Gamecocks Take to Georgia Thursday night – University of South Carolina Athletics

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Gamecock Notables

  • Gamecocks have been at the top of Netto locations in the majority of the season thanks to a schedule dominated by ranked opponents and Quad 1 games. South Carolina’s 10 Quad 1 wins are three more than any other team in the nation, and there are five more quad 1 matches among the eight-season’s eight remaining matches.

  • South Carolina’s defense has kept opponents for a sec-Low 34.3 percent shooting to rank sixth in the nation, and opponents are only a little better from close range and shoot 40.0 percent in the paint. Gamecocks ’10 ranked opponents did not do better and hit only 34.4 percent from the field, including 25.9 percent from the arch.

  • Gamecocks ’57, 1 percent shooting Sunday against Auburn, was their best mark in league games this season. Overall, South Carolina 16 is in the nation with a .471 field target percentage, including a sec-best 48.3 percent mark in league games.

  • South Carolina’s bench has outscored an opponent’s starters 11 times this season, including three ranked teams. On the season, Gamecock matches the bench’s NCAA-best 41.8 points per year. Play the average of his opponent’s starter.

  • Redshirt-junior Raven Johnson is fifth in NCAA with a 3.35 assist-to-turnover relationship. The Veteran Point Guard has been on top of his game in the last two weeks, an average of 8.3 points, 4.8 assists and 3.5 assists per day. Battle and shoot 52.0 percent during the last four excursions.

  • This year’s candidate candidate Joyce Edwards is Gamecocks’ top scorer with most of her production coming to the best teams in the country. Her 12.7 points per Camp Total includes 12.1 per Fight against ranked opponents and 15.1 against SEC enemies. Against the five ranked SEC teams she faced in January, Edwards were an average of 16.0 points of 60.4 percent shooting.

  • Junior tips Chloe Kitts has been stable in the SEC action and shaken a tough league opener to average 10.8 points on 55.7 percent shooting and 8.1 rebounds during the last eight games. She is third on the team with 2.3 assists per League match after handing out only 10 in total in 13 non-conference games.

By the numbers
6.1 – South Carolina is sixth in the nation with 6.1 blocked shots per day. Match, including a sec-best 6.44 per League match.

11– Eleven Gamecocks have scored in double at least once this season, including five that have hit the brand at least nine times.

41.7 – Gamecocks ’41, 7 points in the paint per Games are fourth most in the nation.

The Georgia series
The Gamecocks are 25-33 all the time against Lady Bulldogs, but 21 of these wins have come in the 27 matches in the Dawn Staley era (beginning 2008-09), including the current 18-match victory.

In the last season’s victory of 70-56 in Columbia (February 18), South Carolina overcame a seven-point half-time deficit with a dazzling defensive in the second half, which Outscored the Lady Bulldogs 42-21 in the last 20 minutes.

Ranking Review
South Carolina is ranked No. 2 in both the AP vote and USA Today/WBCA Coaches’ Poll this week.

It marks Gamecocks 110. Consideration Post in AP Top 10, starting with 2019-20 Preseason Poll. It is the longest active line and the 10th longest in the story of this poll (9. is 111, Stanford). Their 241 straight appearances in the AP vote dating back to December 10, 2012, marks the second longest active strip in the nation and is the eighth longest all the time (7th, Texas Tech, 248).

In the US Today/WBCA Coaches’ vote, South Carolina has been in the top 10 since claiming No. 10 place in the 2019-20 Preseason vote.

Serious planning
S.Outh Carolina head coach Dawn Staley has never been afraid to challenge his team to prepare it for the rigor in March and April. This season is no different.

Gamecocks ’30 game season plan includes 14 games against teams in national rankings this week or at the time of the game, including seven against teams in the top 10. Six of the 14 matches are against opponents of non-conferences.

Over the past 10 seasons, South Carolina has played an average of 9.6 games in regular season against ranked enemies. If this season’s current 14 possessions would be the most common seasonal games in the program history. The six against non-conference enemies match the plan 2021-22 for the program HIGH.

So far, South Carolina is 9-1 against ranked enemies-VS #9/8 NC State (W, 71-57; 11/10), on #5/6 UCLA (L, 62-77; 11/24), vs. . #15/15 IOWA STATE (W, 76-36; 11/28), VS #8/9 DUKE (W, 81-70, 12/5), vs. #9/13 TCU (W, 85- 52, 12/8), vs. #5/6 Texas (W, 67-50), on No. 13/13 Alabama (W, 76-58), vs. #13/13 Oklahoma (W, 101-60), against No. 5/4 LSU (W, 66-56), on No. 18/17 Tennessee (W, 70-63).

Paint production
South Carolina has long checked the paint and this season numbers have maintained this standard.

With 51.3 percent of their points coming in the paint, Gamecock’s fourth in the nation is with 41.7 paint points per year. Match, according to CBBANALYTICS.COM, and oppose this room with 15.8 points per year. Match. They shoot 54.7 percent in the paint compared to the opponents’ 40.0 percent accuracy in space.