Final Road Trip Thursday for Women's Hoops
#1/1 SOUTH CAROLINA (27-1) AT. FLORIDA (15-12)
6 P.M. | GAINESVILLE, FLA. | EXACTECH ARENA (10,151)
South Carolina Game Notes | WATCH: SEC Network+ | Radio: 107.5 The Game/1320 AM | Live Stats
ABOUT THIS GAME
- The Gamecocks are looking for their 12th-straight win over Florida, which would even the series as the Gators hold a 20-19 advantage entering the game.
- A win tonight would stretch the Gamecocks’ win streak to 22, which would tie to the 2015-16 team for the longest in program history.
- Mikiah Herbert Harrigan needs one block to become just the third Gamecock all-time to record 200 career blocks.
- Tyasha Harris is seven assists away from joining the SEC’s all-time top 10 in career assists.
GAMECOCK NOTABLES
- South Carolina’s offense has been explosive, ranking eighth in the country at 81.9 points per game, and versatile with eight Gamecocks leading or tying for the team lead in scoring at least once this season. While the foundation is built on points in the paint, where South Carolina out-scores opponents 41.4 to 24.6 points per game, the Gamecocks can win from outside shooting as well as they are 17-0 when hitting at least five 3s in a game and 10-1 when scoring fewer than five.
- The Gamecock defense has been reliably stalwart throughout the season. Just seven games have seen an opponent score 60 or more points, and only two teams have scored more points than their season average entering the game.
- Averaging a double-double vs. the SEC and ranked teams, Aliyah Boston is having one of the best freshman seasons in program history as she is ahead of the pace marked by the program’s last two SEC Freshman of the Year winners – Alaina Coates (2014) and A’ja Wilson (2015). Boston’s six double-doubles in SEC games and 11 on the season are both program freshman records. Her 12.9 points per game are just below Wilson’s 13.1. Her rebounding average (9.1), blocks per game (2.8) and field goal percentage (.616) are all better than Coates and Wilson in their freshman seasons.
- Junior guard LeLe Grissett has used her experience to be a spark off the bench in the waning weeks of the regular season. Over the last four games, she has poured in 9.8 points on 77.3 percent shooting (17-of-22) and seven of her 12 rebounds came on the offensive end.
- Senior Mikiah Herbert Harrigan has been locked in on rebounding in February, averaging 6.8 rebounds per game this month, including four games against ranked opponents, after closing January with a 5.3 rebound average.
BY THE NUMBERS
4 Zia Cooke’s four 20-point games against SEC opponents are more than any other Gamecock freshman all-time.
10 South Carolina has 10 wins against nationally ranked opponents this season, more than any other team in the country.
+11.8 The Gamecocks have out-scored their opponents in the first quarter by an average of 11.8 points this season (12.6 points in SEC games).
12 South Carolina’s guards have matched or out-scored its forwards in the paint 12 times this season.
23.6 In her 20th season as a head coach, Dawn Staley averages 23.6 wins per season. That average rises to 25.0 in her 12 seasons at South Carolina.
31.8 South Carolina’s bench has accounted for 31.8 percent of its total offense vs. SEC teams – 26.6 points per game. Four Gamecocks average at least 5.0 off the bench.
