The Volunteers, the nation’s No. 1 scoring offense, learned the hard way just how dominant South Carolina’s defense has been. Tennessee was held to new season lows in shooting percentage (30.7%), 3-point percentage (11.5%) and field goals made (23) in the game.
South Carolina’s struggles to close out games continued in heartbreaking fashion Saturday, falling 65-60 to No. 14 Mississippi State despite forcing overtime. It’s the Gamecocks’ fifth loss in crunch time this season, fourth in SEC play.
Mississippi State needed overtime to get there, but the 14th-ranked Bulldogs held off South Carolina for a 65-60 road victory.
A pair of SEC squads ranked in the top 15 face off for their first of two regular season meetings on Wednesday, Jan. 29 when the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide visit the No. 14 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Miss.
ESPN believes the Alabama-Mississippi State game could come down to the wire on Wednesday night in Starkville.
Josh Hubbard’s two foul shots with 56.5 seconds left in overtime rescued No. 14 Mississippi State for a 65-60 victory over South Carolina after blowing a 14-point lead in the last nine minutes of regulation.
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The University of South Carolina is rewarding Shane Beamer after the Gamecocks’ recent success. On Friday, the South Carolina Board of Trustees approved a contract extension for the Gamecocks’ head football coach that will run through the end 2030 and pay him $8.15 million in 2025 with $100,000 raises in each season that follows.
Shane Beamer spoke to the media during halftime of the South Carolina men’s basketball team’s game against Mississippi State on Saturday. Here’s everything he had to say. [Join GamecockCentral: $1 for 7 days] On Beamer’s contract extension “(I’m) extremely fortunate,
Riley Kugel scored 15 points and Keyshawn Murphy had 13 as No. 14 Mississippi State held off South Carolina 65-60 in overtime on Saturday afternoon in Columbia, S.C.