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South Carolina earns No. 1 seed, Texas is No. 2 in SEC Women's Tournament following coin flip by Greg Sankey

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South Carolina HC Dawn Staley, Texas HC Vic Schaefer
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The No. 1 seed in the SEC Women’s Tournament came down to a tie-breaking coin flip this afternoon. Now, we know if it came up Gamecocks or Longhorns for Greg Sankey today at the league office.

The flip, which aired live this afternoon on the SEC Network, saw South Carolina earn the No. 1 seed for the SEC Tournament later this week in Greenville. That means Texas will be the No. 2 seed in the women’s bracket.

“Okay, here we go,” Sankey said with the flip.

“Execution under pressure. Execution under pressure,” joked Sankey following the result. “Yeah, I’ve been here for two hours flipping the coin practicing so things happen with purpose here so we executed well.”

South Carolina and Texas remained tied with their respective wins to each finish in the conference standings at 15-1. Each team won at home to close the regular season with the No. 6 Gamecocks winning at 78-66 over No. 15 Kentucky while the No. 1 Longhorns won 72-46 over Florida.

At 15-1 apiece in the SEC, they had already moved past the first two of the three tiebreakers as they split their season series against one another, with a 67-50 win for the Gamecocks in Columbia in January before a 66-62 win for the Longhorns in Austin in February, while also not having a record to compare against their highest-rated common opponent as neither lost another game to anyone else in league play.

“Great basketball and two great teams that are champions of the Southeastern Conference. That’s what’s happened this season,” Sankey said.

With this, South Carolina will play their opening game at 12 p.m. EST as the first game on Friday while Texas will open their first appearance in that field by starting the second session at 6 p.m. EST later that night. That will be part of what Sankey expects to be another great event inside Bon Secours Wellness Arena.

“I would expect what we’ve seen today,” Sankey said. “lose games, an upset or two. Teams that are right on that cut line, that borderline, or inside the bubble or outside the bubble know they have another opportunity against the highest level of competition to show themselves in front of the selection committee.”

“We’ve had outstanding ticket sales. Our hosts in Greenville have been great hosts over the years. It’s a wonderful city,” said Sankey. “Hopefully we can continue to build a following around our women’s basketball tournament.”