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(11/06/16 10:45pm)
The South Carolina women's basketball team unveiled its new look Sunday in an exhibition against Benedict College, and the Gamecocks trounced the visiting Lady Tigers, coming away with a 120-49 win.
(11/03/16 5:19am)
In 2008, Dawn Staley inherited a South Carolina women's basketball team that hadn't made the NCAA Tournament in five years and had only placed in the SEC's top four teams once in program history. Not only that, but Staley had a roster of players who weren't focused on playing professional basketball, which hindered the team.
(11/03/16 5:22am)
Four years ago, the South Carolina men's basketball program looked dead. After a 10-21 season, the Gamecocks found the spark they needed: a successful coach with postseason experience and a personality to draw in fans.
(11/03/16 5:25am)
To say that A'ja Wilson accomplished a lot during her sophomore season could be an understatement. The 6-foot-5 forward was named a first team All-American, SEC Player of the Year and SEC Defensive Player of the Year while setting a school record for blocks and leading the team in scoring.
(11/03/16 5:28am)
By her own admission, Dawn Staley is somewhat uncomfortable with the sheer magnitude of her own legacy, at least publicly.
(11/03/16 6:32am)
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(11/03/16 6:42am)
Senior leadership in the frontcourt led South Carolina men’s basketball to its most successful season in program history last year. Yet this season, the experience of last year is being replaced with youth for Frank Martin’s Gamecocks. Guards Sindarius Thornwell and Duane Notice will lead a young team that will likely feature several first-time starters in the front court.
(11/03/16 6:46am)
Coming off the winningest season in program history, the South Carolina men’s basketball team enters the 2016-17 season with high expectations, yet a tougher field of competition on their schedule.
(11/03/16 6:48am)
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(11/03/16 6:51am)
Senior Alaina Coates comes into the 2016-2017 season as an All-American, a member of the preseason All-SEC team and one of two seniors on a team expected to win the SEC Tournament.
(11/01/16 9:54pm)
There are two key qualities needed in today’s college basketball in order to be a success: Wrap up the top recruits in the nation, and have upperclass leadership that actually contributes to games.
(11/03/16 6:52am)
Last season, senior guard Duane Notice saw his role change dramatically. Although he started the majority of the games his first two seasons at South Carolina, he played primarily off the bench this past year.
(11/03/16 6:40am)
In the midst of obscurity on every team sits the walk-ons. These players rarely enter the game, and if they do, it’s once half the fans have left, the media stories have been written and the game is all but over. Yet these players, though unknown to most and lacking the on-court production that we have come to define athletes and teams by, are as integral members as any to this South Carolina men’s basketball team.
(11/03/16 6:39am)
After a year where expectations were high and his struggles to meet them were evident, sophomore guard PJ Dozier hopes to turn the page on last season and be the player that everyone expected him to be as a five-star recruit out of high school.
(11/03/16 6:35am)
Adjustment is nothing new in Chris Silva’s life.
(11/03/16 6:27am)
The offseason saw a mass exodus in production for the Gamecocks’ frontcourt with Laimonas Chatkevicius, Mindauguas Kacinas and Michael Carrera graduating. The trio anchored South Carolina in leadership, emotion and consistent production — all of them averaged double-digits in points. With their departures, coach Frank Martin needs to find immediate impact on his team or the Gamecocks’ potential to compete in the SEC, much less reach the Big Dance, will be slim.
(10/27/16 3:59am)
After getting only three teams in the NCAA tournament last season, the SEC was once again the lowest-rated Power 5 conference in college basketball. Even with this lack of postseason success for the most part last season, schools in the conference are taking the necessary steps to build up the league and shed the name tag of Kentucky and everyone else.
(10/24/16 12:00am)
A South Carolina men's basketball player has been detained at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on multiple charges.
(10/21/16 12:38am)
South Carolina women's basketball has gone a combined 45-3 in SEC play over the past three seasons. So at first glance, it seemed odd that head coach Dawn Staley embraced the opportunity for change at SEC Media Day.
(10/20/16 3:22am)
In 2008, Dawn Staley took over a South Carolina women's basketball program that was essentially dead, having failed to put together a winning conference record or reach the NCAA Tournament in its last five seasons under Susan Walvius. By last season, Staley had made the Gamecocks into a powerhouse, having reached the program's first ever Final Four in 2014-15 before posting a 33-2 record last year.