South Carolina baseball head coach Paul Mainieri speaks on what his team needs to get better at ahead of the SEC schedule.

Following an 8-2 loss to No. 13 Clemson on Sunday, South Carolina head coach Paul Mainieri met with the media. Here’s everything he had to say after the Gamecocks were swept by the Tigers this weekend.

Paul Mainieri stood on the grass of Fluor Field in Greenville Saturday — having already lost his first Palmetto State series before every even facing Clemson at home — and sounded like a man who lost his wallet and was prepared to trek through a sewer if that’s what was needed.

The idea that tensions would rise to that extreme between himself and current Clemson coach Erik Bakich seems impossible to Mainieri. Though the first-year USC coach admitted he didn’t know Bakich much, they have a great mutual friend in East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin, who has always said great things about Bakich, his former college teammate.

I’ve never seen anything like it. ... I’m starting to think fans care more about how we do against Clemson than how we do in the SEC.”

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South Carolina and Clemson reengage in their annual rivalry baseball series beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday. Three games in three days in three ballparks.

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South Carolina's new head baseball coach Paul Mainieri had a chance to speak with the media today ahead of the upcoming series against No. 13 Clemson. He discus

The South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team was swept by the No. 13 Clemson Tigers over the weekend in the Palmetto Series. It ends a previously undefeated season for Paul Mainieri's Gamecocks.