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LEXINGTON, Ky. --- The Kentucky baseball team’s quest for a Southeastern Conference championship may have fell just short over the weekend in Florida, but the program’s rebuilding effort under first-year coach Nick Mingione remains ahead of schedule.
“I don’t want to say it’s surreal, but I don’t think Nick every thought it (would happen this fast),” UK athletics director Mitch Barnhart said in an interview with the Courier-Journal. “That’s the amazing thing. I don’t think he ever thought it. I don’t know what he would say, but to think we would be in this spot at the beginning of the year, I don’t think so.