Good start against Arkansas
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Looks to be a great win. That UGA game really hurt. If we close this one out, could have been 4-1. That said, 3-2 looks pretty darn good.
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Nice recovery from the GA loss.
Never trailed and took control of the game.
Never trailed and took control of the game.
First time I have heard BJ speak. Very mature and well spoken.
Great, great win. Still think it will be tough to make the Big Dance. BUT, with Paris' coaching plus the grit of our players, we have a chance. I never thought I'd be saying that in Year 2. In my view, we are ahead of schedule.
Gamecocks win 77-64 over Arkansas to improve to 15-3 overall and 3-2 in conference play. A good bounce back from their loss to Georgia last week - we'll be playing Kentucky next, then @ Tennessee 2 games after that, then Mississippi 2 games after that, then @ Auburn 2 games after that. All ranked opponents and tough games. Between those games however we play Missouri, @ Georgia, Vanderbilt, and LSU. We have a good chance to go 4-4 in those games, although they will be tough. It would be great to go at least .500 in SEC play, which would put us at 21-10 heading into the conference tournament. Would that be good enough to get us into.....you know.....?
In your view? In everyone's view. I don't think anyone was putting big dance and USC in the same sentence prior to the start of the season.
Just think how good his program will be two years from now. Seriously.
I think .500 will be good enough unless we win a bunch of games over the next two weeks and fall to .500 down the stretch. If we go .500, need to play well on the backend of the schedule.
Lunardi has 8 sec teams in. That’s really strong. .500 should absolutely get us in.
Very balanced scoring. All starters in double figures but MJ (which is surprising). Murray-Boyles and Davis playing well. If they both stick around, they are going to be very strong players in future years.
Dude is a beast out there!! Boy do I wish we had him for another year or two!
Good video out there of lamont dancing with the team after today's win. Reminded me how much I don't miss F.M.
Wow, looks like a lot of y’all all of a sudden are on the Paris train. I guess winning does cure everything.
A few of us were on it from the jump…but we didn’t have much company!!
I was on the Paris train the day he was hired. I have post to back it up.
To be fair, we could have hired Barney Fife and I would have jumped on that train. Was simply thrilled the day F.M. was fired.
He is a good coach, good recruiter and a great representative of the University.
Thanks goodness for UK and A&M wins...it puts back in after the one loss teams....
Dang it, i'm still stinging over that loss to UGA at HOME no less!!!!
Dang it, i'm still stinging over that loss to UGA at HOME no less!!!!
I saw the NCAA approved Kentucky's 7'2" center to start playing today. Supposed to be a stud from overseas.
I could see our defensive intensity was up from the get-go, but Arkansas as much talent as they might have is not a very good team, they are like a lot of Carolina teams in the past looking for something to click that never does!
I believe the bottom line with USC is live by the 3 die by the 3! But it sure helps for BJ to have a big game and for us to make some free throws as a team!
I believe the bottom line with USC is live by the 3 die by the 3! But it sure helps for BJ to have a big game and for us to make some free throws as a team!
I recall you, Dabo and me. There may have been some others. But, we 3 repeatedly defended Lamont. I made the case that his overall record and conference record (and/or standing) improved each year he was at UT-Chattanooga as Head Coach. In his final year there (5th), they made the Big Dance , losing to BIG member Illinois by only a single point. And I stated that, prior to that, he was an assistant to one of the top basketball coaches of the early 21st century in the nation, Bo Ryan of Wisconsin. And when I observed that Paris "overachieved" in his first season at South Carolina, somebody, (I don't remember who now ) criticized me for saying that Lamont overachieved with his first team here. Well, he did overachieve as his team finished higher in the conference than most expected we would. And he did so after losing around 75% of the previous team due to graduation and/or transfer to UMASS and Frank Martin. Paris' late hire meant he had to replace those guys with mostly a ragtag of leftovers in the recruiting pool. The bottom line is that I believe anyone would find it difficult to disagree with the statement: "Lamont Paris was a good hire".
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Yes. I fear that if we end up in the first 8 out, it will be the UGA loss that put us there. A good win yesterday (as any of them are on the road), but because of the UGA loss, we still need to win one we shouldn't.
But mizzu had a HOME game taken away - gift wrapped. Could be 4-1 but could easily be 2-3 or 1-4. We were dogs to both mizzu and Arkansas. Time to move on.
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