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GAMECOCK
ATHLETICS
FINAL HOME B'BALL GAMES
Womens' Basketball vs. Wofford
Tonight, 7:03 p.m.
Frank McGuire Arena
' Men's Basketball vs. Vanderbilt
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Carolina has been on the road
enough lately to make Willie Nelson
proud. Road trips to Georgia and
Cincinnati, a late game at home against
Arkansas, then two trips in 40 hours
to The Citadel and Tennessee will
wear out even the toughest teams.
"Today's game was a test of our
endurance to some degree," Head
Coach Eddie Fogler said. "This was
our third game this week. We really
have been on the go here. But
yesterday, I could really tell that we
were ready to play."
Also take into account that on
Friday the Gamecocks team charter
was grounded due to mechanical failure.
They had to fly three separate small
i private planes to the game.
"We got a call that our USAir
charter was being grounded," Fogler
said. "Of all of the charters to get
grounded, this was the toughest, most
important trip that we have a charter.
We had to come in last night for
practice, because the shoot around
would have been 7 a.m. if we wanted
to get onto this court.
"Due to some tremendous
individuals in Columbia, we were able
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the game. The weather was bad, and
on my plane the co-pilot had to give
out the bags because it was going to
be a bumpy ride.""
The Gamecocks had no problems
getting off the ground in the first half
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of the game before 13,514 at the
Thompson-Boling Arena Saturday.
Junior Ryan Stack scored the first
points for the Gamecocks with a layup
to tie the game early at two.
Then sophomore BJ McKie nailed
a driving lay-up and got the foul shot
at 17:11 left in the first half to take a
5-2 lead in the ball game. The
Gamecocks never fell behind the rest
of the game.
The Gamecocks used a 17-2 run in
the first six minutes of the game to
take a 17-4 lead when junior point
guard Melvin Watson hit a three-point
shot.
"They are a very tough team to play
from behind," Fogler said. "It is very
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The Vols did not die as freshman
reserve Vegas Davis came off the bench
to provide four quick points, getting
the Vols within six points at 17-11.
Davis continued to carry the load until
the 5:20 mark in the first half when
he nailed a three-point shot to make
the score 25-18.
The Gamecocks held the lead behind
the sharp shooting of Larry Davis who
broke the 1,000 point mark for his
career in just his second year of playing
for the Gamecocks. The senior transfer
from North Carolina is just the third
Carolina player all-time to reach the
1,000 point mark in his second season.
The two previous were Gamecocks
greats John Roach and Grady Wallace.
Tennessee would continue to light
up the nets behind the play of
sophomore guard Brandon Wharton.
Wharton nailed his sixth and ninth
points on consecutive Vol possessions
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to make the score 31-28.
BJ McKie opened up a little
breathing room for the Gamecocks
with 1:06 left in the half when he hit
a three-point play to give the team a
35-28 advantage.
SEC Freshman of the Year
candidate Charles Hathaway ended
the first half by scoring a dunk to
tighten the score at 35-30.
The Gamecocks, after holding as
much as a 13-point lead in the first
half, saw their lead shrink to five at
the half.
But the Vols came out in the second
half as cold as a Whalers Mill shower.
It took them five minutes to score a
field goal.
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the lead reached 45-20 on sophomore
William Gallman's dunk with 15:35
left in the game.
The lead stayed at 12 points for
most of the second half until Davis hit
a three-point shot and was fouled with
7:50 left in the game. He hit the foul
shot to give the Gamecocks a 59-44
advantage.
When the lead reached 15, the
Gamecocks started to slow down the
offense to minimize the number of Vol
possessions.
"If we lose the game, then they say
Whoa coach you really slowed that
one down too soon,'" Fogler said. "When
you look at how well they play, and
how good they are defensively, it's
hard to get shots.
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odds were greatly in our favor to win
with what we did."
Wharton hit a couple of big threepointers
late in the game, but the
outcome was inevitable as the
Gamecocks pulled away with a 69-58
victory, moving their record to 21-6
overall and 13-1 in the SEC.
The Gamecocks shot 47 percent for
the game including 47.1 percent from
three-point range. The Gamecocks
were outrebounded 37-27 by the Vols
and were outscpred 9-1 on second
chance points.
That can be attributed to junior
Ryan Stack getting into foul trouble
early and never getting going in the
game.
It appeared late in the afternoon
that Kentucky would lose to-Vanderbilt
to give the Gamecocks a two-game
lead in the SEC. But the Wildcats
overcame a 22-point deficit to win the
game 82-79.
The Gamecocks now hold a one
game lead over the Wildcats with a
home game against Vanderbilt
Wednesday and a game at Kentucky
next Sunday in a nationally televised
game.
The Wildcats have a game at
Tennessee on Tuesday night and on
Sunday against the Gamecocks.
"We are obviously in the NCAA
Tournament at this point" Fogler said.
"We still have a chance to win a
championship in this conference. We
have an important game Wednesday <
night against Vanderbilt, who is playing ]
real well at this point." 1
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