Girls’s Hoops Again in Motion Sunday – College of South Carolina Athletics

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South Carolina Gamecocks (12-1)
Head Coach: Dawn Staley
Top Scorer: Joyce Edwards (22.0)
Top Rebounder: Madina Okot (11.1)

Providence Friars (8-5)
Head Coach: Erin Batth
Top Scorer: Sabou Gueye (13.9)
Top Rebounder: Teneisia Brown (7.5)

 

Gamecock Notables

• South Carolina’s offense is among the many most potent within the nation this season, rating fourth within the NCAA with 92.6 factors per sport and second in area objective proportion at .544. Madina Okot (.641) and Joyce Edwards (.628) lead the SEC in area objective proportion and rank eighth and ninth within the nation, respectively. South Carolina is fifteenth within the nation with a .381 3-point area objective proportion as properly, highlighted by SEC-leader Tessa Johnson’s 47.3 % accuracy.

• The Gamecock protection is discovering its full potential as properly, permitting simply 52.9 factors per sport (twelfth in NCAA) and holding opponents to 31.4 % taking pictures (4th in NCAA).

• South Carolina’s paint dominance is an annual custom, and this season’s staff is second within the nation with 54.2 paint factors per sport, together with tying this system document for paint factors in a sport (74) in every of their final two outings.  The Gamecocks are taking pictures 66.0 % within the paint.

• South Carolina is ranked second within the NET this week with a schedule that features 2 Quad 1 video games. The Gamecocks lead the SEC in opponent common NET rating (42).

• National participant of the yr candidate Joyce Edwards is making a robust case to change into a favourite for the title together with her scoring (22.0 ppg) and effectivity (.628 FG%) rating tenth and ninth within the nation, respectively. The Gamecocks’ second-leading rebounder at 6.2 rpg, she can also be a menace defensively, rating seventh within the SEC with 1.6 blocks per sport and twelfth with 2.1 steals per sport. Edwards completed the semester robust, averaging 29.3 factors on 76.9 % taking pictures and seven.3 rebounds during the last 4 video games.

• Preseason AP All-American Ta’Niya Latson is discovering her footing with the Gamecocks, rating second on the staff in scoring (17.4 ppg, ninth in SEC) and assists (4.0 apg, twelfth in SEC). Her taking pictures percentages are the very best of her profession as is her 1.08 factors per possession. Combining her 17.4 factors per sport with the extra 9.1 scored off her assists, Latson has her fingers on 28.6 % of the Gamecocks’ offense.

• Senior ahead Madina Okot is embracing her capability to be dominant in any sport, rating second within the NCAA in double-doubles (8), fifth in area objective proportion (.641), eighth in rebounding (11.1) and twenty sixth in offensive rebounding (3.8).

 

By the Numbers
3 – Three Gamecocks rank among the many SEC’s high 20 scorers this season.

5 – The Gamecocks have posted at the very least 12 wins earlier than the beginning of SEC play for the final 5 seasons.

7 – South Carolina is among the many nation’s high 10 in seven statistical classes, together with 4 top-5 entries.

 

The Providence Series
The Gamecocks and Friars have by no means met in girls’s basketball. There is a connection between the packages, although, by way of PC assistant coach Valerie Nainima who performed two seasons at South Carolina. She earned Second-Team All-SEC recognition in 2009-10 because the Gamecocks’ main scorer and one of many nation’s high 3-point proportion shooters. She holds this system document for made 3s in SEC play (48 in 2009-10) and ranks ninth in program historical past in profession 3-point proportion (.338).

 

Home Sweet Home
The Gamecocks are 553-168 (.767) in residence video games (some information previous to 1976-77 didn’t embody location of video games). Current head coach Dawn Staley is 241-35 at residence for a program-best .873 profitable proportion.

Playing in its twenty fourth season at Colonial Life Arena, South Carolina boasts a 304-68 (.817) document within the constructing, together with 4 undefeated seasons since 2013-14. Staley’s share of that document is 238-35 (.872).

 

Schedule Sketch
South Carolina’s schedule continues to problem and put together the staff for the postseason. This yr’s slate options 12 video games in opposition to groups ranked within the present high 25 – 5 residence, 5 street and two impartial websites. Four of the ten video games are in opposition to groups within the high 10.

The non-conference schedule is highlighted by three ranked matchups – vs. #8/10 Southern Cal (W, 69-52), vs. #4/4 Texas (L, 64-66) and at #22/21 Louisville (W, 79-77).

In the NET rankings, South Carolina is ranked second and has 12 Quad 1 video games on the schedule, together with 4 non-conference matchups. The Gamecocks lead the SEC within the NET rankings and have the very best common opponent NET rating (42).

 

Block Party
The Gamecocks have been a premier shot blocking program since their first nationwide championship in 2017. They ranked within the high 15 in blocks per sport that season and have solely climbed larger within the eight subsequent seasons, together with 4 years main the nation within the stat and twice coming in second. Beyond the variety of blocks, their block proportion has led the nation three seasons.

This season, South Carolina is sixth within the nation with 6.8 blocks per sport, together with 4.3 in opposition to ranked opponents. The Gamecocks have blocked 16.6 % of opponents’ 2-point makes an attempt, which ranks sixth within the nation, in response to Her Hoop Stats.

Joyce Edwards tops the person record with 1.62 blocks per sport to rank seventh within the SEC. Madina Okot is simply behind at 1.58 per sport (eighth SEC). Gamecock guards have added 2.3 blocks per sport to the staff’s common.