ESPN Analytics Projects How South Carolina's MBB Team Will Finish The Regular Season

South Carolina's men's basketball team has ten regular season games remaining and ESPN Analytics doesn't like their chances in most of them.

Head coach Lamont Paris, who's quickly becoming a favorite for conference and national Coach of the Year awards, has done a tremendous job in his second season with the South Carolina Gamecocks. The Ohio native has taken a team that won 11 games last season and has surpassed that and then some with 18 wins currently and ten regular season games remaining.

To see how the Gamecocks could finish the regular season, we decided to look at how ESPN Analytics projects the final ten games. As many know, the games are decided on the court, not on paper, and if this Lamont Paris-coached team has proven that, it's that his team can not only contend but defeat other squads who seemingly present a mismatch for South Carolina. However, seeing what other pundits and computer models project is always interesting.

ESPN's Matchup Predictor only has South Carolina winning four of their remaining ten games, favoring the Gamecocks against Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, LSU, and Florida. The main reason seems to be that all four of those games are at home, but the analytics don't seem to be taking into account that Lamont's team currently possesses the best road record in the SEC (4-2). If those projections ring true, Lamont Paris would finish the regular season 22-9 overall and 10-8 in SEC play.

Myles Stute and Meechie Johnson celebrating on the floor after defeating No. 5 Tennessee (30th Jan., 2024) / Brianna Paciorka | The Knoxville News-Sentinel

While we don't necessarily agree with some of these predictions, regardless of how this regular season ends, something tells us they finish better than a 22-9 record. Regardless, the Gamecocks' performance to this point in the season is a testament to just how successful of a year the team has had in a year they were predicted to finish last in their conference.

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