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T&L Extra: Coach Brian O'Connor Joins SportsTalk Mississippi From the SEC Tournament

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SuperTalk Mississippi Media

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State's postseason begins Wednesday morning as the Bulldogs take on Missouri in the second round of the SEC Tournament. Brian Hadad catches up with Coach Brian O'Connor to discuss his team's path to Omaha and what the Diamond Dawgs must do to have the postseason they want. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Carlo Barone, along with legendary Diamond Dawg Brooks Bryan, give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. Covering the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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Discover more at allora modern wellness.com. We're back on the Farm Bureau guest line. Check out Favorites.com and go with the home team. We're in Hoover, Alabama, or at least my guest is, Coach Brian O'Connor, Mississippi State Baseball, getting ready for his first SEC tournament as the head coach and the skipper of the Diamond Dogs. And coach, it is now the postseason.

0:54.4

Does anything change for you as far as preparation or messaging once you enter this time of year?

1:00.1

Oh, for sure.

1:01.2

This is the, for the players and the staff, this is the most exciting time of the year.

1:05.9

You know, for the players, their academic work is completed.

1:10.6

It's all baseball and uh you know

1:13.4

you're you're playing for everything and you know this is an opportunity to compete for an

1:17.9

c c championship and you got to take them one at a time just like you do in an NCAA tournament

1:23.4

but uh you know the regular season's over and you move on. And, you know, this is the

1:31.8

exciting time of the year where you just pour everything into every game. And if you don't,

1:37.7

in the SEC tournament, if you don't win, you go home. So I know our guys are excited and looking

1:43.3

forward to the opportunity. So you look at the

1:45.5

last two weekends for your team. They've kind of had a postseason feel to them with the stakes that

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