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South Carolina and Texas again split their two games this season. The Longhorns took the first matchup in Austin, 66-64, on Rori Harmon\u2019s last-second baseline jumper<\/a>. However, the Gamecocks won the rematch<\/a> in Columbia, 68-65.<\/p>\n Dawn Staley\u2019s team is pursuing its fourth consecutive SEC women\u2019s basketball title. Both South Carolina and Texas are in line for No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n How to watch Texas vs. South Carolina in SEC championship<\/p>\n Date: Sunday, March 8 Follow along with Yahoo Sports live updates as Texas and South Carolina face off in the SEC championship:<\/p>\n Live9 updates<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM PDT<\/p>\n Texas is rolling again, this time on a 10-0 run to grow their lead to nearly 20 with just under three minutes until halftime.<\/p>\n Cassandra Negley<\/p>\n Madison Booker picked up her second foul less than three minutes into the second quarter and hits the bench. That\u2019s one area the junior needs to tighten up for Texas to reach a Final Four. She\u2019s been in foul trouble in many of their big games.<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM PDT<\/p>\n South Carolina finally found some offense, but after facing such a large deficit to start the game, it trails by 15 points at the end of the first quarter. Texas sophomore Justice Carlton has been red-hot, outscoring the Gamecocks (13 points) all on her own. Tessa Johnson is the only South Carolina starter who scored (4 points) in the quarter.<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM PDT<\/p>\n Dawn Staley\u2019s timeout seemingly shook her team out of its malaise, as Tessa Johnson nailed a 3-pointer out of the break to get the Gamecocks in the points.<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM PDT<\/p>\n Where is South Carolina? Texas opens the game on an incredible 14-0 run as South Carolina stumbles out of the gate, looking disjointed and undisciplined on both ends of the floor. Dawn Staley finally saw enough and called a timeout with just over six minutes to play in the first period.<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM PDT<\/p>\n Texas gets on the board first, and the Gamecocks\u2019 Raven Johnson picked up an offensive foul less than 30 seconds into the game.<\/p>\n Cassandra Negley<\/p>\n Welcome to Bon Secours Wellness Arena, where South Carolina is playing Texas for the seventh time in 421 days. That\u2019s a lot of matchups in a span of one year, one month and 25 days. While each team is playing three games in three days, South Carolina played the early tip-off the last two games. Texas took the nightcaps.<\/p>\n Jason Owens<\/p>\n How big of an advantage will South Carolina have over Texas by playing Sunday\u2019s SEC championship game in Greenville?<\/p>\n Sun, March 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM PDT<\/p>\n Yahoo Sports Staff<\/p>\n Less than an hour from tipoff, the Gamecocks sit as 3.5-point favorites over the Longhorns to take home the SEC title at BetMGM.<\/p>\n South Carolina\u2019s moneyline odds are set at -170, while Texas sits at +140. The point total is installed at 134.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive season, No. 3 South Carolina and No. 4 Texas face each other for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28765,3112,34522,9764,9915,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-195979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-gamecocks","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-rori-harmon","tag-sec","tag-south-carolina","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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