South Carolina women's basketball: Just win
As low as South Carolina felt on Sunday, there’s an easy way to fix things over the final two weeks of the season: just win.
South Carolina gets a warmup against struggling Arkansas and then finishes the season with three Quad 1 opponents: at Vanderbilt, at Ole Miss, and at home against Kentucky.
Win them all and the Gamecocks are 27-3 SEC champions with a 13-3 Quad 1 record. They would have the most Quad 1 wins in the country.
The last four games are a good test for South Carolina as well. Arkansas will test the three-point defense that disappeared against UConn. Vanderbilt has a great inside-out game with Khamil Pierre and Mikayla Blakes, who has scored 50 points twice this season. Ole Miss has the nation’s 19th-ranked scoring defense. Kentucky’s size and efficiency will test South Carolina’s patience.
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Texas (also SEC champions), currently leads the country in Quad 1 wins, but has just one Quad 1 game remaining and would finish second with 12 wins. (UCLA could potentially reach 12 Quad 1 wins as well.)
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There’s no way that resume doesn’t get a number one seed in the tournament, and that’s before factoring in an SEC tournament run. South Carolina has won the last four tournaments in Greenville and only lost there once under Dawn Staley.
That includes a pair of double-digit wins over Vic Schaefer while he was at Mississippi State. There could be a rematch with Texas in the Upstate.
That’s getting ahead of things, though.
It starts on Thursday. Get a win, start a new winning streak, and keep building.
