Live updates/game thread: South Carolina MBB vs. North Florida
Welcome to college basketball opening night.
South Carolina will open the 2024-25 regular season against North Florida at home on Monday. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. on SEC Network Plus. You can also listen to the game on 107.5 The Game.
GamecockCentral is here at Colonial Life Arena to provide live updates throughout the evening.
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One area where South Carolina men’s and women’s basketball will each be better this year is…
By: Jack Veltri
This place was being dubbed as the “Mecca of College Basketball” last season. And rightfully so.
South Carolina continued to be the standard for women’s basketball, finishing 38-0 and winning another national championship. On the men’s side, things weren’t initially looking up to say the least. The Gamecocks hadn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since their Final Four run in 2017.
But as it turned out, they proved everyone wrong and wound up winning 26 games en route to a trip to the Big Dance. And with both programs at the height of their powers, Colonial Life Arena was the place to be.
Going into this new season, the expectations are the same. For the women, it’s taking the next step after winning it all last year. As for the men, it’s still about proving those who don’t believe in them wrong for the second straight year. Only this time, the goal is to do more than just make the tournament.
As both teams begin the regular season on Monday, here is one area where they each feel they have gotten better in since last season.
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WBB: ‘We’re much more unselfish’
It’s hard to nitpick when South Carolina has had as much success as it has had since winning its first title in 2017. But even after winning three titles in seven years, head coach Dawn Staley is still finding things her team can improve upon.
As her team gets set to make a title defense and try to go back-to-back, she believes they’re “much more unselfish.”
“We do a really good job in finding who should shoot it. And that wasn’t always the case last year,” Staley said. “We were unselfish, but I think they know and have logged enough minutes to know what people are really good at.”
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