2026–27 season
South Carolina
Gamecocks · SEC
- Record
- 3–0
- Unranked in the AP poll
- Projected seed
- Out
- Outside the projected field
- Efficiency
- +7.4
- No. 67 in Division I
- Head coach
- Lamont Paris
- Since 2022–23
- Home
- Columbia, SC
- 5,864 mi from Detroit
- National titles
- 0
- Still chasing the first
Statistical profile
Percentiles compare this team with all 345 Division I teams. 100th is best in every row, including defense, where lower raw numbers are better: green bars are the top of the country, red the bottom, blue a style (pace, three-point rate) rather than a strength. Season totals include tournament games. Opponent-adjusted efficiency and schedule strength appear after 8 games; until then they swing too much to mean anything.
Efficiency
Scoring & shooting
Possessions
Defense & roster
Strengths and weaknesses
Flagged automatically when a stat sits in the top or bottom 15% of all 345 Division I teams.
- StrengthGrinds the pace downPace: 63.24th
- StrengthBig, tall lineupAverage height: 6′6.7″93rd
- WeaknessMostly new to the programProgram experience: 1.05 yrs9th
- StrengthElite three-point shootingThree-point %: 41.1%90th
Tournament history
Every NCAA tournament appearance since 2002, with who South Carolina beat and who ended the run.
Each banner lists the years that round was South Carolina's finish: titles all-time, the other rounds since 2002.
Appearances
3
Record
4–3
Sweet 16s
1
Final Fours
1
Titles
0
- 20246Round of 64Lost to 11 Oregon 87–73. Bracket
- 20177Final FourBeat 10 Marquette, 2 Duke, 3 baylor, 4 Florida. Lost to 1 Gonzaga 77–73. Bracket
- 200410Round of 64Lost to 7 Memphis 59–43. Bracket
Roster
Season per-game stats for every player who appeared.
- Leading scorer
- Juan Fernandez
- 19.0 ppg
- Tallest
- Aleksas Bieliauskas
- 6′11″
- Best at the line
- —
- —
- Longest in program
- Hayden Assemian
- 2 seasons
| Player | WT | Yrs | GP | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8Kory MincyGuard · East Point, GA | 6′1″ | 185 | 1 | 2 | 33.0 | 12.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 42.9 | 83.3 | 18.8 |
| 7Jakub NecasForward · Blansko, Czech Republic | 6′10″ | 240 | 1 | 2 | 31.0 | 11.5 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 14.0 |
| 23Camden HeideForward · Wayzata, MN | 6′7″ | 215 | 1 | 2 | 29.0 | 9.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 42.9 | 66.7 | 15.9 |
| 21Juan Fernandez · Santa Fe, Argentina | 6′11″ | 220 | 1 | 2 | 25.5 | 19.0 | 7.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 35.0 |
| 32Aleksas BieliauskasForward · Kaunas, Lithuania | 6′11″ | 250 | 1 | 2 | 24.5 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 100.0 | 83.3 | 18.9 |
| 1Marcus Johnson · Cleveland, OH | 6′2″ | 185 | 1 | 1 | 24.0 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 21.4 |
| 25Davion HannahGuard · Milwaukee, WI | 6′6″ | 190 | 1 | 2 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 2.5 | 25.0 | 71.4 | 24.9 |
| 14Eli SparkmanGuard · Cleveland, TN | 6′0″ | 172 | 2 | 1 | 14.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 15.6 |
| 4Shane BlakeneyGuard · Rock Hill, SC | 6′5″ | 197 | 1 | 2 | 14.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 16.8 |
| 20Hayden AssemianForward · Greenville, SC | 6′6″ | 228 | 2 | 1 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 19Hugo Lopez · Madrid, Spain | 6′9″ | 210 | 1 | 2 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.3 |
| 15Ford Wilder · Sumter, SC | 6′4″ | 190 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| 13Grant PolkGuard · Gainesville, VA | 6′6″ | 200 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17Mathias Alessanco · Joinville, Brazil | 6′8″ | 235 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12Nasir Hines · Cleveland, OH | 6′10″ | 200 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Yrs = seasons with this program (transfers count from their arrival). Headshots appear once rights-cleared images are available.
Season schedule
Every game with consensus closing lines (median across sportsbooks) and against-the-spread results.
ATS overall
2–1
ATS as favorite
2–1
ATS as underdog
0–0
ATS neutral court
0–0
ATS vs. tournament teams
0–0
ATS vs. ranked teams
0–0
Over / under
1–2
| Date | Opponent | Result | Spread | Total | ATS | O/U |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3 | vsSTEStetson | W81–55 | -19 | 149.5 | Cover | Under |
| Nov 8 | vsSE Southeast Missouri State | W78–68 | -17.5 | 144.5 | Miss | Over |
| Nov 11 | vsSAISaint Peter's | W77–41 | -22.5 | 126.5 | Cover | Under |
| Nov 14 | vsGARGardner-Webb | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 18 | vsELONElon | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 25 | NUSCUSC | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 26 | NARIArizona State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 1 | @nc-state | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 6 | vsUT UT Martin | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 12 | vsYOUYoungstown State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 15 | vsCLEClemson | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 19 | @MARMaryland | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 22 | vsNC North Carolina Central | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 29 | vsSC South Carolina State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 2 | @LSULSU6 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 6 | vsARK#19Arkansas9 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 9 | vsA&MTexas A&M6 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 12 | @VAN#22Vanderbilt2 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 16 | @missouri | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 20 | vsALA#18Alabama5 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23 | @MISMississippi State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 27 | vstexas | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 30 | @OKLOklahoma | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 2 | @FLO#1Florida1 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 6 | vsGEOGeorgia | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 10 | @UKKentucky | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 13 | vsAUBAuburn10 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 20 | vsOLEOle Miss8 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 23 | @TEN#11Tennessee6 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 27 | vsMISMississippi State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 2 | vsFLO#1Florida1 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 6 | @GEOGeorgia | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |