COLUMBIA, S.C. – Tennessee’s February free fall ended with a resounding thud at South Carolina.
The fifth loss in seven games this month for the basketball Volunteers was their most lopsided of the season, replacing the previous one that happened 11 days earlier.
The Gamecocks broke out of a slump of their own by racing to an 18-point lead in the first half and emphatically answering Tennessee’s surge to complete the season sweep of the Vols with an 82-55 Southeastern Conference rout at Colonial Life Arena on Saturday afternoon.
“After you get your butt kicked, you kind of want to put your head down,” Vols freshman Grant Williams said, “but in order to get stronger you’ve just got to keep moving and take it as it was a bad night and move on from it.
“Let it sink in one night, and then the next day forget about it and get ready to get started for the next game.”