South Carolina women's basketball: SEC release dates for conference games
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South Carolina already knew the where, now it knows the when as the SEC announced the conference schedule Wednesday afternoon.
The SEC announced the home and away opponents back in May, along with the rotating home-and-home opponents. Now they have announced the dates. Times and television information is still being finalized.
South Carolina opens conference play with a pair of road games at Missouri on January 2 and Mississippi State on January 5. A visit from Texas A&M on January 9 starts the home schedule.
The season ends with a home game against Kentucky on March 2. The SEC Tournament is March 5-9 in Greenville.
The slate includes ten games against opponents that made the NCAA Tournament last season. They are evenly split with five at home and five on the road.
With the addition of Oklahoma and Texas, this is the first SEC season with 16 teams. Rather than expand the conference schedule, the conference opted to change the scheduling format so that each team plays one opponent home-and-home and the other 14 teams once.
Initially, the SEC announced that South Carolina and Kentucky would continue to play home-and-home, but later changed it to a rotating opponent that changes annually. This season South Carolina and Texas are paired.
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The all-time series between Texas and South Carolina is tied 2-2. Texas won the first two games at home in 1988 and at the Junkanoo Jam in 2005. South Carolina won in Austin in 2016 and in the NCAA Elite Eight in San Antonio in 2021. The Longhorns, who are expected to be national championship contenders like the Gamecocks, will make their highly-anticipated first trip to Columbia on January 12. The Gamecocks make the return trip on February 9.
Oklahoma will be making its first trip to Columbia since 2006, the first year of a home-and-home. Oklahoma won both games and won again at the 2009 Paradise Jam to lead the all-time series 3-0. Oklahoma visits Columbia on January 19.
South Carolina also hosts LSU on January 23, part of a crucial two-week stretch that also includes a trip to Tennessee. The Tigers and Gamecocks have combined to win the last three national championships.
South Carolina has won three consecutive SEC regular season championships and eight in the past 11 seasons. South Carolina hasn’t lost a regular season conference game since December 30, 2021, at Missouri, the last time they opened SEC play at the other Columbia.
The Gamecocks have won a league-record 47 consecutive regular-season conference games.
With the announcement of the conference slate, South Carolina’s schedule is nearly complete. South Carolina has announced non-conference games against Michigan in Las Vegas (November 4), NC State in Charlotte (November 10), ECU (November 17), at UCLA (November 24), Iowa State and Purdue (November 28 and 30 in Fort Meyers), Duke (December 5), at TCU (December 8), USF (December 15), Charleston Southern (December 19), Wofford (December 29), and UConn (February 16).
The date for the game at Clemson has not been announced. Staley said on social media an unidentified HBCU has also agreed to play the Gamecocks, which should be the final piece of the puzzle.
Overall, the Gamecocks have won 73 consecutive regular-season games and just completed the tenth undefeated season in NCAA history.
Schedule
Thu., Jan. 2 at Missouri
Sun., Jan. 5 at Mississippi State
Thu., Jan. 9 Texas A&M
Sun., Jan. 12 Texas
Thu., Jan. 16 at Alabama
Sun., Jan. 19 Oklahoma
Thu., Jan. 23 LSU
Mon., Jan. 27 at Tennessee
Sun., Feb. 2 Auburn
Thu., Feb. 6 at Georgia
Sun., Feb. 9 at Texas
Thu., Feb. 13 Florida
Thu., Feb. 20 Arkansas
Sun., Feb. 23 at Vanderbilt
Thu., Feb. 27 at Ole Miss
Sun., Mar. 2 Kentucky
