Women’s hoops head to Texas for the top -5 test – South Carolina Gamecocks

Gamecock remarkable

• South Carolina’s schedule is proven to be the most difficult in the country with the cumulative percentage of their opponents, which is the best .700 NCAA. At the top of seven colleagues from the SEC team in the top 25 this week, Gamecocks’ Slate includes six non -conference games against teams ranked this week or during the game.

• Even against this difficult slate, including the NCAA-the best 10 games against ranked opponents behind them, South Carolina still ranks among the best in the nation in several main categories of the article-14th place game (81.0 ), 15th in the field goal percentage (.471), seventh in margin of evaluation (+25.7), sixth in the protection of the target of the field (.342), 12th of the average (41,9) and 15th in a bounce margin (+8.7).

• Gamecocks have created the most separation this season in the middle neighborhoods of the game, exceeding opponents with 8.0 points per second and 7.6 points per third quarter. The difference manufacturer is protection, which limits opponents to 32.7 percent shooting in the second quarter and 33.6 percent in the third.

• The freshman of the year, candidate Joyce Edwards, the highest 12.4 points per game include a 14.2 competition in Sec, which ranks 19th in the League, and 12.1 per match against ranked opponents. She shoots with the top 62.4 percent against the enemies of SEC and 58.3 percent against the ranked teams. Five of her team 10 games leading the score team are against the ranked opponents, as they are six of her team 16 matches that evaluate double numbers.

• Junior striker Chloe Kits has been an offensive tear in the last two weeks, an average of 11.3 points with 62.5 percent in the last three competitions. It is one of the best 10 fights per SEC (7.6) and in the league game (7.4).

• South Carolina is known to win only during Raven Johnson’s time at the point. The red junior shirt has a finger on the pulse of the Gamecock violation-is in 13th place in SEC with 3.5 assists of conference game-i is a threat in defense-class in eighth place in the conference with 2.1 theft per game of the league. Johnson leads the league and is the sixth in the nation in the ratio of assistant-back (3.33) in addition to heading the defense efforts of one of the strictest teams of the nation. In the last three games, it has poured 7.3 points over 53.3 percent shooting.

On the numbers
4 – Four of the last seven seven games of Gamecocks are against the ranked opponents.

23.6 – Against the ranked opponents, Joyce Edwards scored 23.6 points in 40 minutes.

57.9 – South Carolina has only authorized 57.9 points per match of ranked opponents at 34.4 percent shooting this season.

Texas
Gamecocks are 3-2 for all time against Longhorns, with all three victories coming to the Dawn Staley era.

During the first meeting this season (January 12), South Carolina took control from the beginning with the locking of the lock, which allowed only 15.4 percent firing and a frightening crime, which launched 62.5 percent in the initial quarter. Longhorns dominated the offensive boards, but only fired by 27.8 percent for the game, as Gamecocks provided a 67-50 victory in Colombia.

Review of the 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 (91 is 111, Stanford). Their 241 direct appearances in the AP poll, dating from December 10, 2012, mark the second longest active series in the country and is the eighth longest of all time (7th, Texas Tech, 248).

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.

Sec sayings
Selected by the coaches in the league to win its fourth SEC title this season, South Carolina has been a standard in the league over the last decade, accumulating eight titles in a regular season of 2013-14 (11 seasons) and ending no lower than the second At that time. From this season, Gamecocks have a record of 171-15 (.919) in the League, including 87-3 brands (.967) from 2019-20. South Carolina set a new SEC record with its 43rd win in the League with its victory over Georgia on February 18, 2024. The stand covers three seasons, beginning on January 2, 2022, with a victory over Mississippi State and is now 57, at 57, Who is bound for the sixth in NCAA history for winning the conference (the 5th is La. Tech, 66).

Gamecocks also had a lock in the SEC tournament, winning eight titles since they requested their first in 2015, they became the first program to win four consecutive tournaments, claiming that Crowns 2015-18.

In the last decade, three Gamecocks have been declared Player of the Year SEC a Commonted Sevens, three have collected seven defensive players of the year of SEC, two are the 6th of the year in the League, three are a freshman in the League of the Year, one is a scientist. At SEC of the Year, and Staley was the coach of the year seven times, a shy of the eight selections of Pat Sumit.

All about the balance
Like last season, the biggest advantage of South Carolina is its depth with the list of 2024-25 with six Gamecocks, which average at least 18.0 minutes and scored at least 8.1 points per game last season.

This season, 10 Gamecocks played at least 14.0 minutes per game. Seven average at least 7.0 points, including five, which average 9.0 or more. Five players have grabbed at least 4.0 struggles per game. Eleven Gamecocks have inserted into double numbers at least once, including five, who have done it at least nine times, and six players have led the team to score at least once.

Dial the protection
The Dawn of the Dawn Stiley has always set a premium for the defense and this year the team has maintained this tradition while facing one of the most difficult schedules in the country.

Gamecocks are 21st in the nation in the defense, which allows only 55.3 points per game and allowed only 57.9 points per match against ranked opponents. The defense has allowed more than 70 points only twice and has kept its opponent under 60 points 14 times, including six ranked enemies.

Ranking fourth in the nation in blocks of a match (6.2), Gamecocks allowed opponents to shoot only 34.2 percent of the terrain, ranked sixth in the country.