WBB Review: Gamecocks make a short trip to deal with Georgia – 247Sports

In the victory of last season 70-56 in Colombia (February 18), the highest-ranked South Carolina has overcome the half-time deficit with seven points with bubbles from the second half, exceeding Lady Bulldogs 42-21 in the last 20 minutes.

Recording of ranking: South Carolina is ranked # 2 in both the AP poll and the US coaches poll today/WBCA this week.

It marks the 110th consecutive entry into the Top 10 of Gamecocks in the Top 10, starting with the pre-season poll 2019-20. This is the longest active series and the 10th longest in the history of this poll (9th is 111, Stanford). Their 241 direct participation in the AP poll dating from December 10, 2012, marks the second longest active series in the country and is the eighth longest of all time (7th, Texas Tech248).

In the poll of US coaches, today/WBCA South Carolina is in the top 10 after asking for place No. 10 in the pre-season poll 2019-20.

Serious planning: South Carolina’s head coach Dawn Staley was never afraid to challenge her team to prepare him for the rigor of March and April. This season is no different.

The schedule of the regular season of the Gamecocks 30 games includes 14 games against teams in the national ranking this week or during the game, including seven against teams in the top 10. Six of the 14 games are against the opponents of the non-conference.

In the last 10 seasons, South Carolina has played an average of 9.6 games in a regular season against ranked enemies. If the current 14 years are held, these will be the most regular ranking games in the history of the program. The six against non-conference enemies corresponds to the 2021-22 schedule for the High program.

So far South Carolina is 9-1 against ranked enemies-noise #9/8 NC State (W, 71-57; 11/10), on #5/6 Ucla (L, 62-77; 11/24), vs. 15/15 Iowa (W, 76-36; 11/28), against #8/9 Duke (W, 81-70, 12/5), vs. 9/13 Tcu (W, 85-52, 12/8), against #5/6 Texas (W, 67-50), on #13/13 Alabama (W, 76-58), against #13/13 Oklahoma (W, 101-60), against #5/4 Lsu (W, 66-56), of #18/17 Tennessee (W, 70-63).

Production of paint: South Carolina has long controlled the paint and numbers of this season have confirmed this standard.

With 51.3 percent of their points coming in the paint, Gamecocks are fourth in the country with 41.7 Paint Point per game, according to cbbanalytics.com, and surpass opponents in this space with 15.8 points per game. They shoot 54.7 percent in paint compared to the accuracy of opponents 40.0 percent in space.