First look at South Carolina WBB’s SEC home games, road trips for new season
Dawn Staley and the South Carolina women’s basketball team know where they’ll be playing their SEC games in the 2025-26 season.
USC will face Georgia, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Texas at home in Colonial Life Arena, the conference announced Tuesday. The highest-profile of those SEC home games for the Gamecocks project to be the matchups with Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Texas.
The Gamecocks will travel to Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Texas A&M and Oklahoma for conference road trips this upcoming season.
That means the first time facing Gamecocks transfer MiLaysia Fulwiley — now with LSU — will happen in Baton Rouge.
The lone SEC opponent South Carolina will play twice this year is Alabama.
The Gamecocks will also play Texas early in the season during the Players Era Championship in Las Vegas during Thanksgiving Week. The Gamecocks are also playing UCLA and Duke in the tournament.
Last season South Carolina faced Missouri, Mississippi State, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss on the road while playing Texas A&M, Oklahoma, LSU, Auburn, Florida, Arkansas and Kentucky at home. South Carolina played Texas on the road and at home last season.
The Gamecocks recently had two road non-conference games on the 2025-26 schedule revealed.
South Carolina will hit the road on Dec. 4 to play at Louisville as part of the ACC-SEC Challenge. The Gamecocks will travel back to Tampa, the site of last season’s Final Four, for a matchup with South Florida on Dec. 18.
South Carolina also announced in March it will play Southern California at Crypto Arena in Los Angeles on Nov. 15.
A full game schedule is typically finalized in September.
This story was originally published June 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM.
