In its final practice before the NCAA tournament on Thursday, South Carolina baseball kept things simple.
At East Carolina's Clark-LeClair Stadium, the Gamecocks took a break from their usual regimen of hitting off 92-mile per hour hitting machines, using pitching coach Skylar Meade to simulate the left-hander USC will face Friday against Ohio State.
Velocity wasn't the only thing missing. Despite, or perhaps because of, the team's late-season surge into the postseason, Carolina coaches and players also said they felt no pressure as they prep for their regional.
"At this point, if you start to get tight or start to try to do too much, that's when you start to feel the pressure, and when you feel pressure, you don't apply pressure," coach Mark Kingston said.