South Carolina baseball didn’t make it to Omaha in 2018, but after falling just one win short, plenty of people took notice of the job first-year coach Mark Kingston did with the Gamecocks.
After missing the NCAA tournament in 2017 and stumbling to a 20-17 record to start this year, USC exploded down the stretch, reeling off five consecutive SEC series wins, claiming an NCAA regional crown and taking eventual national runner-up Arkansas to three games on the road in a Super Regional.
Carolina finished the season on a 17-9 run and was ranked No.