No. 4 Florida vs. No. 7 South Carolina Prediction, Game Preview

One of the following teams will be playing on April 3: Gonzaga, Xavier, Wisconsin, Florida, South Carolina or Baylor. It will be an all-Southeastern Conference matchup with the teams having split two regular-season meetings.

They face Baylor, who beat No. 11 seed USC 82-78. “Different techniques. They switch a lot”. “You could feel it on the court, I’m pretty sure you could feel it in the stands, the momentum that they give for us to compete night in and night out. I think it could be a defensive battle and whoever can execute better has a good shot of winning”.

NOTES: Baylor and SC were meeting for the seventh time, with all games occurring since 2006.

Thornwell’s 3-pointer, his fourth to that point, and a jumper from Rakym Felder, pushed the Gamecocks’ lead to 63-41. Many of them even stayed to play college ball.

English added. “You get those guys by keeping them here in the South, but they see us as football schools and we lose guys right under our nose”. “We know each other well, so it’s going to be a grind it out game, probably down to the wire just like this one”. They are nasty – and that is meant in the best sense of the word. “Every time we got a catch, there was somebody right there”. Will we see more of the style of game that we saw when the Gators avenged their SEC foe with an 81-66 win that saw them sink nine threes and KeVaughn Allen outduel Sindarius Thornwell with 26 points?

Allen pulled himself out of a shooting slump during which he hit just 3-of-21 (14.3 percent) from the field and 1-of-13 (7.7 percent) in the first two games of the NCAA Tournament. He broke out with a career-high 35 points in the regional semifinal.

“It was just a matter of getting my feet set and staying in rhythm”, Davis said. “The first two games, it didn’t go well for me how I wanted it to go as far as shooting it”.

Three people on the two benches have appeared in an Elite Eight game.

Duane Notice of the South Carolina Gamecocks shoots the ball in the second half against the Baylor Bears during the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Gamecocks spent much of their time on the line down the stretch of the quarter, and seven of their final 11 points came off free throws. But at SC, that chance was about as likely as the Cubs winning the World Series. “They have guys flying all over the place“.

“It’s lovely to us”, Martin said of his flummoxing defense. When they play real competition, it’s going to burn them.’ That’s disrespectful.

“They’re so long and they’re fast and”. He is averaging 17 points and nearly 10 rebounds a game. “They don’t back down”.

The season’s obviously not over and Frank Martin will be the first to tell you that his team is not taking a celebratory break coming into their Sweet Sixteen game with the Bears, but if one were to freeze time and recognize what the Gamecocks did to get to where they are, that alone could be construed as a program milestone. “We don’t get out of the way”.

“What they do is a great job of making it hard and then basketball’s such a game of momentum and after you get off to a bad start”, Drew said. “It’s every kid’s dream to play in the Garden”. When I asked him why he spoke at so many clinics, he said, ‘I remember when I was a high school coach, trying to get better.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure no one was expecting either of us to be here”, SC guard P.J.

White said the familiarity of the opponent will help both teams with the short turnaround. “I took a hot shower, tried to find a movie on the hotel TV and just listen to some music and try to relax”.

Working that pick-and-roll attack with Koenig is Ethan Happ, a joy to watch if you love a polished, old-fashioned post game.

North Carolina is now within a win of a second straight Final Four.

“Less than 36 hours after we arrived at our hotel, we were back playing Butler, which by the way, was the only team there that had two National Basketball Association players on their roster”, Martin said “We slept walked the whole first half”.