A year after a magical run to the Final Four, the South Carolina Gamecocks will not participate in postseason basketball, as they failed to make the cut for the 32-team NIT field.
Finishing just a shade above .500 at 17-16 and 7-11 in conference, South Carolina likely needed two wins in the SEC Tournament to bolster its case for the NIT. Even so, the Gamecocks were no doubt affected by the amount of regular-season champions that lost in their conference tournaments — those teams receive automatic bids to the NIT — as well as a few high-profile NCAA Tournament snubs (St.