South Carolina is trying to stay with Texas atop the SEC standings. Kentucky is eager to finish in the top four and earn “double bye” status for the conference tournament. While the first-ranked Longhorns play the Florida Gators on Sunday, the defending champion Gamecocks will be home favorites against the No. 15 Wildcats.
How to watch No. 15 Kentucky at No. 6 South Carolina
Dawn Staley’s reigning champs went 10 weeks without losing a game, then took two high-profile Ls in February. Falling 4 points short at Texas is understandable, if dispiriting, but the home blowout administered by UConn was very strange. South Carolina has since responded with three comfortable wins. It beat Ole Miss by 16 on Thursday night; junior Chloe Kitts dropped a clean, efficient triple-double and added four steals. She was really diming in Oxford:
PRETTTTYYY RAY!!
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— South Carolina Women’s Basketball (@GamecockWBB) February 28, 2025
South Carolina has the toughest strength of schedule in Division I, and Basketball Reference has the Gamecocks No. 1 in their simple rating system (SRS). SEC opponents are shooting a nose-holding 34 percent from the floor, and South Carolina is cruising in turnover and free throw differentials. Freshman phenom Joyce Edwards…
