2024-03-24 16:27:11
South Carolina’s Bree Hall (23) warms up before facing North Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Tracy Glantz
tglantz@thestate.com
Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks (33-0) continue their journey into March Madness at 1 p.m. Sunday (ABC) with a second-round game once morest No. 8 seed North Carolina at Colonial Life Arena.
The State’s Payton Titus and Chapel Fowler are on site to provide updates from the game. Follow along as USC tries to take its next step toward a third NCAA national championship.
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Bree Hall update
Hall, who missed Friday’s game for “precautionary reasons,” participated in pregame warmups (following taking an extra 15 minutes or so to get out to the court), and is set to play once morest UNC, as she and Staley forecasted Saturday. Hall is wearing a compression sleeve on her left knee.
Betting line
South Carolina is a significant favorite in this game. ESPN BET has the Gamecocks favored by 21.5 points on Sunday once morest the Tar Heels. USC was a whopping 54.5-point favorite in its first round game Friday once morest 16 seed Presbyterian College.
Sweet 16 opponent
There are two possible Sweet 16 opponents for Sunday’s USC-UNC winner. Within the Albany 1 region, No. 4 Indiana beat No. 13 Fairfield and No. 5 Oklahoma beat No. 12 Florida Gulf Coast in Sunday games.
Indiana and Oklahoma will play a second round game Monday in Bloomington, Ind., with the winner advancing to Albany to play the USC/UNC winner next Friday (March 29).
Watch South Carolina today
- Who: No. 1 South Carolina (33-0) vs. No. 8 North Carolina (20-12)
- Where: Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SC
- When: 1 p.m. Sunday
- TV: ABC
- Radio: 107.5 FM locally (see full list of affiliates here)
- Stream: Via WatchESPN.com or the ESPN app
- Next up: The winner of South Carolina-UNC will advance to a Sweet 16 game in Albany, New York next Friday once morest either No. 4 Indiana or No. 5 Oklahoma (those teams play Monday)
Chapel Fowler has covered Clemson football, among other topics, for The State since June 2022. He’s a Denver, N.C., native, a 2020 UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus and a pickup basketball enthusiast with previous stops at the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer and Chatham (N.C.) News + Record. His work has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the South Carolina Press Association and the North Carolina Press Association.
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