No.4 Tennessee can clinch the SEC regular-season title and the top seed in next week’s conference tournament with a win at No. 17 South Carolina on Wednesday, but the Gamecocks still can at least share the crown with an upset.
2024 NCAA Basketball Betting & Expert Analysis #4 Tennessee vs #17 South Carolina | MyBookie Sportsbook Week 18 NCAAB
How to Bet Tennessee at South Carolina NCAA Basketball Odds & TV Info
Where: Colonial Life Arena
TV: ESPN2
Stream: ESPN+
Radio: Tunein.com
Opening NCAAB Lines: Tennessee -2.5 (total 73.5)
#4 Tennessee vs #17 South Carolina Last Meeting
It’s almost impossible to win in Knoxville these days as Tennessee is so good, but South Carolina won there 63-59 on Jan. 30 when it was unranked and UT was No. 5. Ta’Lon Cooper hit a critical 3-pointer with 40 seconds left and scored 18 points, and B.J. Mack added 16 points for the Gamecocks. Dalton Knecht scored 12 points in the final three minutes and finished with 31 points, and Santiago Vescovi added 10 points for the Volunteers. “(South Carolina) scored 63,” Vols coach Rick Barnes said, noting his team missed 10 layups and was 10-for-12 from the free-throw line. “Our goal is to keep our opponent under 69. We were not a very good offensive team.” Even with that loss, UT 10-2 in its last 12 matchups with South Carolina.
Why Bet on Tennessee Volunteers?
UT’s Zakai Zeigler scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half and co-paced Tennessee with four assists in the game. Star Dalton Knecht tallied 13 points, his second-lowest total in SEC play, as he battled foul trouble, but hit a key jump-shot with 2:30 left to triple the lead.
Josiah-Jordan James, who tipped out a missed free throw in the closing seconds leading to Zeigler’s game-clinching shots at the line, totaled 11 points and a season-best 13 rebounds, one shy of his career high, to lead all players.
Since the award’s inception in 1984-85, Knecht is the first Volunteer to win four SEC Player of the Week accolades in a single campaign. Only five others—Allan Houston, Chris Lofton (seven), Dyron Nix (five), Jarnell Stokes and Grant Williams—have that many in a full Tennessee career. In addition, Knecht is the first player from any school to win four SEC Player of the Week plaudits in a season since Arkansas’ Mason Jones in 2019-20.
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College Basketball Vegas Odds
| Week 18 Online College Basketball Betting Odds Subject to Change | SPREAD | MONEYLINE | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| #17 South Carolina | +2.5 | +135 | U 73.5 |
| #4 Tennessee | -2.5 | -170 | O 73.5 |
Why Bet on South Carolina Gamecocks?
“Lots of doubts around these guys. I knew what we had, I knew what our guys were about,” said Paris, who went 11-21 his first season a year ago. “I knew we had winning guys, who wanted to win.”
South Carolina erased a nine-point deficit over the final 11:29 of regulation vs. UF to secure their 12th SEC victory of the season.
He also had two critical steals as Florida tried to regain the lead. Johnson had three tie-breaking shots in the final five minutes, including his 3-pointer that put the Gamecocks ahead for good with 43.4 seconds left. It was the 13th time that Johnson has led the Gamecocks in scoring. Carolina improved to 10-3 over the last two seasons when Johnson scores 20 or more.
Guard Jacobi Wright had 16 critical points (12 in the first half) including four triples. Carolina improved to 8-0 in games this season when he scores 10 or more. Guard Ta’Lon Cooper led South Carolina in passing for the 20th game this season, dishing out four helpers. Cooper entered 8th in the country in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.51:1) and fourth in the SEC in assists per game averaging (4.4) per contest. Cooper added 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting, knocking down three triples.
Carolina has had 13 single-digit turnover games this season which sets a new program record since joining the SEC in 1991-92. The 2007-08 team had 12 games with single-digit giveaways, which was the most by a Gamecock team prior.
USC is now 15-3 in games decided by 10 or less points this season with the only losses at No. 24/20 Clemson, vs. Georgia on Jan. 16 and vs. LSU on Feb. 17. Carolina has 12 SEC wins, which ties the 2016-17 team for the second most SEC wins all-time at Carolina. This year marks the eighth time the Gamecocks have won 10 or more SEC games.
“We kept saying, as you stack these things together, ultimately there’ll be a bigger prize, and the immediate bigger prize was an invitation to the NCAA Tournament,” Paris said. “That was the short term, long term prize. And having continued to do things … the other one now is that you’re looking in the face of a potential SEC regular season championship.”
This is the latest in the season the Gamecocks have been ranked since being slotted No. 14 in the final AP Poll of the 1997-98 season (March 9, 2018).
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#4 Tennessee vs #17 South Carolina Expert Prediction
Tennessee 71, South Carolina 67
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