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South Carolina Basketball Schedule
The
University of South
Carolina announced its 2005-06 men's basketball schedule
today. Playing eight games at home prior to the SEC slate
opening on Jan. 8 against Tennessee, USC will host the SEC
Eastern Division teams once and the following SEC Western
Division teams as well: Mississippi State, Alabama and LSU. USC
will also play in the 2005 Great Alaska Shootout.
"I'm excited about the competitiveness of our schedule. I
believe it offers the proper challenges our team needs," said
USC Head Coach Dave Odom who returns four of five starters from
last year's 2005 NIT Championship team. "The Great Alaska
Shootout will provide us with an early season opportunity that
will test us. We will play some really good teams in Anchorage.
Our non-conference schedule has a good mixture of strong home
and away opponents with Clemson, Temple, Pittsburgh, Toledo and
Detroit-Mercy.
"As always the SEC will emerge as one of the best conferences in
the country. It is my hope that our team will use the
experience of winning the NIT Championship to catapult itself to
compete for SEC honors. It is the right schedule for right now
- it will test us."
South Carolina is scheduled to play 11 of its 16 SEC games on
television. South Carolina will host two ESPN games in the
Colonial Center (Alabama, Feb. 14) and LSU (Feb. 28). USC was a
perfect 5-0 on ESPN last season, including a 73-61 victory over
No. 3 Kentucky on Feb. 15.
In addition, USC will host Kentucky in a nationally televised
tilt on CBS (Feb. 14). During the SEC schedule eight USC games
will be broadcast Jefferson-Pilot and FoxSports South.
At least two of Carolina's non-conference games will be
televised nationally, with additional games on the schedule to
be announced at a later date (as televised). ESPN2 will
televise the Alaska-Anchorage game on Nov. 24 and Fox Sports
South will televise the game at Clemson on Dec. 3.
After an exhibition game on Nov. 10 vs. USC-Aiken, Carolina
opens the regular season with a 7 pm match-up at Western
Carolina on Nov. 18. The Gamecocks return to open the home
schedule with a 5 pm game against Toledo on Nov. 20.
Carolina will then compete in the 2005 Great Alaska Shootout
over Thanksgiving weekend in Anchorage. The Gamecocks will
tip-off the Shootout with a 10 pm (EST) game with
Alaska-Anchorage on ESPN2. Other teams competing in the Great
Alaska Shootout include Marquette, SIU-Carbondale, Eastern
Washington, Southern California, Oral Roberts and Monmouth.
The Gamecocks non-conference schedule includes a team from the
ACC (at Clemson), a team from the Big East (Pittsburgh), a team
from the Atlantic 10 (at Temple) and teams from the Horizon
League, MAC, Big South, MEAC and Southern Conferences,
respectively (Detroit-Mercy, Toledo, Winthrop, SC State and
Wofford).
USC will also play two doubleheaders with the USC women (Nov. 20
and Dec. 17) and one with Temple (Dec. 22, Temple women vs.
Villanova).
See attached for the complete schedule. Three SEC road games
have times to be announced at a later date (at Vanderbilt,
Florida and Georgia).
Thur., Nov. 10
USC-Aiken (Exhibition) Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Fri., Nov. 18
at WCU
Cullowhee, NC
7:00 PM
Sun., Nov. 20
Toledo (DH)
Colonial Center
5:00 PM
Great Alaska Shootout (Anchorage, AK)
Thurs., Nov. 24
at Anchorage-Alaska (ESPN2)
10:00 PM
Fri., Nov. 25
vs. Great Alaska Shootout (Semis: ESPN2)
Sat., Nov. 26
vs. Great Alaska Shootout (Finals: ESPN2)
Wed., Nov. 30
UNC-Greensboro Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Sat., Dec. 3
at Clemson (FSS) Clemson, SC
4:00 PM
Wed., Dec. 14
Winthrop
Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Sat., Dec. 17
Wofford (DH)
Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Thurs., Dec. 22
at Temple (DH) Philadelphia,
PA
8:00 PM
Wed., Dec. 28
Pittsburgh
Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Sat., Dec. 31
Detroit-Mercy
Colonial Center
2:00 PM
Tues.,Jan.3
SC State
Colonial Center
7:30 PM
Sun.,Jan.8
Tennessee (JP) * Colonial
Center
4:00 PM
Wed., Jan. 11
at Mississippi *
Oxford, MS
8:00 PM
Sat., Jan. 14
Georgia (JP)*
Colonial Center
3:00 PM
Wed., Jan. 18
at Vanderbilt *
Nashville, TN
TBA
Sat., Jan. 21
at Kentucky (JP)* Lexington, KY
3:00 PM
Wed., Jan. 25
Florida (JP)*
Colonial Center
8:00 PM
Sat., Jan. 28
at Tennessee (FSS)* Knoxville, TN
5:00 PM
Sat., Feb. 4
at Arkansas (JP)*
Fayetteville, AR
3:00 PM
Wed., Feb. 8
at Florida *
Gainesville, FL
TBA
Sat., Feb. 11
Miss. State (FSS)* Coaches vs. Cancer
Day 6:00 PM
Tues., Feb. 14
Alabama (ESPN)* Colonial Center
7:00 PM
Sat., Feb. 18
Kentucky (CBS)* Colonial
Center
1:30 PM
Wed., Feb. 22
at Georgia *
Athens, GA
TBA
Sat., Feb. 25
Vanderbilt (JP) *
Colonial Center
1:00 PM
Tues., Feb. 28
LSU (ESPN) *
Colonial Center
9:00 PM
Sat., Mar. 4
at Auburn *
Auburn, AL
2:00 PM
March 9-12
at SEC Tournament (JP/CBS)
Nashville, TN
All Times are
EST. DH - Doubleheader with Women's Basketball
TV: JP - Jefferson Pilot; FSS - FoxSports South
* - Southeastern Conference
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