By james art 
An additional session is needed to decide, but the wait continues.
South Carolina’s men’s basketball is still looking for his first victory in SEC game after the seventh consecutive game, another heartfelt fracture at the Colonial Life Arena only three days after dropping a game with one point against Florida. South Carolina tore off a spiritual rally to delete a 14-point deficit in the last seven minutes and to force overtime, but No. 14 Mississippi states 65-60 in the additional frame.
“If it doesn’t break you, it will make you stronger,” Lamont Paris said. “And that didn’t break our guys. And I see that since we had a section of games that were all against super high quality teams, they were really close to the wire, current scenari On our way. “
Both teams struck only one shot in the first four minutes of overtime, but Mississippi State (16-4, 4-3) took the lead in two Josh Hubbard Free throws with a little less than a minute go. The next possession was the critical moment of the game, the microcosm of all the dissatisfaction this season was for South Carolina (10-10, 0-7).
Forward Nickname I missed the arrangement and appeared to bring it back to tie the game with 35.4 seconds remaining.
A quick whistle. There is no basket. Mississippi State Ball.
Pringle tilted the ball while it was still above the cylinder, which led to an offensive door call, which wiped the binding bucket from the board and forced Gamecocks to ignite on the next trip down. Claudel Harris, Jr. I made both free throws to make it a game with two possessions, and Gamecocks never received another possession with the ability to re -tie the game.
It was the latest in the line of very familiar endings for South Carolina. Loss of three points to Obun, another three-point loss to Zumer-Boych in Vanderbilt, a single point loss from Florida, and now this means that four of the seven conference games were in doubt until the final possession, but the recording is unmistakable.
South Carolina is 0-7 on Sect Play for the first time in the history of the program, still without a breakthrough, such as the middle of the Slate Conference is outlined next week. This last Sanger at least included a return and commendable struggle for a team in the midst of the lost season, something that looked far away for most of the afternoon.
“I was pleased with how we competed and how we fought,” Paris said. “I believe these games in the way we win.”
Gamecocks lags 50-36 with stay under seven minutes but point fuse Jamary Thomas He led a fierce charge down the section in his first game back from the spraining of the right knee. South Carolina’s transfer guard, still with a knee bracket, scored 19 points, including 10 in the second half. He ran into a clutch 3-indicator to cut the deficit up to six points with less than four minutes, and struck all four attempts to freely throw during the rally.
Zahari Davis He made the key game by stealing in the middle and sliding on the floor to form the game of the final offensive possession of the regulation of South Carolina. The defense set by a suddenly rejuvenated home crowd pressed for a final stop at Hubbard’s Buzzer-Beater and sent the game in overtime, the second overtime game of South Carolina in the last month.
“It wasn’t like a big run,” Mississippi’s chief coach Chris Yans He said. “It just slowly, but it certainly started to move away from us.”
Far from his team, but not far enough in regulation. The Mississippi State swallowed the impact, grouped again, and returned to his best protective self in the Overtim. Execution of shooting 1 of 6 in overtime has sank into the attempt to return South Carolina and retained zero in the victory column in SEC PLAY.
“We just have to continue to mature and learn from all the scenarios of the game in which we are invested,” said Thomas. “Just keep learning from them and try to go out with the victory.”
If South Carolina does it in its next opportunity, it will have to be on the way. Gamecocks travel to Georgia on Tuesday for their first of two games against the Bulldogs this season.
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