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Should Nick Mingione be retained as UK baseball head coach?

In his first year as Kentucky’s head baseball coach in 2017, Nick Mingione led the Bat Cats to historic success.

The team went 43-23 and won their first-ever NCAA Tournament Regional before being swept by rival Louisville in the program’s first-ever Super Regional appearance.

Ever since then, it’s been a disappointment on the diamond for the program. In 2018, the Cats suffered a late-season collapse that resulted in them missing the NCAA Tournament.

In 2019 during their first year at Kentucky Proud Park, the Cats went 26-29 with an SEC record of 7-23 that left them out of the SEC Tournament.