Gamecocks left out of NCAA Tournament for first time since 1999 - Charleston Post Courier
South Carolina’s run of 15 consecutive bids to the NCAA Baseball Tournament, the longest active streak in the SEC and the fifth-longest active streak nationally, came to an end Monday when the Gamecocks were left out of the field of 64. It marked... This baseball program has been good for a long, long time, and will continue to be good for a long, long time. As bad as I feel, you can’t have great years — or even sometimes good years — every year. But this isn’t who we are, and this isn’t who we’re going to be. We’re going to move forward the right way. South Carolina finished at 32-25 overall, but with the program’s first losing record in SEC play since 1997, Tanner’s first season. The Gamecocks won 13 regular-season SEC games, and although four league teams over the past decade have earned bids with that mark, a string of mid-week losses to smaller in-state opponents pushed USC’s RPI down to 63, which was too low to merit... USC’s season ended last week in an opening-round loss to Missouri in the SEC Tournament, the Gamecocks’ sixth consecutive loss in the event. South Carolina crawled back into NCAA contention thanks to a six-game stretch late in the season where it went 5-1, scored 63 runs, and won a series at nationally-ranked Texas A&M. But USC managed only a combined four runs and 13 hits over its... Source: www.postandcourier.com
