COLUMBIA — Moments after his team’s biggest home victory of a breakthrough season, South Carolina men’s basketball coach Frank Martin took a seat in the media room and got something off his chest.
“You have two teams that are that good, first- and second-place in the league, and neither team is ranked. That’s the frustrating part, how neither one of those two teams is ranked nationally. It makes no sense,” Martin said in his opening comments Wednesday after the Gamecocks beat LSU in a game for first place in the SEC.
“In what other (power-five) league in the country is the first-place team playing the second-place team, and neither team is ranked?