South Carolina's WBB Team Sits Alone At The Top Both Nationally & In SEC
After the chaos that ensued in women's college basketball on Sunday, for the first time in the 2023-24 season, Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks are figuratively in a league of their own when it comes to their on-court performance both on a national scale and within their conference.
Let's start with a look at the national landscape. Entering Sunday, South Carolina and UCLA were the only remaining unbeaten teams in the sport. However, the Bruins lost to their archrivals, the Southern Cal' Trojans, 73-65 in the Galen Center, handing them their first loss since their sweet sixteen loss this past March that they suffered from, ironically enough, the hands of South Carolina. This defeat led to the Gamecocks being the unanimous No. 1 team in Monday's AP Top 25 Poll.
Dawn Staley talking to an official during the Gamecocks matchup with Mississippi State (7th Jan., 2024)
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In the SEC, two teams who sat atop the standings alongside South Carolina dropped their first conference game of the season. We'll start here with the more nationally recognized team, the LSU Tigers, the defending national champions whose record remained unblemished since the season-opening loss they suffered against the Colorado Buffalos. That remained their lone defeat until Sunday afternoon, as the Auburn Tigers, who were 0-3 in SEC play entering yesterday's bout, shocked LSU 67-62 in Auburn Arena.
The other SEC team who came into Sunday afternoon undefeated in conference play, the Tennessee Volunteers, lost to a much-improved Texas A&M squad 71-56 in College Station. Due to all the results mentioned above, South Carolina is now the lone unbeaten left both in the conference and in the entire sport as a whole, which is indicative of how much parity now exists in women's college basketball.
The Gamecocks will look to maintain their undefeated mark later tonight when they take on the Kentucky Wildcats in the Colonial Life Arena.
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