Feb. 4, 2007
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:: No. 7 LSU held off <?xml:namespace prefix=”st1″ ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags”?>South Carolina to claim a 49-46 win over the Gamecocks Sunday. LSU claimed its 10th straight win over South Carolina in a streak that dates back to a 76-61 Gamecock triumph in 1998. The Tigers have won eight of the nine meetings between the two schools played in Columbia.
:: South Carolina held the Tigers to a season-low 49 points. Prior to Sunday’s game, LSU’s lowest single-game scoring output was 51 points scored last game against Georgia.
:: Sunday’s game marked the second time this season that South Carolina lost to a top-15 opponent by less than five points, as Carolina suffered a 67-66 defeat at the hands of No. 14 Vanderbilt on Jan.11.
:: Senior guard Lauren Simms became the 26th member of South Carolina’s 1,000-point club during Sunday’s game, scoring her 1,000th career point on a baseline jumper at the 7:36 mark of the second half. She entered the contest with 993 career points.
:: A Demetress Adams score at the buzzer sent South Carolina into the locker room trailing by a 28-25 margin. Including Sunday’s game, the Gamecocks are 1-8 when trailing at the half.
:: Melanie Johnson scored 11 points Sunday, marking her ninth double-figure scoring game of the year and the 33rd double-figure scoring game of her career. Johnson has reached double figures in three of her last four games.
:: LSU center Sylvia Fowles achieved a double-double with seven minutes and 34 seconds remaining in the first half. She had 12 points and 10 rebounds at that point and finished with 23 points and 20 rebounds.
:: Fowles scored 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field in the first half, but when her totals are excluded, the rest of her teammates combined to score only 10 points on 2-of-21 shooting from the field (.095 pct) in the opening stanza.
:: Fowles’ 20 rebounds Sunday were the most for any South Carolina opponent this year and set a new Colonial Center record. Fowles became the first Carolina opponent to grab 20 rebounds since Georgia’s Janet Harris collected an opponent-record 23 boards against the Gamecocks in 1982.
:: LSU came into Sunday’s game leading the nation in both scoring defense (46.9 ppg) and field goal percentage defense (.309 pct.) The Gamecocks, meanwhile ranked among the top 10 teams nationally in rebounding margin (8th; +10.3), steals (9th; 12.7 per game) and blocked shots (9th; 5.8 per game).
:: No. 7 LSU was the fourth top-10 team South Carolina has faced this season, as the Gamecocks have already gone toe-to-toe with then-No. 3 Oklahoma, then-No. 10 Stanford and then-No. 3 Tennessee.
:: South Carolina’s last win over a ranked opponent was a 79-61 victory over No. 16 Minnesota at the Colonial Center last year.
:: The Gamecocks return to action when they travel to Fayetteville to face Arkansas at 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.
