Surging Gamecocks welcome Brown
By David Roberts | March 6, 2014Starting your season on the road against a team that has already played 12 games immediately puts you at a disadvantage.
Starting your season on the road against a team that has already played 12 games immediately puts you at a disadvantage.
The South Carolina baseball team held on to its undefeated record Tuesday afternoon, as they dominated Stetson, winning 7-1.
Coming into the SEC Tournament on Friday, the No. 5 South Carolina women’s basketball team will have to do something it isn’t used to: rebounding after a loss.
The South Carolina women’s tennis team’s 5-2 loss at the hands of No. 9 Texas A&M Sunday captured what has plagued the Gamecocks all season: an inability to finish. Even with a decisive 6-1 victory over Missouri on Friday, it is Sunday’s match that appears to define the weekend.
When you beat the 17th-best team in the country on your home floor, a measure of celebration is warranted.
With Saturday’s 12-7 senior day win over No. 2 Auburn, the top-ranked South Carolina equestrian team earned the No. 1 seed in the upcoming SEC tournament.
Kyle Martin trotted home in the bottom of the eighth after another wild pitch found its way to the backstop. The chants started growing in volume, undeniable to anyone in Carolina Stadium.
Although the No. 4 South Carolina women’s basketball team locked up the regular-season SEC title Thursday night, the Gamecocks still had one game on their schedule before the conference tournament.
If the students were reminded once, they were reminded a thousand times not to storm the court. But there was no keeping them in their seats Saturday night as they poured onto the floor to celebrate South Carolina’s 72-67 upset victory over No. 17 Kentucky.
It wasn’t the way the No. 3 Gamecocks have grown accustomed to winning this season, but ultimately South Carolina worked out the hiccups in their starting pitching to pull away from No. 11 Clemson, 9-6.
The end of Thursday night’s 67-56 win over Georgia was unlike any the South Carolina women’s basketball team has ever experienced.
The second of two free throws dropped, and the scoreboard illuminated a 68-62 Gamecock advantage over No. 1 Kentucky. The remaining 1.9 seconds expired, and students rushed the court of Colonial Life Arena, relishing in the Gamecocks’ upset of the Wildcats.
No matter what sport the two schools are playing, South Carolina and Clemson continue to prove that garnet and orange don’t mix. And when they renew their series on the baseball diamond this weekend, the stakes will be higher than ever, with both the Gamecocks and the Tigers in the top-15.
In the 2013-14 season, the Gamecocks shattered a number of their previous records on their way to a 21-9-2 mark, the most wins in school history. In the process, South Carolina scored more goals than ever before (154) and Patterson set the individual program record for goals scored in a year (22).
The South Carolina softball team hits the road this weekend to escape Columbia’s gloomy forecast in favor of somewhere sunny and 75 down in the badlands of Tempe, Ariz., for the Arizona State Louisville Slugger Invitational.
Eight top-25 teams stand between the South Carolina track and field team and an SEC championship.
Unless the South Carolina men’s basketball team can magically catch fire in the SEC tournament, an NCAA tournament appearance this season is unlikely.