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What Lamont Paris said after South Carolina's 35-point loss to Mississippi State
Following an 85-50 loss to No. 17 Mississippi State, South Carolina head coach Lamont Paris spoke to the media who made the trip to Starkville after the game. Below is a summary of what he had to say.
— Mississippi State did a lot of things well, South Carolina didn’t do many things well at all. They played poorly in a lot of ways today.
— Sometimes it’s like that. This was the first SEC game for a couple guys on the team that play heavy minutes. But they also have a lot of experienced guys who didn’t play great. MSU played great. You’re going to get a wide spread when things like this happen.
— Looked at their game last year at Mississippi State, and the SEC opener at home against them last year. South Carolina played atrocious but went into halftime with a lead because they defended on a consistent basis. This year, they’re still learning how to do that. Not sure why it was a bad start today. They just didn’t have it.
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— Would agree that the team wasn’t physical or aggressive today. You just do it to fix that problem. By nature, Mississippi State is a more aggressive group of individuals. Needed to match that aggressiveness with resistance, which they didn’t today. To dig deeper defensively, that takes some real maturity. That was one area he didn’t think they answered the bell. They didn’t compete that way.
— Wouldn’t surprise him if they went 2-for-19 from three or if they didn’t adjust to some of the unique things MSU does as a defensive unit. But not fighting, that did surprise him. It doesn’t anger him. It just surprises him.
— Been in a lot of games over his coaching career. He’s seen that a lot where teams have struggled in games. Always optimistic about how his team will respond. But at some point in the second half, he felt some disconnect that the light wasn’t coming on, which is a dangerous game to play.
— With the slow starts, there’s been a variety of ways in which they’ve struggled to score. Sometimes it’s just missing shots that don’t fall your way. The case today was struggling to pass the ball to the guys in the same colored uniforms. It just seems like things are connected in terms of one guy struggling which leads to another struggling as well.
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— It’s hard to throw a guy out there who hasn’t played a lot of minutes (in reference to being asked about Arden Conyers). It’s hard to inject a person into a scenario when they haven’t been in this scenario much before. Some of Cam Scott’s minutes looked like that to some degree with struggles. That’s hard to go to a guy like Conyers who hasn’t been in those spots yet.
— His urgency is the same for every single game. Every single game. It’s an 18-hole, 18-game story. At some point, you’ll look back and say this is what you did or this is not what you did. For him, there’s not one bit more urgency. This is a good team. They are as motivated to be 1-1 in the conference as they would be if they were 1-0 after today. They are very urgent in everything they do.
New details have emerged in an officer-involved shooting that left one dead and a deputy injured in Anderson County on Monday.
A deputy with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) initiated a traffic stop outside of Townville, SC, on I-85 Northbound near Mile Marker 11 for a traffic violation, according to a release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
The deputy requested back-up and spoke to 32-year-old Austin Derrell Robertson, of Pennsylvania, in his patrol vehicle. Once the other deputy arrived, Robertson got out of the vehicle and “a physical altercation involving him and the two deputies” occured, according to SLED.
SC deputy critically injured after shooting during traffic stop, suspect killed
While deputies attempted to tase Robertson, officials said he grabbed a firearm from his vehicle and shot one of the deputies.
Both deputies then shot back at Roberston, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
SLED said the deputy was airlifted to the hospital and remains there for treatment at this time.
The incident remains under investigation by SLED, as requested by the ACSO.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has been nominated for a position in foreign diplomacy.
The White House on Tuesday listed Bauer as a nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Belize, a Central American country bordering Guatemala.
It’s unclear when a confirmation hearing will take place. WIS has reached out to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee for more information.
Bauer was South Carolina’s lieutenant governor from 2003-2011, serving under then-Gov. Mark Sanford. Before that, he served terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and the South Carolina Senate.
More recently, Bauer entered the race for U.S. Senate in July 2025, looking to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary. He ended his campaign the following month.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Six Republican candidates vying to become South Carolina’s next governor met in downtown Charleston for a wide-ranging debate that put abortion, infrastructure and the future of data centers at the center of the race.
The forum was held at the Sottile Theatre, where Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, Lowcountry businessman Rom Reddy and Attorney General Alan Wilson took the stage.
Questions included whether they would support a state hate crime law, how they would address concerns about growth and infrastructure, how to navigate collaboration, abortion and the future of data centers in the state.
One issue that drew near-unanimous opposition was state Senate Bill 1095, a proposed total abortion ban that passed out of committee earlier in the day. All of the candidates opposed the bill, but they differed on what they would do if it reached the governor’s desk.
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Norman said he would sign it.
“You know, this is an emotional issue, but I will tell you if this bill came to my desk as governor. If it passed the House and the Senate, I would sign it,” Norman said.
All of the other candidates on stage said they would veto the bill if it came across their desk as governor, with Reddy arguing the question should be decided by voters.
“The Supreme Court did not say the loudest voice in the ruling class prevails. It said it’s up to the people in the state, so let’s put it to a referendum,” Reddy said.
On infrastructure, candidates discussed reforming the South Carolina Department of Transportation and allowing private-sector involvement to help pay for improvements.
Wilson outlined ideas that included leasing interstate easements and expanding private express lanes.
“We privatized that grass between the interstates. We turn it into private express lanes that can be told we leased the easements on the sides of interstates to telecommunication companies and energy companies, and charge them for natural gas line and fiber optic fiber optic cables,” Wilson said.
Evette also pointed to public-private partnerships and the possibility of fast-pass lanes.
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“We want to make sure that we’re innovative public private partnerships coming in and creating fast pass lanes to allow people that are in a hurry to be able to utilize that,” Evette said.
The final question focused on data centers, with candidates agreeing corporations should “pay their way.”
“They should pay for their water. They should pay for their infrastructure, any roads around it, and we should look at what Governor Ron DeSantis has done in Florida with the large data centers that are coming to Florida. That should be the model in South Carolina and everywhere,” Mace said.
Kimbrell said the state should set limits to protect natural resources and guard against higher power costs for residents.
“Put parameters around data centers to ensure that the water consumption does not impact places like the ACE Basin,” Kimbrell said. “Ensuring that the Public Service Commission makes absolutely sure nobody’s power rate goes up and we try to get behind the meter energy grids in place so they can be self-sufficient.”
Two more debates are planned ahead of the primaries on June 9.
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