Aleighsa Welch, the pride and soul of this past season's South Carolina women's basketball team, became the first Gamecock to be drafted since 2003 on Thursday night when she was selected 22nd overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2015 WNBA Draft.
When South Carolina faces Notre Dame in the Final Four on Sunday, it will be the biggest game in program history.
Last season, the South Carolina women’s basketball team was a No. 1 seed in the 2014 NCAA tournament , but bowed out with a loss to North Carolina in the Sweet 16 . It seemed like the Gamecocks were so close to putting everything together, but were seemingly missing a piece to the puzzle. That puzzle piece might be this year’s freshman class.
All season long, South Carolina believed it was talented enough to make the Final Four. As it turns out, the Gamecocks are.
The Gamecocks have never gotten this far before and we believe that, no matter what happens in Tampa Bay, they're worth seeing through to the end.
One year removed from an impressive freshman campaign that was deemed worthy of the SEC freshman of the year award, South Carolina sophomore center Alaina Coates said she felt like she had “simmered a little” in her sophomore season.
When the final buzzer sounded, the South Carolina players and coaches jumped and hugged each other, happy as ever.
Dawn Staley did not like what she was seeing. Less than two minutes into Friday’s Sweet 16 showdown against fourth-seeded North Carolina, top-seed South Carolina trailed 8-0.
For the first time since 2002, South Carolina is going to the Elite Eight. The top-seeded Gamecocks defeated fourth-seeded North Carolina 67-65 in the Sweet 16 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Last Wednesday, Sonny Vaccaro visited the Darla Moore School of Business to speak to sports and entertainment management students.
This past week, South Carolina entered the SEC tournament as the No. 11 seed with just six conference wins.
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.
Looking to end a two-game losing streak, the South Carolina men’s basketball team faced another team that finds itself near the bottom of the SEC standings and defeated Mississippi State (12-17, 5-11 SEC) 81-68 Saturday night at Colonial Life Arena behind an impressive performance from one its veteran players.
Traveling and being able to win on the road has been tough for head coach Frank Martin’s South Carolina team this year and the Gamecocks woes’ away from Colonial Life Arena continued Tuesday night as they fell 59-51 to the Alabama Crimson Tide.
With only three regular season games remaining, the South Carolina men’s basketball team heads to Tuscaloosa to face the Crimson Tide, one of the three SEC teams that the Gamecocks have won against this season.
Before South Carolina made its first shot from the field, the Aggies already held a 6-0 lead and Texas A&M led by ten points just over six minutes into the game.
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