Greenville to host NCAA tournament games
The first two rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament will now be played in Greenville’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena, the NCAA announced today.
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The first two rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament will now be played in Greenville’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena, the NCAA announced today.
In the months leading up to the men’s basketball season, much will be made of South Carolina’s strong non-conference schedule against many of the perennial powerhouses of college basketball.
When Frank Martin took the head coach position at South Carolina in March 2012, he left a strong Kansas State team that had made the NCAA Tournament in four of five seasons to take over a Gamecock squad fresh off a 10-21 season. By his fourth season in Columbia, Martin led South Carolina to a school-record 25 wins, while he had already brought in four top-100 recruits during his tenure.
Mali native Ibrahim Doumbia announced his commitment to the Gamecocks on Thursday. After an impressive junior season where he averaged 19 points and 13.5 rebounds, he added offers from Florida, Baylor, Tennessee, UTEP, UCF and South Carolina.
Just in case South Carolina's two newest women's basketball commits didn't get fans excited enough for the program, the 2016-17 regular season schedule was released Tuesday, featuring 19 games on national television.
The South Carolina women's basketball team won't see game action for more than another month, but that isn't stopping head coach Dawn Staley from building momentum.
Frank Martin received some good news Monday when 2017 center Jason Cudd committed to the Gamecocks.
The SEC released its conference schedule for men's basketball for 2016-17, unveiling each team's 18-game slate.
For Frank Martin, last year’s men's basketball team was one of the most successful in Gamecock history. They were able to finish in a tie for third in the SEC and tying the school record with 25 wins on the season, as well as win big games over teams like Vanderbilt and Texas A&M, both of which made the NCAA tournament. Yet all the success they achieved was overshadowed by the questions that emerged at the end of the season, questions that raised much confusion as to the future of the program and have just recently been answered.
Last year’s men’s basketball season ended in disappointment. After missing out on the NCAA tournament through some controversy, head coach Frank Martin’s team lost in the second round of the NIT to Georgia Tech.
In the wake of Draymond Green’s suspension from Game 5, and Stephen Curry’s ejection from Game 6, a lot has been made of the NBA’s punishment of its players for acts committed on the court. Big name reporters, all the way down to my coworkers, weighed in on the issue. Some argued that the NBA was too harsh with its punishments, some critiqued the NBA for not being harsh enough and some even went as far as to say the NBA was rigged.
When rising sophomore forward Raymond Doby joined Eric Cobb and Jamall Gregory as Gamecocks to receive criminal charges for marijuana possession, it seemed inevitable that Doby would be joining the pair on another list: Players to be dismissed from the South Carolina men's basketball team. Doby's time in Columbia came to an unceremonious end Wednesday, as coach Frank Martin announced the 6-foot-6 forward is no longer a part of the team's future.
Hassan Whiteside, center for the Miami Heat, is already big in several ways. He stands at 7 feet tall and weighs over 260 pounds. He is also featured in many of DJ Khaled's Snapchat videos, so he is already a big man and a big celebrity. Lately, Whiteside has shown his potential to become even bigger, this time on the hardwood.
Last week, former South Carolina guard Tiffany Mitchell achieved her WNBA dreams, being drafted by the Indiana Fever with the ninth overall pick.
The 2016 NBA postseason has gotten off to a pretty boring start as just two of the eight series-opening games were decided by fewer than 10 points. The Western Conference games were particularly noncompetitive as the conference's top seeds won by an average of 29 points, with the closest game being the fourth-seeded Clippers 115-95 domination of the fifth-seeded Trail Blazers.
Because of the great number of fans of major American professional sports, commissioners of the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL have a massive opportunity to influence the country's culture. In March, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was presented with a career-defining opportunity when the governor of North Carolina passed House Bill 2, a response to a bill passed in Charlotte that allowed transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they identify with. House Bill 2 nullifies that law, forcing all individuals to use the bathroom corresponding with the biological sex listed on their birth certificates, not their gender identities. This bill is incredibly controversial and has created quite the uprising, including from Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, who said "this legislation is literally the most anti-LGBT legislation in the country."
Basketball fans have been put in a tough predicament Wednesday night, as the Warriors' pursuit of 73 wins tips off at the same time as Kobe's swan song in the Staples Center. Kobe Bryant was the star of the NBA for years, and for many people our age, the Black Mamba was the face of the league when they began watching the sport. However, Michael Jordan, the association's hero of yesteryear, could see one of his most impressive records broken Wednesday night, as the Golden State Warriors take on the Memphis Grizzlies at home to attempt to be the first team in league history to win 73 games in a season.
Just like every season must end, so too must every career. This past year the South Carolina men’s basketball team was lucky enough to have three phenomenal seniors who have been integral in the development of this program. The day that these three stepped onto campus together freshman year, they saw a program in shambles, coming off a disaster of a season with only two wins in conference play. But along with coach Frank Martin, who too began his tenure here in 2012, these seniors have transformed a program that before was all but laughed at in the world of college basketball.
Gregg Popovich has enjoyed incredible success at the helm of the San Antonio Spurs organization, claiming five NBA titles, receiving three NBA Coach of the Year awards and winning at least 50 games each year since his first season in 1996-97, with the exception of the shortened 1998-99 season, where the regular season was only 50 games long. In that short season, the Spurs went 37-13 and went on to win the NBA Finals, so that season was fairly impressive as well. This season, however, Popovich has accomplished something he had yet to do in his illustrious career: Win at least 65 games.
Despite Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich respectively leading the Warriors and Spurs to unprecedented regular season heights, it is apparent that the Celtics’ Brad Stevens has most adeptly demonstrated his influence on winning games.