It appears that Ray Tanner’s search for a new head baseball coach has ended. Earlier today, a Board of Trustees meeting was planned for Friday morning, hinting that Tanner had made a decision. First reported by Dan Lucas of WFLA News in Tampa Florida, Mark Kingston will take the head coaching job at South Carolina. Kingston was part of two College World Series teams as an assistant at Miami and Tulane. As a head coach, Kingston has coached his teams to the NCAA Tournament three times; once at Illinois State and twice at South Florida.

USF baseball coach Mark Kingston is going to take the job at South Carolina.

— Dan Lucas (@WFLADan) June 29, 2017

Tanner’s initial list was bold, consisting of Florida’s Kevin O’Sullivan, Wake Forest’s Tom Walter, and more. South Florida finished the season with a 42-19 record before falling to Bethune Cookman in the Florida regional. In Game 2 of that regional, the Bulls fell to Florida 2-1 in 12 innings.

Kingston will take over for a South Carolina program that finished 35-25 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. Kingston will inherit a team returning one of the best young talents in the country in Carlos Cortes, who has impressed scouts in the Cape Cod League so far this summer.

At two schools, Kingston’s head coaching record is 235-180-1. In 2014, Kingston signed a contract for six years and $140,000 per year. In the last year of his contract, Chad Holbrook made $400,000 indicating Kingston will see a pretty significant pay raise.