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Texas vs Ohio State

  • I want Texas to win and expect Texas to win

  • I want Ohio State to win and expect Ohio State to win

  • I want Texas to win, but expect Ohio State to win

  • I want Ohio State to win, but expect Texas to win

  • I would answer, but the information is too personal

  • My wife won't let me answer

  • I have to check the Ann Selzer poll to predict the outcome

  • Both teams are salt of the earth, good people, I just can't choose

  • It is like choosing between Satan and Beelzebub

  • Remind me again which one is in the SEC?


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Texas vs Ohio State
semi-final game

WBB vs. Texas Live Thread

Well, here we are. Biggest game of the season for South Carolina women's basketball to date. Gamecocks holding down No. 2 in the rankings with No. 5 Texas in town. It's a renewal of the Dawn Staley vs. Vic Schaefer rivalry, and the winner will have an inside track towards an SEC regular season title.

Everyone but Ashlyn Watkins is present and warming up. It's a 1 p.m. tip on ESPN. Atmosphere is already building.
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Wall to wall all day freaking long coverage

Of fires in cali like it’s something new. This happens every year but the morons build back, move back knowing it’s not a safe inhabitable area. SuchTotal bs. Meanwhile hundreds of deaths and thousands of poor hardworking true Americans in WNC still suffering 4 months later from a real disaster but not a peep. Zero gov help, everyone taking care of each other. No empathy for the lazy, materialistic, useless trash in cali. Turn the page already. This was self inflicted. Nothing to see here. Rant over!

MBB vs. Auburn Live Thread

Good afternoon from Colonial Life Arena, where the vibes are pretty bleak for South Carolina men's basketball heading into this one.

No Jamarii Thomas, no Myles Stute, and the No. 2 team in the country (to be No. 1 with a win) in town in the Auburn Tigers. Can't remember the last time I saw a home team as a 17-point underdog in a men's basketball conference game, but that's where this one is today. Gamecocks looking for a miracle and something to build on with some more winnable games coming up against Vanderbilt and Oklahoma next week.

It's a 1 p.m. ET tip on SEC Network.

WBB vs. Texas A&M Live Thread

Welcome back to Colonial Life Arena, where South Carolina women's basketball is finally back for its first home game in 11 days. Conference home opener against Texas A&M is a 5:00 p.m. ET tip on ESPN2, the final game for the Gamecocks before a stretch of five in a row against ranked opponents.

Maddy McDaniel has already been ruled out on the SEC availability report, but she's out there stretching and participating in warm-ups so that's a good sign. No Ashlyn Watkins, of course. Everyone else, including Sakima Walker, is available and warming up.

Updates to follow.

MBB vs. Alabama Live Thread

Good evening from Colonial Life Arena. Conference play is here on the men's side as South Carolina hosts No. 5 Alabama, a huge opportunity for this team to get back on track. But also, an uberly talented opponent who will be smelling blood in the water after South Carolina lost its first first league game by 35.

It's a 7 p.m. ET tip on SEC Network. No Myles Stute for the Gamecocks tonight, out indefinitely with blood clots in his left leg in case you missed it.

Bowling Green DL Davonte Miles says he has OV with South Carolina Jan 9-10

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Davonte Miles is a 6-foot-5, 275-pound defensive lineman who enters his junior season in 2025. He recorded 11 tackles and two solo tackles in 2024, 14 tackles and eight solo tackles in 2023, and one solo tackle as a redshirt freshman in 2022. The native of River Rouge, Michigan told me he will be on campus at the University of South Carolina for an official visit from Jan 9-10. "I set up an official visit with (defensive line coach) Travian Robertson from Jan. 9-10," he said.

The Gamecocks offered him on Dec. 21. He also reports an offer from Memphis.

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What Tessa Johnson, Te-Hina Paopao said after South Carolina beat Mississippi State

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Tessa Johnson and Te-Hina Paopao both spoke off podium today after South Carolina women's basketball beats Mississippi State 95-68 at Humphrey Coliseum, improving to 14-0 on the season and 2-0 in SEC play. Johnson scored a career-high 22 points, and Paopao had 15. Here are exclusive quotes from both, as GamecockScoop was the only of the South Carolina websites present in Starkville.

Tessa Johnson:

On the reaction after Ashlyn Watkins went down:
"I think that's just kind of just how it happens. We love each other out there, and not even out there, just in general we love in general. Yes, we're having her back out there. Obviously she's a big piece of our team, so someone had to step up."

On Dawn Staley's comment that she shoots better when the team is trailing:
"I don't really know. She's probably right. I was just, I don't know. I think I've got a lot of confidence from my teammates and my coaches and obviously getting in the gym. I was talking to my dad, and we were just talking about my shot because he's the one who taught me how to shoot. He just told me to relax more, and I feel like that's what I did also."

On the defensive adjustments in the game:
"We talked about screen coverage, just going under on certain players based on how they were playing and stuff. I think that was our biggest adjustment. We went zone a little bit."

On how well she is playing lately and playing her role:
"Everyone is telling me to trust the process, so I'm just trusting the process out there. I put in the work and go off of my teammates, and whatever is open is open."

On scoring her career-high:
"I don't even think about that, I just go with the flow of the game and try to win. That's what my mentality is."

Te-Hina Paopao:

On defensive adjustments:
"Us guards were getting beat off the dribble. We weren't guarding the 3-point line like we should, and we just kept getting blown by and then our posts got on us. We were like, we've got to lock in and guard better. And that's what happened."

On if the adjustments were more mental or physical:
"It was a little of both. We just needed to loosen up because they weren't really shooting the 3-ball. We were pressuring way far from the basket, and that allowed them to get downhill on us, and that's what triggered our help and the weak side wasn't there, so the posts just got on us guards that we've got to guard better, and we did. And we appreciate the posts holding us accountable on that part."

On the mentality after Ashlyn went down:
"Prayers to Ash, and that we've just got to play for her. She's been dominating thus far. We were a little upset about it, but at the same time we've still got a game to play. She's always going to be in our prayers, and we just hope that she gets better."

On Tessa shooting better when the team is trailing:
"Once Tessa gets going, we have a lot of trust in her to shoot the ball really well and she did that tonight. She gave us a head start on that aspect. I'm just really glad that she's found her flow and found her rhythm and we've just got to keep that going for her."

On her and Tessa getting going in the second quarter run:
"We work really well with each other . We just got it going, and once one of us gets it going, I can feel the other one get it going. Once she got going, I got going, and it was good to play off each other. 5 really got us going."

On getting back home;
"I'm really excited. I love playing at CLA, and I'm just really excited to get back to Columbia and start playing in front of the home crowd."

WBB at Mississippi State Live Thread

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Back at The Hump for South Carolina women's basketball's second SEC game of the season. Gamecocks taking on the Bulldogs today in a 2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. local time tip on SEC Network.

Maddy McDaniel did not travel with the team as she recovers from her injury, Sakima Walker is here but not warming up and will not play today, everyone else is warming up and ready to go.

Live updates all day, of course.
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