Gamecocks Journey to The Bahamas for Pair of Summer season Journey Contests – College of South Carolina Athletics

NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS (Aug. 7, 2026) – South Carolina Men’s Basketball is headed again to The Bahamas this weekend for the primary time for the reason that 2023-24 season through which South Carolina tied this system document with 26 wins. The Gamecocks will likely be on the island from Aug. 7-11 and can play a pair of video games towards Victoria (Canada) on Saturday, Aug. 8 and The Bahamas National Team on Monday, Aug. 10.

South Carolina will keep at The Grand Hyatt Baha Mar in Nassau and can play on the Baha Mar Convention Center. Both video games are set for 4 p.m. (ET) and may have reside stats offered by StatBroadcast and will likely be streamed reside on FloSports. Fans are inspired to comply with @GamecockMBB on X for hyperlinks to the video games every day.

For the second consecutive season, the Gamecocks’ roster options 12 newcomers with seven student-athletes arriving to Columbia through the switch portal. Carolina returns three lettermen from final 12 months’s roster, headlined by Grant Polk who appeared in 30 video games, averaging 12.9 minutes per sport and three.8 factors per outing, whereas registering a 32.9 % clip from deep.

The Gamecocks hit the portal arduous this 12 months, bringing expertise and expertise to the Midlands. Kory Mincy is coming off a Second Team All-Atlantic 10 season final 12 months with George Mason, averaging 14.3 factors per sport in addition to 2.9 assists per outing. Shane Blakeney made the trek again house to his house state after spending the final three seasons at Drexel. The Rock Hill, S.C. native was named Second Team All-CAA after averaging a staff finest 14.2 factors in 2025-26, whereas additionally flattening 5.1 boards and handing out 2.5 assists.

Alongside the newly acquired guards is Texas switch and sharpshooter Camden Heide. Heide has appeared in 110 video games on the collegiate degree, together with 12 NCAA Tournament appearances along with competing within the 2024 National Championship sport with Purdue. Aleksas Bieliauskas will don the Garnet & Black after spending one season at Wisconsin. The rising sophomore performed 20.1 minutes per sport for the Badgers, averaging 4.9 factors per sport and 4.4 rebounds.

Fifth-year head coach Lamont Paris was in a position to herald three worldwide standouts in Mathias Alessanco (redshirting), Juan Fernández and Hugo López. Fernández, hailing from Argentina, is coming off his fifth season enjoying in Liga ACB, the highest league in Spain. Last season, he averaged 7.7 factors and 4.4 rebounds in 19.7 minutes of motion. López, a Spain native, performed in Primera FEB, the second division of Spanish basketball. The ahead averaged 2.7 factors and three.5 rebounds in 10.9 minutes of motion for Movistar Estudiantes.

South Carolina welcomed three freshmen to this 12 months’s roster in Alessanco, in addition to Marcus Johnson and South Carolina native Ford Wilder. Johnson hails from Cleveland, Ohio and was named Ohio Mr. Basketball in back-to-back years (2025, 2026), turning into simply the seventh participant all-time to perform the feat. The consensus four-star prospect was slotted because the No. 6 level guard prospect nationally and No. 3 participant within the state of Ohio after ending his prep profession with 2,364 factors.