For a South Carolina volleyball team that is reeling after dropping its last five SEC matches and losing several key players to injury, a weekend visit from No. 6 Missouri and Alabama must seem like scheduling overkill.
What the heck has happened to Florida? One year after earning an 11-2 record and an appearance in the Sugar Bowl, the Gators are sloshing through a 4-5 season and are in danger of missing out on a bowl game for the first time since the first Gulf War.
With the regular season in the books, the South Carolina men’s soccer team is entering the Conference-USA Tournament as the No. 4 seed.
Former Gamecocks running back Kenny Miles shot himself in the forearm in an Irmo office park last week, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. Miles will be charged with filing a false police report and could face jail time or a large fine.
South Carolina fell at No. 20 Kentucky and at Georgia this weekend, and did so without its team leader in kills.
The first 12 minutes of Friday’s SEC Tournament semifinal couldn’t have gone much worse for the South Carolina women’s soccer team. With Texas A&M staked to a two goal advantage, it would have been very easy for the Gamecocks to begin mentally packing their bags for the trip home.
Going into Saturday’s meet at Auburn, coach Boo Major and her team were hoping to put together a complete performance. After losses against Georgia and at Texas A&M exposed consistency issues, the Gamecocks needed a win against the Tigers to avoid falling to 0-3 in the SEC.
The No. 22 South Carolina women’s basketball team opened its season with a pair of emphatic victories in its first two games, beating Louisiana Tech 68-45 Sunday to cap off a dominant opening weekend of play.
In their final tune-up game before the Conference USA tournament begins, the Gamecocks fell short to Old Dominion by a score of 2-1.
Coming into the season, Tyrone Johnson was not supposed to be able to play until next semester. But on Friday, he received an unexpected phone call from coach Frank Martin, who sneakily revealed the news to the junior.
Gamecocks open season with convincing win
After a bounce back win against East Carolina last week following a disappointing loss to Tennessee two weeks ago, the South Carolina men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will prepare to face off against the LSU Tigers on Saturday at the Carolina Natatorium within Blatt P.E. Center in Columbia.
After the narrow 10-9 loss at Texas A&M two weeks ago, South Carolina coach Boo Major said the team gathered together when they arrived back in Columbia to “hash it out” before everyone went home.
Coach Dawn Staley hopes to set the tone for the season with a slight departure from last year’s philosophy when the women’s basketball team gets its 2013 campaign underway today against Charleston Southern.
In coach Frank Martin’s final press conference before South Carolina men’s basketball gets its season underway Saturday, he said that his young team has come a long way in the preseason.
Third-seeded South Carolina earned a measure of revenge yesterday by blowing out sixth-seeded Georgia 4-0 to advance to the semifinals of the SEC tournament.
Junior defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles had decided to forgo his senior season at South Carolina, and will enter the NFL Draft after this season, The State reported Wednesday.