Gamecocks travel to play Tigers in Auburn
By David Roberts | Jan. 15, 2015Basketball is a game of runs. It’s no secret.
Basketball is a game of runs. It’s no secret.
Well, the team that wasn’t supposed to get in won the whole thing.
Just one week ago, the South Carolina men’s basketball team was playing some of its best basketball in recent memory. The Gamecocks were riding high, having won seven consecutive games, including a marquee win over then No.
The men and women’s swimming and diving team traveled to Durham, North Carolina for a double duel meet with Duke University and Harvard University.
The South Carolina Track & Field team kicked off their 2015 campaign in dominating fashion. Taking 11 events on at the Orange and Purple Classic, which was held at Clemson University.
When wide receiver Shaq Roland arrived on campus in 2012, the expectations were clear: maintain the standard of winning set by players who’ve come before.
South Carolina’s recruiting class is bleeding. A 7-6 season had recruits worried, but a comment by head coach Steve Spurrier saying that he planned to be around for “two or three more [years]” sent recruits into a state of panic.
Looking for a victory looking to salvage an already shaky start to its conference schedule, South Carolina traveled to Oxford, Mississippi.
When you’re No. 1 you’re always under the gun. No team understands that sentiment more than the South Carolina women’s basketball team right now.
Honoring fallen United States soldiers represents a small fraction of University of South Carolina students’ plans for winter break. Junior Will Starke and sophomore Ben Dietrich would have to be included in that figure, however, as the two members of South Carolina’s men’s golf team participated in the Patriot All-America Invitational to close out the 2014 calendar year. Starke and Dietrich finished up the tournament shooting a 77 (+7) and a 78 (+8), respectively, but participating in an event that recognizes fallen U.S.
As the final horn sounded and several Gamecock players ran around with their arms in the air, it was easy to tell how big the team’s 64-60 upset victory over No. 9 Iowa State at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn meant to the South Carolina men’s basketball program.
For the third time this season, the South Carolina men’s basketball team (8-3) will play a Big 12 opponent when facing No. 9/9 (AP/USA Today Coaches’ Poll) Iowa State (10-1) Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
South Carolina won its fourth consecutive bowl game Saturday for the first time in program history with a 24-21 victory over Miami in the Duck Commander Independence Bowl.
For the South Carolina men’s basketball team, opportunity once again came knocking at the doors of Colonial Life Arena in the form of a meeting with a formidable Big 12 opponent.
When the South Carolina men's basketball team hosts Oklahoma State Saturday, meeting will be a unique sort of unpredictable.
The South Carolina women’s basketball team will look to continue its unblemished campaign Thursday night when it hosts Charlotte (1-5) at 8 p.m.
Last Sunday evening the South Carolina volleyball team gathered to watch the NCAA Selection Show, just like many other programs across the country did.