Women’s Hoops at ‘Bama Sunday

COLUMBIA, S.C. – No. 1/1 South Carolina girls’s basketball goes again on the highway this weekend, heading to Alabama for a 1 p.m. ET tipoff with the Crimson Tide on ESPN2.

The Alabama Collection
South Carolina leads the general collection 30-15 and has gained the final 20 conferences, together with the final eight performed in Tuscaloosa. 

The newest assembly was an 83-51 choice on Feb. 3, 2022, in Columbia, the place the Gamecocks dominated the primary two quarters to take a 53-24 lead into halftime.

By the Numbers

2 – South Carolina is one in all two groups to rank among the many nation’s prime 10 in scoring offense (eighth, 82.9) and scoring protection (1st, 45.7).

23.7 – The Gamecocks have blocked 23.7 % of opponents’ 2-point subject aim makes an attempt, in line with Her Hoop Stats.

51.1 – South Carolina leads the SEC in  offensive rebounding share in league play, corralling 51.1 % of its personal misses.

Highway Prepared
The Gamecocks are 294-260 (.531) all-time in highway video games, together with a 119-46 mark (.721) underneath head coach Daybreak Staley.  Her .721 profitable share on the highway is the very best in program historical past. In SEC highway video games, Gamecocks are 82-33 (.713) throughout Staley’s tenure.

This season, South Carolina’s 8-0 highway report is the second-best within the nation with its eight highway wins coming in third.

Rebounding Roundup
South Carolina is routinely among the many prime rebounding groups within the nation and has not dropped off this season. 

The Gamecocks rank among the many nation’s prime two in rebounding margin (1st, +22.6), rebounding common (2nd, 51.1) and offensive rebounds (2nd, 18.4. South Carolina is securing 50.2 % of its personal missed pictures, which is leads the nation and has delivered 20.1 second-chance factors per sport.

South Carolina has been out-rebounded simply as soon as this season (41-47 at #2/2 Stanford, Nov. 20) and solely 4 different video games have had a single-digit rebounding margin. The Gamecocks’ 74 rebounds in opposition to Arkansas have been a program report for SEC video games, and their +57 rebounding margin (74-17) was a program report. 

Aliyah Boston (9.7, 2nd in SEC, thirty first in NCAA) and Kamilla Cardoso (8.4, 4th in SEC) lead the rebounding effort and, are two of the highest three offensive rebounders within the SEC as properly – 3.5 and three.8 per sport, respectively, with Cardoso rating sixteenth within the nation in that stat.