South Carolina beats Vermont behind career night for Dozier
Behind a career night from PJ Dozier and the support of his young big men Chris Silva and Maik Kotsar, South Carolina beat the Vermont Catamounts 68-50 Thursday night.
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Behind a career night from PJ Dozier and the support of his young big men Chris Silva and Maik Kotsar, South Carolina beat the Vermont Catamounts 68-50 Thursday night.
In its second matchup versus a top 25 opponent this week, South Carolina was able to beat the No. 18 Syracuse Orange 64-50 due in large part to its suffocating man-to-man defense.
After a tumultuous offseason that saw him arrested on six charges, Rakym Felder is playing his way to court time and thrusting himself into the conversation for backup point guard this season.
South Carolina basketball got another win against Monmouth to start its season 3-0. But just as every game has ended with a victory for Frank Martin and his team, it has also started the same way, too, as once again Chris Silva and Maik Kotsar got themselves into foul trouble early in the game.
Driving layup, commanding defensive rebound, steal and assist. That was how the second half started for PJ Dozier and the South Carolina Gamecocks. It was just three minutes in the first game of the season, but already PJ Dozier looks like a new player on the basketball floor.
Behind the lead of its backcourt, South Carolina was able to beat Louisiana Tech 85-76 in its season opener.
It is over. I repeat, the Heisman race is over.
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.
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.
As soon as the ball left his hands, time seemed to slow down. Williams-Brice seemed to grow silent. The ball floated, yes floated, towards the right corner of the end zone. Jake Bentley watched, Will Muschamp watched, Gamecock Nation as a whole watched. And then the ball fell perfectly into the outstretched arms of a diving KC Crosby.
The South Carolina backfield appears to be getting more complex and dynamic as Coach Will Muschamp has added true freshman, Rico Dowdle, into the mix.
There is currently no change to South Carolina’s football game versus Georgia, which is scheduled to take place Saturday at 7:30 pm at Williams-Brice Stadium. An announcement from the university is expected Thursday morning regarding the time and date of the football game, though the location of the game is not in question.
With the South Carolina football team sitting at 2-3 and losing two of those games in a row, something needs to change. And for coach Will Muschamp and this Gamecock team, that something is the true freshman quarterback that continues to start despite continued lackluster performance.
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.
The quarterback controversy for South Carolina still is not quelled and the special team’s issues remain unresolved, but with the many questions that continue to persist surrounding the play of Coach Will Muschamp’s team, the versatility and importance of sophomore tight end Hayden Hurst only continue to become clearer and more apparent with each game.
South Carolina starting quarterback Brandon McIlwain completed just 34 yards against one of the most well-rounded teams in the country in No. 9 Texas A&M. Normally that would be a recipe for disaster, but South Carolina overcame limitations in their passing game in a respectable 24-13 loss to the Aggies.
South Carolina men’s soccer was able to come up with a big 3-0 win over the 18th-seeded Furman Paladins Tuesday night, continuing their hot streak and pushing their win streak up to four games.
The student section here at South Carolina is nothing to be proud of.
The South Carolina women’s soccer team closed out non-conference play Thursday night with a dominant 3-0 win over the UNCG Spartans. Chelsea Drennan led the Gamecocks with two goals on the night.
Coming out of South Carolina’s abysmal performance against Mississippi State Saturday night, one thing is apparent: Brandon McIlwain should be the starting quarterback and only quarterback played by head coach Will Muschamp next game.