University of South Carolina basketball player Damontre Harris has requested permission to contact other NCAA schools in the hopes of transferring prior to the start of the 2012-13 season.
Harris is the second USC player in the last two weeks to make such a request. Earlier this month, freshman guard Anthony Gill – a 6-foot-8, Charlotte, [...]
Another Gamecock Gone
South Carolina Makes Men’s Basketball Coaching Change
Horn Posted 60-63 Record in Four Seasons at South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (March 13, 2012) – University of South Carolina Athletics Director Eric Hyman announced today that men’s basketball coach Darrin Horn has been released from his duties after four seasons as head coach. Carolina finished the 2011-12 season with a 10-21 record and finished last [...]
Marshall, Capel Favorites For USC Job
Wichita State basketball coach Gregg Marshall – a native of Greenwood, S.C. – and former Duke University star Jeff Capel are among the names being floated as possible candidates to replace University of South Carolina head basketball coach Darrin Horn, who was fired this week.
Marshall, 49, has posted a 109-59 record in five seasons with [...]
Darren Horn Fired
The University of South Carolina has fired head basketball coach Darrin Horn after an abysmal 10-21 season – his third straight losing mark since taking over Gamecock hoops program in 2008.
USC athletics director Eric Hyman made the announcement at a press conference Tuesday afternoon and discuss the status of the program (such as it is).
“This [...]
Bruce Ellington Gives Up … Football?
University of South Carolina two-sport star Bruce Ellington will give up football to focus exclusively on basketball.
Wait … what?
Didn’t we get that backward?
The Gamecock football team is a Top Ten squad that won 11 games in thirteen tries. The Gamecock hoops squad, on the other hand, finished dead last in the Southeastern Conference – winning [...]
Mercifully Over … Almost
We don’t know what was worse about the 2011-12 season of University of South Carolina Gamecock basketball … the fact that the team sucked (again), the fact that attendance was atrocious or the fact that the USC athletics department attempted to fudge fan support.
Maybe it was a little of everything …
Anyway, USC head coach Darrin [...]
Rupp Arena?
When it isn’t drawing crowds that barely crack four figures, the University of South Carolina is busy turning its cavernous Colonial Life Arena into a the equivalent of a home court for ranked opponents.
You know … programs which enjoy (imagine this) a national fan base.
Wait … you’ve been trusting the University of South Carolina’s official [...]
Awww Buck It
Even without its All-American superstar, No. 2 Ohio State was still too much for the University of South Carolina’s struggling men’s basketball team on Saturday.
While star power forward Jared Sullinger rode the pine with a bruised left foot, the Buckeyes (11-2, 0-0 Big Ten) got a career-high 30 points from sophomore forward Deshaun Thomas to [...]
USC: More Hoops Number-Fudging
Officially, 7,003 fans attended the University of South Carolina’s 66-58 victory over Presbyterian College on Tuesday night.
How many actually attended, though? Barely 1,000, according to our sources.
In fact, here’s a picture from the game courtesy of Patrick Enzor, Online/ Multimedia Editor for The (Sumter, S.C.) Item.
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Pic: Twitter/ Patrick Enzor
What’s up with the discrepancy? [...]
Hoops Surprise: Gamecocks Down Tigers
It’s not exactly a job-saving performance, but embattled University of South Carolina head basketball coach Darrin Horn might have turned down the heat on his hot seat by a half degree.
Horn’s Gamecocks (3-5, 0-0 SEC) beat arch-rival Clemson 58-55 on the road Sunday night – an unexpected victory for a team that has dropped early [...]
Gamecock Basketball Fudging Attendance?
The University of South Carolina athletics department is artificially inflating attendance figures for its home basketball games, counting several thousand season ticket holders who do not necessarily attend the game into its final attendance totals.
For example, the University announced that more than 9,000 fans attended the Gamecocks 64-63 loss against Tennessee State two weeks ago [...]
Tar Heels Spank Gamecocks
As expected, the University of South Carolina men’s basketball team was blown out on Friday night by the University of North Carolina.
The No. 1 Tar Heels (5-0, 0-0 ACC) raced out to a 19-4 lead and never looked back – forcing 17 first half turnovers en route to an 87-62 “cock-stomping” of their neighbors to [...]
