Next season’s SEC opponents announced for South Carolina men’s basketball
The South Carolina men’s basketball team’s SEC opponents for the 2022-23 season were released by the conference Wednesday.
Heading into their first season with new coach Lamont Paris at the helm, the Gamecocks will host Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn and Texas A&M at Colonial Life Arena, and they will travel to Florida, Kentucky, LSU and Missouri.
USC will play both home and away games against Georgia, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Times, dates and broadcast information for all of those matchups — as well as USC’s non-conference scheduled — will be released at a later date.
A former Wisconsin assistant under Bo Ryan and Greg Gard and a five-year head coach at Chattanooga, Paris is taking over the USC program from 10-year coach Frank Martin. The Gamecocks are coming off an 18-13 season in which they did not earn a bid to the NCAA tournament or NIT.
USC’s roster will look vastly different, with the team’s entire starting lineup either graduated or playing elsewhere. Paris and his new staff have turned to the transfer portal to bolster the program, adding in-state products like The Citadel’s Hayden Brown and Coastal Carolina’s Ebrima Dibba as well as intriguing project players like Ohio State’s speedy Meechie Johnson.
This story was originally published June 29, 2022 at 11:31 AM.
