By Rixon Lane || Gamecock basketball fans, step away from the ledge.
Yes, this week’s shellacking on the road against No. 4 Florida was a soul-crushing massacre that likely sent even the most optimistic USC supporters into the fetal position. However, Gamecock fans need to take a deep breath and think about South Carolina’s basketball season [...]
Rixon Lane: Gamecock Hoops Making Progress Under Frank Martin
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 [...]
Fagen: Sorry State Of USC Hoops
By Walter Fagen || The University of South Carolina men’s basketball team has come under attack from virtually everyone paying attention to heac coach Darrin Horn’s program – which judging by the attendance at USC home games is virtually no one. Nonetheless a 9-15 record – including a single win in 10 tries against SEC [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Good Show, Watson!
Former University of South Carolina point guard Melvin Watson was formally inducted into the University of South Carolina athletics hall of fame on Friday, the school’s athletics department announced.
The Gamecocks’ career assists leader, Watson joined BJ McKie and Larry Davis as part of one of the most feared back courts the Southeastern Conference has ever [...]
Gamecock Basketball Implosion
After closing out the 2010-11 season with eleven losses in thirteen games, it was hard to imagine University of South Carolina head basketball coach Darrin Horn‘s hot seat getting any warmer … but that’s exactly what has happened.
Last week, Horn’s program lost three players – including rising junior guard Ramon Galloway (the team’s third-leading scorer). [...]
Darrin Horn’s Hot Seat
While University of South Carolina fans celebrate a pair of key early season victories on the baseball diamond, the 2010-11 basketball season is drawing to an ignominious end.
Only 10,137 fans (officially) showed up for USC’s home finale against Tennessee last week, which ended up as yet another in a string of late-season losses that has [...]
Opposite Directions
The University of South Carolina baseball team opened its 2011 season – and its defense of the school’s first-ever College World Series championship – with a sweep of the visiting Santa Clara Broncos this weekend. Not only that, the Gamecocks drew an impressive 23,800 fans to the three-game series – which equates to an average [...]
Big Win For Horn
With University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier officially off of the hot seat following a nine-win 2010 season, our focus now turns to the school’s basketball program – led by third-year head coach Darrin Horn.
After winning 21 games (and sharing the SEC Eastern Division championship) in his inaugural season two years ago, [...]
Cocks Rebound, Tigers Upset
After a heartbreaking four-point road loss to Florida earlier this week, South Carolina’s surprisingly competitive basketball team got back on track yesterday with a 79-68 win over an outmatched Georgia squad.
The win moved the Gamecocks to 17-5 on the year and put them squarely in the hunt for an NCAA Tournament bid in head coach [...]
