How To Watch SEC Tournament, Quarterfinals: No. 5-Seed South Carolina Vs. No. 4-Seed Auburn
South Carolina's men's basketball team will be offered a rare opportunity when they take on the Auburn Tigers tomorrow afternoon.
There haven't been many times in the 2023-24 season where Lamont Paris and the South Carolina Gamecocks have been out looking for revenge against an upcoming opponent; the fact that's only happened once this Winter (with the Georgia Bulldogs) speaks to how great of a ride it's been for the Gamecocks in year two under Paris. On Friday afternoon, Carolina will have an opportunity for payback when they take on the Auburn Tigers, a team who thoroughly embarrassed them in their lone meeting in the regular season, defeating the Gamecocks by 40 points in Neville Arena.
A big reason the Tigers ran South Carolina out of the arena that night was the fact that they simply couldn't miss, shooting 61 percent from the floor, 60 percent from behind the arc and 89 percent at the free-throw line. After his team's convincing win over Arkansas on Thursday, Lamont conveyed that he thought Auburn had an outlier performance that night.
"I almost threw the film out just because it was, it was an anomaly in the way that they performed as shooters. I mean they had I think 9 made threes out of their [frontcourt], right? And they weren't just stare down threes that we saw," Paris recalled. "I don't think it was from lack of effort. I think they outplayed us. At their place, it may have been an uphill battle either way, but they outplayed us - You know hopefully we'll just play better, and to some degree, hopefully, they won't shoot the ball like that. That would be some real bad karma if they could do that twice in a row against us."
In games away from Neville Arena in SEC play, the Tigers shot 34.1 percent from behind the three-point line. The Gamecocks will have to do a better job of accounting for their individual assignments and not allowing forwards Johni Broome and Jaylin Williams to impact the game to a significant degree. If they can accomplish that, they'll have a chance to advance to the semifinals.
How To Watch: No. 5-Seed South Carolina Vs. No. 4-Seed Auburn
- Gameday: Friday, March 15th, 2024
- Venue: Bridgestone Arena (Nashville, TN)
- Game time: 3:30 PM ET | 2:30 PM CT or 30 minutes after the Tennessee-Mississippi State game concludes
- TV/Streaming: ESPN
- Radio: Gamecock Radio Network
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