Huge Setback: Mike Macdonald Angrily Announced His Resignation and Departure After facing….see..more… Wrong.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 team and Texas are surely hoping that the other loses so that a coin toss is avoided. She then added, “It is what it is. I think we should have thought a little bit more ahead of this situation… that’s
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