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The Southpaw Spark: Corey Braun and the Rise of USF Baseball

TAMPA, May 14, 2025— When the book is written about the transformation of USF baseball under head coach Mitch Hannahs and staff, when the ahead-of-schedule initial season is chronicled, left-hander Corey Braun will be in the first chapter.

The personality of these work-in-progress Bulls? They keep working. They keep improving. Heading into the final regular-season series (Thursday through Saturday) against the East Carolina Pirates, the home-standing Bulls (27-22, 14-10) remain in contention for a No. 2 seed in next week's American Athletic Conference Tournament at Clearwater.

It's a far cry from where the program has been in recent seasons.