It’s time again for the most terrifying part of any South Carolina baseball fan’s year: SEC Tournament week. It’s a fantastic week as a college baseball fan in general and as an SEC baseball fan in particular, but it’s often miserable for South Carolina. The Gamecocks have, somewhat inexplicably, been so bad in Hoover that it’s almost funny (or, if it’s not actually funny, at least laughing about it helps). The struggles could be chalked up to general bad luck and bad breaks or possibly to an actual curse of some sort.
More likely, what began as some bad luck in Hoover snowballed into something that’s gotten in the heads of the coaches and players in recent seasons.