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Sports RFJil'
Pep Talk
By Tom Gatto
USC's well-k
women's ba:
There is a basketball team at
USC that people don't seem to
know or care about.
The Lady Gamecocks arc alive
and well and in first place in the
Metro Conference under head
coach Nancy Wilson. But no one
seems to bother going to the Coliseum
to root them on.
Attendance tor the season has
averaged just more than 500, and
the largest "crowd" for one
game was the 937 who decided to
grace the arena with their
presence last Monday when USC
played Clernson.
On Jan. 27, the Lady
uamecocKs played Louisville at
home in an important conference
game. The announced attendance
was 234. That figure probably included
the teams, the press and
the Coliseum workers. It would
have been stretching the truth to
say there were even 150 spectators
in the Coliseum that night.
That's pitiful, absolutely pitiful.
Why the apathy, folks?
This team plays good ball.
They have an All-America candidate
in forward Brantley
Southers, who is averaging more
than 20 points a game and is the
second highest scorer in USC
women's history. They boast the
school's all-time assist leader (for
men and women) in guard Mindy
Ballon. Center Sharon Gilmore is
second on the all-time rebounding
list lor Carolina women.
And with Monday night's victory
over Cincinnati, USC won its
sixth straight game.
Lven (hough their record is only
12-10 (8-1 in the Metro),
they've played six Top Twenty
teams this season and will face
defending national champion Old
Dominion tonight in Columbia.
That's a pretty good schedule,
better than the men's in terms of
quality opponents.
Also, the lady Gamecocks
finished first in the Metro's Nor
11idii uivisuiii msi season, incir
last losing season was 1980-81;
since then, they have compiled a
record of 97-52.
Despite these a c complishments,
people have been
Women defe;
CINCINNATI ? Martha
Parker and Sharon Gilmorc each
sco red 19 points and Brant Icy
Southers added 18 more as the
l ady Gamecocks whipped the
Lady Bearcats of Cincinnati
80-56 Monday night.
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:ept secret:
sketball team
disguised as empty scats at the
home games. Women's basketball
has remained a poor stepchild
here, and they've now been
around for 11 seasons.
Last week, a new Atlantic
Coast Conference attendance
record for a women's game was
set at Virginia. More than 11,000
people were at the game, in an
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9,000. The school got behind the
program and showed their loyalty.
That's real support, folks.
Granted, we're not going to get
that kind of crowd for any
basketball game (even the men's
game against Clemson wasn't a
sellout here), but for the amount
of talent that the women's squad
has on the floor and eiven their
winning background, we should
be able to get a few thousand in
the stands.
Maybe the women can't play
above the rim and produce the
earth-shattering slam dunks that
we expect from the men. Perhaps
they aren't as fast, or as strong,
or as big as the guys. But that
doesn't take away from their
athletic skills or their desire to
win.
The University of Texas
averages 5,000 people per
women's game. That's about as
manv as the IJSC mpn nttrart
and maybe the Lady Gamecocks
will never receive that kind of
support on a regular basis.
Still, there's no excuse to have
less than 1,000 people come to a
home game against your intrastate
rival, especially when a
lot of them were Clemson rooters
that traveled down to Columbia
for the game.
The record crowd at the Coliseum
for a women's game,
believe it or not, is 6,219, when
Carolina nlaved UCLA in 1981.
That seems to be an unrealistic
goal at the present time, given the
attitude of the fair-weather
"fans" here who don't think
good basketball is worth their
time. And that's pitiful.
Tom Gat to is a sports writer for
The Gamecock.
at Cincinnati
The victory was the sixth
straight for USC and upped their
overall record to 12-10. The Lady
Gamecocks lead the Metro Conference
with an 8-1 mark. Cincinnati
fell to 10-12 and 4-5 in the
conference
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Southern Mississippi put on a si
Frank McGuirc Arena Monday nigli
was an 89-82 loss for USC.
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cond half. Five USM players were ii
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"We played great basketball," L
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the country tonight."
USC head coach Bill Foster aj
USM all the credit. "They met evei
had tremendous shooting."
Junior point guard Michael Fost
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maining in the second half with
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