ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Gamecocks clinch regular season championship on senior night
If there was a chance that South Carolina would overlook its next opponent after a big and dramatic win over No. 6 Tennessee, it went away quickly.
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If there was a chance that South Carolina would overlook its next opponent after a big and dramatic win over No. 6 Tennessee, it went away quickly.
We live in a football-crazed nation. There’s no denying it.
When the final buzzer sounded and No. 2 South Carolina defeated No. 6 Tennessee, the magnitude and importance of the win for the Gamecocks was clearly evident by the way teammates embraced and congratulated each other on the court.
You wouldn't know it by the cold and precipitation-filled weather most of the country is still experiencing, but college baseball season is now in full swing. With Vanderbilt winning the College World Series last June, an SEC team has been crowned the sport’s best in four out of the last six seasons and the conference once again appears to be loaded in 2015.
Doris Burke, a basketball analyst and reporter for ESPN and a former college basketball player at Providence College, has covered the NBA, NCAA women’s basketball and NCAA men’s basketball over the course of her television career. Burke offered commentary on the game between No. 2 South Carolina and No. 6 Tennessee, which the Gamecocks won 71-66. Before the game, The Daily Gamecock caught up with Burke and got her thoughts on South Carolina, Dawn Staley and the rest of women’s basketball.
Colonial Life Arena hosted South Carolina and Tennessee as two Top-10 teams competed for a conference win.
After taking all three games in its series against Northeastern this past weekend, the No. 5 South Carolina baseball team will continue its early season non-conference slate as it hosts Davidson at Carolina Stadium on Tuesday at 4 p.m. The Gamecocks (6-1) are currently riding a six-game winning streak thanks to their combination of good pitching and solid hitting.
With first place in the SEC on the line, Monday night’s game between No. 6 Tennessee (23-3, 13-0 SEC) and No. 2 South Carolina (25-1, 13-0 SEC) will feature a battle between the old guard and the new guard of one of the nation’s top women’s basketball conferences.
Looking to build upon an impressive road win against Georgia, the South Carolina men’s basketball team hosted Texas A&M, another NCAA tournament bubble team.
With next week’s matchup against No. 6 Tennessee, the only other SEC team undefeated in conference play, looming, No. 2 South Carolina (25-1, 13-0 SEC) remained focused on the task at hand and won on the road against a pesky Arkansas team.
Four straight bowl wins, a 4-1 mark in its last five games against Clemson and a humongous home stadium in Williams-Brice Stadium.
Two Wednesdays ago, four-star defensive end Shameik Blackshear was the first South Carolina recruit to officially sign with the Gamecocks. Flash forward two weeks and Blackshear's career in Columbia may be over before even playing a down in Williams-Brice Stadium.
After winning two out of three games in its season-opening series against No. 25 College of Charleston, No. 5 South Carolina now turns its attention to another in-state opponent: Furman.
When playing No. 1 South Carolina, the last thing a team wants to do is to allow junior Gamecock shooting guard Tiffany Mitchell to get into her zone early, offensively or defensively for that matter.
Just one game into the 2015 college baseball season, No. 5 South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook was already frustrated. For whatever reason, his team lacked the fight and intensity he expected on opening day with the Gamecocks losing 6-3 on Friday to No. 25 College of Charleston.
A solid outing by sophomore pitcher Josh Reagan and a go-ahead two-run home run by freshman designated hitter Alex Destino helped No. 5 South Carolina (2-1) defeat No. 25 College of Charleston (1-2) 8-3 in Saturday evening’s rubber match between the two teams.
Sophomore pitcher Wil Crowe gave up only one run in six 1/3 innings of work while striking out a career-high 10 batters and No. 5 South Carolina’s offense came alive as the Gamecocks (1-1) defeated No. 25 College of Charleston (1-1) 6-1 in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader for their first win of the year.
For the South Carolina women’s basketball team, the craziness and intense national attention that surrounded its game against No. 2 Connecticut is in the rearview mirror. The Gamecocks proved that much when defeating LSU Thursday 86-62 Thursday night in their first game at Colonial Life Arena in over two weeks.
Late Monday night after feeling the pain that comes with losing for the first time all season, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley promised that South Carolina would have to move on and not dwell on its 25-point loss to No. 2 Connecticut. She wasn’t lying, and neither was the scoreboard at Colonial Life Arena Thursday night.
A catcher that can excel defensively is an asset, but a catcher that can do that and produce at the plate is a luxury.