WATCH: Why Nick Mingione is Losing Sleep Ahead of the 2025 Kentucky Baseball Season

The Kentucky baseball team made history in 2024. For the first time in program history, the Wildcats won a Super Regional and advanced to Omaha for the College World Series. Once they got there, they made a little magic with a walk-off win in extra innings.

“What a season last year was, right? We gotta do it again. That’s the question you’re going to ask me,” Nick Mingione chided during Tuesday’s Kentucky baseball media day.

“That was fun. I want to go to Omaha again. I want to take my family there. I can tell you that it would not have happened without a lot of hard work from a lot of people. I want to thank Big Blue Nation.”

While many folks around Big Blue Nation may still look fondly back on last season, Mingione is looking ahead. The Bat Cats open the season next week in Nashville against Lipscomb. Ranked No. 20 to start the season, Mingione knows he has his work cut out for him to get this Kentucky baseball team in shape for another memorable campaign.

“We have 44 guys on our team. We have 29 first-year players. What does that mean? That means I got more gray hair this fall, I got less sleep than I’ve ever gotten, but I feel really good about the strides we’ve made so far,” he said.

Hear the Kentucky baseball coach dive deep into what his newcomers are bringing to Lexington and much more during his media day press conference.

Mingione wasn’t the only one who got a turn at the microphone. James McCoy and a pair of pitchers, Jackson Nove and Nic McCay, spent time chatting with Daniel Hager about the upcoming 2025 Kentucky baseball season. If you wanna catch the Bat Cats in action this spring, season tickets are still on sale. Single-game tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 am. Plan accordingly.

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