South Carolina women's basketball: LSU game is a sellout
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Let the countdown begin. South Carolina’s February 12 game against LSU is officially a sellout.
The game will be the eighth sellout at Colonial Life Arena. South Carolina is 4-3 in the previous sellouts. The Gamecocks won the most recent sellout, last season against Tennessee. They have also beaten Texas A&M (2020), UConn (2020), and Kentucky (2017).
The losses were to UConn (2016, 2018), and Mississippi State (2019).
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It’s a game that was seemingly circled before it was scheduled, but now it is on deck. South Carolina and LSU are the last two remaining undefeated teams in the country. Along with Tennessee, they are 8-0 in SEC play, the first time in history three teams have been 8-0.
The LSU game has been highly anticipated for over a year, since LSU gave Kim Mulkey a blockbuster contract that briefly made her reportedly the highest-paid coach in the country. A couple of renegotiations later, Dawn Staley usurped that title. The programs have appeared on a collision course ever since.
Mulkey has won three national championships, tied with Tara VanDerveer for third all-time. Dawn Staley has two national championships and is looking to move into that group this season.
South Carolina won a hard-fought game in Baton Rouge 66-60 last season. LSU added transfer Angel Reese this season, and behind Reese, the Tigers have become one of the elite teams in the country.
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A year after Aliyah Boston set an SEC record with 27 consecutive double-doubles, Reese has 20 double-doubles and counting. In all likelihood, the SEC Player of the Year will be either Reese or Boston, and there is a good chance the national player of the year awards could come down to those two as well.
Reese is averaging 23.7 points and 15.5 rebounds this season in 32.3 minutes per game. Boston is averaging 12.7 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 2.0 blocks in 24.3 minutes per game.
