p.m.) and Youngstown State (5:30 p.m.) Friday, Youngstown State (3 p.m.) and Towson (5:30 p.m.) Saturday and Alabama at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

▪ Coastal’s indoor track and field teams will compete in the Samford Invitational in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday.

▪ The CCU women’s golf team opens the spring portion of its schedule as it plays in the Florida State Match-Up in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday through Sunday.

▪ The Clemson men’s basketball team hosts Syracuse at 8 p.m. Tuesday and plays at Duke at 1 p.m. Saturday.

▪ The South Carolina men’s basketball team hosts Alabama at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and plays at Mississippi State at 8 p.m. Saturday.

▪ Fresh off a week off following the Australian Open, the men’s tennis gets back to action Monday with the ATP Open Sud de France and ATP Ecuardor Open Quito.

▪ The PGA Tour heads to Pebble Beach for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am from Thursday through Sunday.

This story was originally published February 6, 2017 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Grand Strand viewer’s guide for the sports week ahead."