Gaines embracing defense throughout senior year
By brennan doherty | March 21, 2015Perhaps no player better represents the absurd amount of depth the third-ranked South Carolina women’s basketball team possesses than senior guard Olivia Gaines.
Perhaps no player better represents the absurd amount of depth the third-ranked South Carolina women’s basketball team possesses than senior guard Olivia Gaines.
One year following a loss in the Sweet 16 despite its one-seed, South Carolina once again enters this season’s NCAA tournament as one of the nation’s top seeds and the Gamecocks are trying to get over the hump, so to speak.
The sport of sand volleyball has seen its popularity in America spike within the past few years and South Carolina joined the outbreak when making it its 21st varsity sports back in 2013.
For the South Carolina women’s tennis team, SEC play is flying by, but the Gamecocks feel that they have much more to prove. Head coach Kevin Epley’s team is determined to close out the regular-season on a positive note and that starts with having strong performances at home this weekend against Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
Hopefully you’ve filled out your brackets, because March Madness is finally here. The NCAA men’s tournament began Tuesday night with two of the First Four games, but the real action begins on Thursday and Friday. The women’s tournament starts up on Friday as well.
Today is March 18, which means we are one month away from the beginning of the NBA playoffs. The grueling regular season is dwindling down, award season is within arms reach and most importantly teams are frantically fighting for playoff seeding.
Coming off an SEC tournament championship, the South Carolina women’s basketball team (30-2) gathered Monday night at Colonial Life Arena to watch the NCAA tournament selection show along with some of its most dedicated fans.
South Carolina’s defense was dismal in 2014, ranking in the bottom half of the league in just about every defensive category.
South Carolina led for most of the afternoon, but a two-run ninth inning put Kentucky ahead 4-3 heading to the bottom of the inning.
Starting the first conference weekend this season South Carolina (15-3) swung past Kentucky (13-4) for the 10-1 win.
Final score: South Carolina 63 Missouri 54 What does it mean? It’s survive and advance time for South Carolina and the Gamecocks lived to see another day by defeating Missouri 63-54 in the first round of the SEC tournament Wednesday night.
Here’s everything you need to know about South Carolina’s first round opponent in the 2015 SEC tournament.
South Carolina outpaced its opponents in series play against Miami (Ohio) finishing the second game of the weekend 7-0.
In a game that had many ups and downs, South Carolina looked like it would get run out of the gym early in the first half and yet led by as many as 11 points in the second half before ultimately losing to No. 18 Arkansas 78-74 in heartbreaking fashion on senior night.
Playing in its third game in as many days, the No. 5 South Carolina baseball team (9-3) enjoyed one of its best offensive performances of the season during Wednesday’s 11-3 victory against High Point (2-8).
Following a tough weekend of matchups, the South Carolina men’s and women’s tennis teams are both slated to face off against LSU and Texas A&M this weekend.
No. 1 South Carolina women’s golf team will look to continue its good play when heading to Hilton Head Island this weekend for the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.
