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What's at stake for South Carolina in the SEC baseball tournament | The State

South Carolina baseball coach Mark Kingston seemed to sum up what’s most important for as his team heads into the SEC tournament.

The baseball conference tournament grind will always be a tricky balance. Everyone wants to win, but playing nearly every day for six days can tax a pitching staff looking forward to the NCAA Tournament the next weekend.

USC will be walking that line when it starts things up in Hoover, Ala., at 9 p.m. on Tuesday against Missouri. But Monday morning, Kingston put things in perspective.

“At the end of the day, this program is about playing really well in the NCAA Tournament,” Kingston said.