The South Carolina Gamecocks Baseball season gets underway Friday afternoon at home. Here's everything you need to know about the matchup between the Gamecocks vs Sacred Heart.

Opening Day is always the start of something new. A new season. New players. New hope. But as the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team begins its 2025 season at 4 p.m. Friday against Sacred Heart, the newness will feel magnified. Here are five things to know as Carolina baseball begins its quest for Omaha.

A new era of South Carolina baseball is beginning in Columbia with the debut of first-year head coach Paul Mainieri to the program. The Gamecocks look to improve off of its 2024 campaign where South Carolina finished with a 37-25 record and was knocked out in the NCAA Regionals by James Madison University.