Colonial Life Arena played host to a bout between two SEC heavyweights Sunday afternoon, and the home-team Gamecocks emerged victorious. No. 2 South Carolina took care of No. 5 Texas with relative ease, cruising to a 67-50 victory. The Gamecocks improved to 16-1 on the year and are a perfect 4-0 to start SEC play.

See where South Carolina women's basketball and coach Dawn Staley stand in the rankings after beating Texas on Sunday and a 4-0 start to SEC play.

Mike Lopresti is a member of the US Basketball Writers Hall of Fame, Ball State journalism Hall of Fame and Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. He has covered college basketball for 43 years, including 39 Final Fours. He is so old he covered Bob Knight when he had dark hair and basketball shorts were actually short.

CS Bakersfield at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m. Idaho St. at Sacramento St., 10 p.m. Long Beach St. at CS Northridge, 10 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific, 10 p.m. San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m. UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 10 p.m. UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego, 10 p.m. Weber St. at Portland St., 10 p.m.

Milos Uzan scored 14 points, L.J. Cryer added 13 points and No. Houston routed Utah for its 11th straight win. J'Wan Roberts had 11 points and Terrance Arceneaux scored 10 points for the Cougars (15-3,

Hunter Dickinson scored a game-high 16 points and pulled down nine rebounds, Flory Bidunga posted his first career double-double and No. 12 Kansas overcame an early deficit for a 74-61 victory over TCU on Wednesday night in Fort Worth,

Notre Dame at Boston College, 7 p.m. Siena at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m. St. Peter's at Merrimack, 7 p.m. UCLA at Rutgers, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at N. Kentucky, 6 p.m.

“Those three same guys (Harris, Dickinson, Adams), the challenge is their continuity,” Dixon said. “They’re returning players, they got others on the bench back. They added top recruits, Mayo is a local kid that everybody wanted (along with) the Storr kid. They brought in the top big man in the country this year with Flory.

No. 12 Kansas visits the TCU Horned Frogs after Hunter Dickinson scored 25 points in the Jayhawks' 84-74 victory against the Kansas State Wildcats.

Julian Mackey had 19 points in Houston Christian's 76-72 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Monday night.

It begins here for Texas women's basketball. The Longhorns took care of business Thursday night, dominating 18th-ranked Alabama 84-40. It was the kind of complete performance Texas will need in ...

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