Well, the winning streak is gone.
South Carolina sputtered early, but they shot the ball extraordinarily well in the second half. We couldn’t slow their offensive output, and their 49 second-half points erased a promising first half by the good guys.
We had a full complement of players for basically the first time this month, and it showed. We looked great early. We jumped out to leads of 10-4, 24-12, and 34-21; but the early kill shot was tantalizingly out of reach. With South Carolina reeling, we never seemed to slam the door shut, and a questionable switch to a passive zone left the door open for the Gamecocks to shoot their way back into this game.