The Philadelphia Eagles‘ blowout win in Super Bowl LIX ended up being far from the most compelling sporting event to happen this past Sunday.
In a top-five women’s college basketball showdown earlier that afternoon, No. 4 Texas upset No. 2 South Carolina 66-62, marking the first time since December 2021 that South Carolina dropped a game in SEC regular-season play — in other words, two national championships ago for the Gamecocks. The matchup amassed over one million television viewers.
The win was a long time coming for Texas — it was coach Vic Schaefer’s first in 10 tries against top-five-ranked Dawn Staley squads — and avenged the Longhorns’ 17-point defeat to South Carolina in January. Big picture, the result strengthened Texas’ hold on a No. 1 seed for the NCAA tournament and made the SEC title race more interesting, as South Carolina, Texas and LSU all sit tied atop the conference standings at 10-1. Plus, it shook things…
