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The Gamecocks have to win out if they hope to make third-year coach Shane Beamer 3-for-3 in reaching a bowl at the start of his South Carolina career. The Commodores are trying to avoid a second 0-for-the-SEC in coach Clark Lea's three years. KEY MATCHUP South Carolina WR Xavier Legette vs. Vanderbilt pass defense.
Xavier Leggette caught nine passes for 217 yards and two touchdowns to lead South Carolina to a 38-28 win Saturday over Jacksonville State. Spencer Rattler was 27-of-38 passing for 399 yards but outside of the two best players on the field, the game didn't increase hopes for fans of South Carolina (3-6, 1-5 Southeastern Conference) that the team can win three more in a row and make a bowl.
South Carolina's highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as a recently added firing squad and the old electric chair. The state Supreme Court set a Feb. 6 date for a hearing over a lawsuit by four death row inmates out of appeals who initially argued dying by electrocution or bullets to the heart is cruel and unusual punishment.
South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso has been content the past two years to come off the bench behind one of college basketball's best in All-American teammate Aliyah Boston. Now, with Boston excelling in the WNBA, it is up to the 6-foot-7 Cardoso to take her place front and center for the Gamecocks. “Kamilla," coach Dawn Staley said after practice, "has got to be dominant.”
Nikki Haley claimed new momentum in the race to supplant Donald Trump as her party's front-runner during an appearance in her home state Monday, where she formally filed to appear on the South Carolina Republican presidential primary ballot. The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador returned to the Statehouse where her political career took off for a signing ceremony.