To say Kentucky baseball coach Nick Mingione’s first season with the Cats was a smashing success understates it.
Picked no better than a tie for fourth place in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division, Mingione took a largely untested and unheralded 2017 team to the program’s first-ever appearance in an NCAA Tournament super regional, one rung away from the eight-team College World Series.
The highlights were many, and Mingione confessed last week at the team’s Media Day there was one moment he particularly liked to watch over and over.
“One of my favorite things to do as a coach on the field is to watch those guys celebrate.