For the third straight season and ninth time in program historical past, the South Carolina Gamecocks have gained the ladies’s SEC basketball championship.
The Gamecocks knocked off No. 1 Texas 64-45 and all however secured a No. 1 seed within the ladies’s NCAA Match.
South Carolina by no means trailed within the win, because the Gamecocks avenged an earlier season loss to the Longhorns.
Texas turned the ball over 18 instances and South Carolina was in a position to rating 9 factors off of these turnovers.
Chloe Kitts led the Gamecocks with 15 factors and 9 rebounds. Kitts was named the match MVP.
Tessa Johnson (14 factors, 2-of-3 3PT), Sania Feagin (11 factors) and Joyce Edwards (11 factors) had been all in double figures for South Carolina.
MiLaysia Fulwiley scored simply 5 factors but in addition added three rebounds, two assists and two steals, an all-around good sport for the spark plug of the Gamecocks.
For Texas, the struggles of Madison Booker confirmed up once more in a loss to the Gamecocks. In Texas’s two losses to South Carolina this season, Booker scored simply 17 factors on 7-of-32 taking pictures.
Taylor Jones and Rori Harmon every scored 14 for the Longhorns. Jones led the crew in blocks with three and Harmon led them in assists with three. No different Texas participant scored greater than two factors.
Each groups will now await Choice Sunday to see who they may match up in opposition to within the first spherical of the ladies’s NCAA Match.
