FINAL: Gamecocks Spurn Falcons In Dominating 93-62 Win

South Carolina's women's basketball team heads into the winter break with a solid win over the Bowling Green Falcons.

Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks entered Tuesday night looking to finish things off with a bang before they head home for Christmas. Needless to say, the fans in Garnet and Black got themselves an early present, primarily in the form of offensive fireworks.

In the first half, South Carolina got off to a scorching hot start, particularly on the offensive end, as they hit each of their first ten shots and didn't have a recorded miss until the 3:24 mark in the first quarter. The biggest catalyst for this high-scoring outburst was both the team-oriented mindset of looking for the right shot, leading to nine assists for the Gamecocks and the hot hand of junior wing Bree Hall, who hit three 3-pointers in the aforementioned stretch.

While things did slow down for Carolina at the end of the first quarter and beginning of the second quarter, as Dawn Staley experimented with different lineups, the Gamecocks would undergo an offensive awakening in the final six minutes and sixteen seconds of the half. In that timespan, South Carolina would score 20 points, with the majority of those points coming in the paint area, as Kamilla Cardoso and the rest of the frontcourt were able to get better positioning due to Bowling Green not running as much of a zone defense.

In the second half, the Gamecocks continued to have their way on the offensive end, and did so by getting the ball down on the low block and taking advantage of their height and length advantage in one-on-one situations. Shooting 53.1 percent from the floor in the game's final 20 minutes, there was never really any doubt as to whether or not South Carolina was going to win.

One development that should be noted from this game is that Cardoso left the game at the 8:32 mark in the fourth quarter, after coming up limping from a layup attempt from behind the basket on the bottom baseline. The good news for Kamilla is that she'll have eleven days to recover before the Gamecocks next game against East Carolina on December 30th.

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