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January 24, 2007

Game Notes

• Arkansas leads the overall series with South Carolina 11-7 and the series in Columbia is tied at four. Dave Odom is 3-0 in Columbia vs. Arkansas.

• Brandon Wallace moved to No. 3 on the career games played tonight (123) and Tre’ Kelley moved to No. 7 with 122 games played.

• The game against Arkansas was the first contest this season for USC against a team from the SEC West. This marks the first of four straight games for the Gamecocks against the SEC West. (Arkansas, Mississippi State, Auburn, Alabama). The SEC Western Division is 0-17 on the SEC road this year.

• Dominique Archie is in double figures for the 8^th time this season (and career). His two 3s tonight match his career high vs. Florida on Jan. 13. He has a career-high 3 assists.

• Tre’ Kelley moved to No. 5 on the career list for assists with 439, passing Barry Manning (1988-92, 437). He moved past Jo Jo English (139, 1989-92) with 140 career 3 pointers and is No. 4 on the career list.

• Kelley scored in double figure for the 15^th time this year and the 58^th time in his career. Kelley has 20+ points in 6 games this year.

• Bryce Sheldon scored in double figures for the 6^th time this season and the 8^th time in his career.

• Brandon Wallace has 10+ rebounds for the 7^th time this season. He has 8+ in 15 games this season. In the first 3 SEC games (UGA, UF, UK) he had 19 REB and he has 28 in the last 2 SEC games (UT, UA).

• Evka Baniulis has double figures for the second straight game in his career and matches his career-high of 10 PT (at UT). He tied his career-high of 6 REB (vs. UK)

• The 35-30 score at half was USC’s first half-time lead of the SEC season and the most first-half points USC has scored since they scored 39 vs. Jacksonville on Dec. 29.