Hooray baseball!

Melancholy Matt Barnes and the Huskies take on South Carolina in Game 1 of their best-of-three Super Regional in the Dirty South. The perpetually sad Barnes (11-4, 1.62 ERA), the recent first-round pick of your Boston Red Sox, will take the mound for Mighty UConn, while Michael Roth (12-3, 1.10) is a go for the Cocks.

Considering Randy Edsall was able to beat (the other) USC, I'm assuming this should be a breeze.

(Actual pre-game info can be found both here, here, and likely here, if you're into that sort of thing.)

First pitch is scheduled for around 6 p.m.-ish ET. Leave your pre-, in- and post-game thoughts here, and perhaps someone will respond.

Go Huskies!