For the primary time since 2021, the South Carolina Gamecocks girls’s basketball group has misplaced a regular-season sport in opposition to a convention opponent.
The Gamecocks fell to No. 4 Texas, 66-62 in a hard-fought top-five matchup.
The loss for South Carolina was simply its second of the season and first since its sixth sport of the season in opposition to No. 1 UCLA.
With the win, Texas now sits atop the SEC standings and holds the tiebreaker over the Gamecocks.
Madison Booker was excellent for the Longhorns, ending with 20 factors and 11 rebounds, good for her fifth double-double of the season and third within the final 5 video games.
Kyla Oldacre (13 factors) and Taylor Jones (11 factors) had been additionally in double figures.
The Gamecocks struggled large time within the scoring division, as they’d only one participant in double digits.
It is 62 factors tied for a season low for South Carolina and the identical variety of factors it scored within the early season loss to UCLA.
MiLaysia Fulwiley was the beforehand talked about lone South Carolina participant in double figures with 13 factors.
Joyce Edwards (9 factors) and Chloe Kitts (9 factors) had been near double digits however couldn’t fairly get there.
South Carolina will return to Columbia for 3 straight residence video games, together with internet hosting No. 6 UConn subsequent Sunday.
Texas will proceed its stretch of ranked matchups, as they play each No. 11 Kentucky and No. 6 LSU subsequent week.
