- BREAKING NEWS: South Carolina Suffer a Greatest Loss – The Community Laments Tragic Loss of Five All-Star Players in Devastating Car Crash This Morning………to.……Two women’s basketball teams in the SEC Conference have separated themselves from the rest of the pack this season. The problem is that they aren’t separate from each other.
The No. 1 ranked Texas Longhorns and the No. 6 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks have identical 14-1 SEC records after South Carolina’s 75-59 win over Ole Miss and Texas’ 64-64 win over Mississippi State on Thursday. Both teams have one conference game left on their schedules on Sunday (at home against Florida for Texas and at home against No. 15 ranked Kentucky for South Carolina), and given that they’ve each beaten the other one time, this puts them in a dead tie.
Therefore, it both teams win on Sunday, their seeding in the SEC tournament will come down to a coin toss.
When speaking about this somewhat absurd scenario on February 26, Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley said, “We control our own destiny, and then if we take care of business and Texas takes care of business, then our fate is in a coin toss. Yay,” per an X post from Matt Dowell.
Staley then joked that both her
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