South Carolina will host Radford on Sunday afternoon in Columbia after posting an emotional competition win.
The Gamecocks (8-3) disillusioned in-state rival No. 25 Clemson 91-88 in additional time on Tuesday. Main scorer Collin Murray-Boyles racked up 15 of his 22 issues in the second one part for South Carolina, which has received 5 consecutive video games and 6 in a row at house.
Myles Stute scored a season-high 19 issues on 5 3-pointers towards Clemson. Remaining season, he averaged 8.3 issues in step with recreation because the Gamecocks tied a faculty report with 26 wins and went to the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2017.
Whilst he is off to a gradual get started this season — Stute is taking pictures 34.6 p.c from 3-point vary (18 of 52) and is averaging 6.1 issues in step with recreation, each under closing season’s numbers — he nonetheless has the boldness of Gamecocks trainer Lamont Paris.
“He is a employee that has a procedure,” Paris mentioned. “He does not have that procedure as a result of he is taking pictures the ball smartly or poorly. He shoots it smartly as a result of he has that procedure. He is a certified in the case of the way in which he approaches the paintings. There is no loss of trust, there may be been a loss of efficiency to a point to his usual, however no loss of trust on his finish or on mine. I imagine when he we could it move it will have to move in more often than not.”
The Highlanders (10-4) posted a season-high level overall once they pounded Department III Virginia-Lynchburg 122-63 in a house recreation on Friday.
Jarvis Moss and Jonas Sirtautas each and every scored 19 issues to steer the Highlanders. Chace Davis, Xavier Foster and Fact Harris got here off the bench so as to add 12 issues apiece.
It is been a breakout season for Moss, who leads Radford in scoring with a median of 15.7 issues in step with recreation. The senior transferred from Davidson, the place he performed in 17 video games and scored 18 issues in 2023-24.
The Gamecocks are the fourth group from an influence convention on Radford’s non-conference agenda and the closing likelihood to fine-tune issues sooner than Large South play starts for the Highlanders on Jan. 2.
“We’ve got had a brutal non-conference agenda,” trainer Darris Nichols mentioned. “Yearly we’re going to problem ourselves. We went out west, got here again house and also have a handy guide a rough turnaround to South Carolina.”
— Box Stage Media
