South Carolina announces 2024 SEC men's basketball schedule
South Carolina has its full 2023-24 schedule firmly in stone.
The Gamecocks announced their 2024 SEC slate Thursday afternoon with all 18 league games now on the books.
South Carolina opens and closes the SEC slate with games against Mississippi State, opening Jan. 6 at home for one of the few times over the last few years. The Gamecocks’ opener is the first of three straight league games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season.
Of South Carolina’s first eight games, seven are against teams that made the NCAA Tournament with three of those against teams that made the second weekend: Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee.
The Gamecocks have home-and-homes with the Bulldogs, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Ole Miss. They’ll have true road games at Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn and Texas A&M with home tilts against Kentucky, LSU, Vanderbilt and Florida.
Here’s the full Gamecocks’ schedule (weekday games labled T for Tuesday, W for Wednesday), home games in bold:
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Jan. 6: Mississippi State
Jan. 9 (T): at Alabama
Jan. 13: at Missouri
Jan. 16 (T): Georgia
Jan. 20: at Arkansas
Jan. 23 (T): Kentucky
Jan. 27: Missouri
Jan. 30 (T): at Tennessee
Feb. 3: at Georgia
Feb. 6 (T): Ole Miss
Feb. 10: Vanderbilt
Feb. 14 (W): at Auburn
Feb. 17: LSU
Feb. 24: at Ole Miss
Feb. 28 (W): at Texas A&M
March 2: Florida
March 6 (W): Tennessee
March 9: at Mississippi State
South Carolina released its 2023 non-conference schedule last month with the season starting Nov. 6 against USC Upstate.
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The Gamecocks travel to Phoenix for their annual MTE with a game against DePaul followed by a matchup against either San Fransisco or Grand Canyon that Sunday.
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South Carolina has non-conference home games against VMI, Notre Dame, George Washington, Charleston Southern, Winthrop, Elon and Florida A&M. The annual rivalry game against Clemson will be on Dec. 6 with another road game Dec. 9 against East Carolina.
The Gamecocks will also play Virginia Tech Nov. 10 in Charlotte’s Spectrum Center as part of a Hall of Fame Classic doubleheader that day.
Here’s the full South Carolina non-conference schedule.
The Gamecocks are coming off an 11-21 season in year one under Lamont Paris where they finished 4-14 in the SEC. South Carolina played better to end the regular season, going 3-4 in their final seven regular-season games.
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South Carolina revamped its roster over the offseason, bringing in a trio of scholarship freshmen and four scholarship transfers.
Collin Murray-Boyles, Arden Conyers and Morris Ugusuk enroll as first-year players while Ta’Lon Cooper (Minnesota), Myles Stute (Vanderbilt), BJ Mack (Wofford) and Stephen Clark (The Citadel) come via the portal.
The Gamecocks return a few scholarship players from last season like Jacobi Wright, Meechie Johnson, Zachary Davis, Josh Gray, Ebrima Dibba and Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk.
