Clemson baseball is off to a 10-1 start, including a weekend sweep of South Carolina. The first three games of the season set the tone.

There's a lot of confidence surrounding this Clemson Tigers baseball team. Since Erik Bakich left Michigan to take the head coaching job with Clemson ahead of the 2023 season, they have taken major steps forward as a program,

Paul Mainieri and Erik Bakich’s viewpoints on the South Carolina-Clemson rivalry couldn’t be more different. Mainieri, who will coach in the series for the first time on Friday, gets the sense that people care more about beating Clemson than how South Carolina does the rest of the season.

Clemson's three-game sweep of rival South Carolina moved the Tigers into Baseball America's top five teams on Monday.

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.

The South Carolina Gamecocks are in Clemson, South Carolina for a third and final baseball game on Sunday evening. Here's how to watch as the Gamecocks attempt

Clemson finished up a three-game baseball sweep of South Carolina with an 8-2 win Sunday night in Columbia.

Ethan Darden steps up in the biggest rivalry of them all, delivering a career-defining performance that could change Clemson’s season.

Clemson head coach Erik Bakich didn’t hesitate when asked about the upcoming rivalry series against South Carolina.“It’s the best rivalry in college baseball, bar-none,” Bakich said Tuesday after the Tigers’ win over Winthrop.

South Carolina’s first-year head coach Paul Mainieri ... They’re embracing it.” Clemson head coach Erik Bakich, now in his second season, was asked if he has a relationship with Mainieri.

The Tigers built a quick 4-0 lead Friday and held on for the win. The series shifts to Fluor Field in Greenville on Saturday.

The Clemson Tigers defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks, 5-3, in the first game of their annual three-game Palmetto Series on Friday night.