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In years past, South Carolina didn't have to deal with the possible perils of losing in Hoover. When the Gamecocks won the national championship in 2010, they quickly exited Hoover Metropolitan Stadium after two losses in which they score one run in 21 innings.

The following year, USC beat Auburn in its tournament opener before falling to Vanderbilt and Georgia. A month later, the Gamecocks were celebrating their second consecutive national championship.

Two years ago, USC sandwiched a win over Auburn between losses to Vanderbilt and Florida, then advanced all the way to the national championship series against Arizona.

Last year, they went two-and-out in Hoover again, but reached the Super Regionals and fell one run short at North Carolina in the quest to reach Omaha for the fourth straight year.

Thus, recent history teaches us that how USC fares in the SEC Tournament typically has little correlation to how the Gamecocks perform in the NCAA Tournament because USC usually has a good feel on where it fits into the national picture.

This year, though, the circumstances are different. USC is No. 8 in the official NCAA Baseball RPI, putting it on the cusp of earning a coveted national seed, a distinction that would assure the Gamecocks of staying home at Carolina Stadium for the NCAA Regional and, should they advance, the Super Regionals.
"Hopefully, we can stay more than two days," USC coach Chad Holbrook said Monday before the team's departure for Hoover. "We haven't historically played our best baseball down at Hoover. We're going to try our best this week to change that. It will be a tall order with who we have to play. But we're excited about going down there and playing."

Considering USC has never won a Super Regional outside the Palmetto State, playing the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament in Columbia could make or break its hopes of getting to Omaha.

The outcome of tonight's matchup against Mississippi State could have an integral role in determining if the Gamecocks secure a national seed. The Bulldogs, which lost out on a top four seed in the SEC Tournament on the final day of the regular season, began the week at No. 30 in the RPI and are battling many other schools for the right to host an NCAA Regional.

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