No. 15/20 Gamecocks Remain Home, Host Vanderbilt Saturday

COLUMBIA, S.C. – No. 15/20 South Carolina (20-3, 8-2 SEC) remains at home on Saturday as Vanderbilt (6-16, 1-8 SEC) comes to town. Tip-off is slated for 1 p.m. (ET) at Colonial Life Arena with doors opening 1 hour prior.

Richard Cross (pxp) and Pat Bradley (analyst) will be on the call for the SEC Network broadcast.

Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable items for a collection drive in partnership with University of South Carolina First Lady Ero Aggelopoulou-Amiridis, the University of South Carolina Board of Visitors and the Gamecock CommUnity Shop.

The Gamecock CommUnity Shop is an on-campus resource which provides free food, toiletries, school supplies, and professional clothing to USC students, faculty, and staff to help meet basic needs. Bags of rice, canned meat, peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti sauce, canned fruit and vegetables, granola bars, fruit snacks and trail mix are some of the items fans are encouraged to bring. Fans can also donate through the Pantry’s Amazon Wish List.

Volunteers will be located at all venue entrances to collect goods.

Tomorrow is also the team’s Fight 4 Literacy game. Coaches and staff will be wearing green pins and wristbands in support of Champions For Literacy, a non-profit that uses the power of sports to impact childhood reading. For more information, click here.

The Gamecocks are seeking the team’s seventh straight SEC victory, the longest active win streak in the league currently and the program’s longest SEC win streak since starting the 1996-97 season 11-0 in conference games. Carolina is 12-1 at home this season.

VENUE: Colonial Life Arena

BROADCAST: SEC Network

PLAY-BY-PLAY: Richard Cross

ANALYST: Pat Bradley

RADIO: Gamecock Radio Network  

IN COLUMBIA: 107.5 The Game

  PLAY-BY-PLAY: Derek Scott

  ANALYST: Casey Manning

SIRIUSXM: 160 or 190 | SXM APP: 961

WATCH: espn.com/watch

LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast

SERIES: Dores lead, 34-31

IN COLUMBIA: Gamecocks lead, 18-13

SERIES TREND: Gamecocks have won five of last six at CLA dating back to 65-69 win on Feb. 13, 2014.

LAST MEETING: 75-64 Dores win in Columbia on Feb. 14, 2023, which snapped at 5-game losing streak at CLA.   

UP NEXT

The Gamecocks head west to the plains of No. 12/11 Auburn (19-4, 8-2 SEC) in a top-25 battle of teams tied atop the SEC standings currently. Kevin Fitzgerald (pxp) and Jon Sundvold (analyst) will be on the call for the 8:30 p.m. (ET) SEC Network broadcast.

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