COLUMBIA, S.C. — The top-ranked women’s basketball team from Columbia, South Carolina, heads up Interstate 26 on Sunday for a matchup of two schools that share the same two-letter nickname. No. 1 South Carolina faces No. 3 Southern Cal in The Real SC event at Greenville’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena, with tipoff set for 1 p.m. on ABC.
Sunday marks the third ranked opponent of the season for the Gamecocks and the first for the Trojans. South Carolina owns a 5-0 record in the series, including two wins last season. The second of those came in Columbia, when the teams met again in round two of the NCAA Tournament.
Few road trips feel more like home for this program. South Carolina is 22-3 all-time in the Greenville arena, with every one of those games played in March, and it claimed six of its nine SEC Tournament championships there along with the 2023 NCAA regional title. Texas snapped a 19-game Gamecock winning streak in the building in the 2026 SEC Tournament final.
Scoring has come from everywhere. South Carolina has had a different leading scorer in each game, and six players have reached double figures at least once. Joyce Edwards averages 15.3 points, Tessa Johnson 13.3, and Chloe Kitts and Agot Makeer 12.3 apiece. Johnson has scored in double figures every time out, and Kitts brings back-to-back double-doubles into Sunday.
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