After earning the final spot in the Southeastern Conference tournament, the Missouri baseball team can use this week in Hoover, Ala., to shore up its résumé for an NCAA regional.
“Our thought is we want to win this thing, not just go in and win one or two games,” he said in a phone interview Monday from Hoover, where the Tigers are the No. 12 seed in the 12-team field. “We’re looking to go win a conference tournament.”
But first things first, and that’s South Carolina. Mizzou (34-21) and the fifth-seeded Gamecocks (32-22) meet in Tuesday’s late game at Hoover Met Stadium, a rematch of a three-game series South Carolina clinched nine days ago with a ninth-inning walk-off home run.