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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014 VOL. 114, NO. 15 • SINCE 1908 SG elections: Meet your candidates

Student Government elections President will take place on Feb. 18 and 19 on Self Service Carolina, and students Jameson Broggi Lindsay Richardson Chris Sumpter will elect new executive offi cers and Third-year political science student Third-year political science, Third-year criminal justice and several new student senators. Former intern for U.S. Sen. Jim management and marketing student economics student Seven candidates have been Vice presidential coordinator of senate confirmed for the three executive DeMint and Sen. Tim Scott, both President pro tempore, student outreach offi ces: three for president, two for Republicans of South Carolina. senate Former USC Sumter student body vice president and two for treasurer. Master of ceremonies, Campus University ambassador president If needed, a runoff election will Crusade for Christ Resident mentor in Carolina Former student senator take place on Feb. 25 and 26; new Women’s Community Resident mentor in Harper/Elliott President, Young Americans for Liberty offi cers will be inducted March 19. EMPOWER diversity peer educator —Compiled by Amanda Coyne Page, South Carolina Senate Owner, Sumpter Farms

Vice President Treasurer

Donnie Iorio David Leggett Ryan Harman Natalie Hageman Third-year management science Second-year economics and Third-year business economics Second-year business student and marketing student political science student student Senate fi nance committee chair, Chief justice, Constitutional Historian, Student Former vice president of internal student senate Council (currently on leave of Government aff airs, Carolina Productions Supplemental instructor, MATH absence due to campaign) Member, Carolina Judicial Former treasurer, BGLSA 122 (Calculus for Business and Social Sciences) National president, Phi Beta Council Former comptroller, Student South Campus liaison, Residence Lambda business fraternity Intern, South Carolina Senate Government Hall Association Founder, USC for Babies Judiciary Committee Capstone Fellow Former president, Carolina Resident mentor, Woodrow Former president, Gamecock Women’s Community hall College Club Swimming government Students vote for Cheerios ad in Super Bowl class

Cereal commercial takes annual Cocky Award Natalie Pita [email protected]

General Mills brought back Gracie and her interracial parents from last year’s Super Bowl commercial during the first unscheduled timeout of Sunday’s game. According to Bonnie Drewniany’s Super Bowl of Advertising class, General Mills was doing something right when they created the commercial. The students voted it this year’s best ad, making its creators the winner of the annual Cocky Award. In the ad, a father uses Cheerios to explain to his daughter that she would soon have a baby brother, and the girl responds by suggesting they also add a puppy to the family. The students in Drewniany’s class were focused on the commercials during the big game, while most people focused on the game, spent time with friends or gorged on Michael Duggan / THE DAILY GAMECOCK food. Students from 19 campuses came to USC for the Student Leadership and Diversity Conference on Saturday. The group of more than 100 students gathered in the Carolina Coliseum to watch the game together and rate each commercial based on its likability, persuasiveness, brand Conference speakers inspire identity and whether or not they’d seen it before. USC hosts more than 500 students of Dreams, an organization that built a football “What it comes down to for me is, ‘Am I for leadership workshops, talks stadium for a New Orleans high school. intrigued by it the whole time?’” fourth-year The 27-year-old said that everything he did business student Louis Howell said. “That’s Natalie Pita started out as a failure, even though he is now the the one I’m going to give the best score to. If [email protected] chief executive of Dinner Lab, a company that there’s more than one that does that for me, pairs little-known chefs with diners looking for I’ll give it to the one that sets above the rest.” USC hosted students from 19 campuses across a unique experiences. The company was recently The class stopped after every commercial the South on Saturday for the 28th Annual Student valued at $55 million although it began less than to rate it, and during the game, they skipped Leadership and Diversity Conference, themed two years ago. past the lag time in between plays. Even so, “Find Your Fit: Unlock Your Future.” “Just move as fast as possible, and destroy the students typically finish the game an “We are excited that many years ago that we had everything in your path,” he said. “I think that’s hour and a half behind the rest of the world. the foresight to start a conference of this type to the only way you’re going to do something special While preparing for the event, students give individuals a one-day opportunity to come or magical.” practiced rating ads in class and analyzed and hear some wonderful workshops,” said Jerry Bordainick said he likes to speak to college what made previous winners of the Cocky Brewer, associate vice president for student affairs. students because they still have the idea that they Award so successful. They also researched “We’ve got a lot of insight to share with you, and can accomplish anything. the behind-the-scenes aspects of the we hope we’ll make you think a little bit different.” The second keynote speaker, Julie Beck, aimed commercials. A grand total of 509 students came from South to inspire students to follow their dreams. Beck “I’ve gained an appreciation of how much Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia to traveled to all 50 states before she was 30 and all goes into making that million-dollar ad,” attend three different workshop sessions and hear seven continents by 40, and her adventures have fourth-year advertising student Shannon two keynote speakers during the conference. now taken her to 77 countries. White said. “You’ve got 500 different people here,” Brewer She encouraged the audience to challenge Drewniany said she hopes that said. “Believe it or not, everyone looks at things themselves, meet new people and try new things. investigating the process behind the a little bit different; they have a little bit different “All the people in the world fit into three commercials has taught her students “never perspective, a little bit different takeaway.” categories,” Brewer said. “There’s people who to look at an ad the same way.” Brian Bordainick, who was recently named one don’t have any idea anything is happening. There’s of Forbes Magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30,” started people who watch things happen. And there’s off the morning by encouraging students to reach people who make things happen.” their own potential. Bordainick is recognized as one of New Orleans’ highest-achieving young DG DG entrepreneurs after he created 9th Ward Field 2 Monday, February 3, 2014

Missing shrimp sparks Legislators attempt to Hoff man found dead in suspicion in Fort Mill law school sale New York apartment

A food distributor in Fort Mill is suffering a A number of South Carolina legislators are Philip Seymour Hoffman, a prominent severe shrimp shortage after a shipment of frozen attempting to stop a Florida-based company from character actor, was found dead Sunday in his shrimp went missing, according to the Rock Hill buying the Charleston School of Law, according to New York apartment, The Associated Press Herald. The State. reported. He was 46. A U.S. Foods employee told police Thursday Infi Law owns for-profi t law schools in Charlotte, Anonymous law enforcement offi cials told the that the shrimp shipment, valued at $5,480, Jacksonville, Fla., and Phoenix and is looking to merge AP that Hoffman was found with a needle in arrived Tuesday and upon arrival, eight cases of the law school with a state-supported school, which his arm. According to those officials, glassine shrimp were not accounted for. would give the state two publicly funded law schools. envelopes containing what is believed to be heroin A police report says police and employees have But before the sale can go through, the South were also found with Hoffman. surveillance footage of a pallet being moved into Carolina Commission on Higher Education must give Those who knew Hoffman took to Twitter to the company a license to operate within the state. express their grief. Actor Ricky Gervais tweeted, a truck. Several legislators are questioning the deal, “One of the greatest actors of a generation and a According to the York County Sheriff’s Offi ce including state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, R-Charleston, sweet, funny & humble man.” Director Spike Lee report, all deliveries are “scanned into the system” who wrote to the Commission on Higher Education said, “Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.” before they are stored; however, employees later saying, “That cannot possibly be a safe bet for South —Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor found eight cases of shrimp were missing. Carolina’s students.” —Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor The status of Infi Law’s application could be known as early as June. —Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.

JAN. 25 TO JAN. 31 lot of whiskey, but she was beginning that said “I would like to play a — While on patrol early to feel better after vomiting several game.” Damage was estimated to be Wednesday morning, an offi cer saw times. When she was asked if she around $5,000. 6 Drug/ Narcotics Violation a man urinating at the corner of had been drinking beer, she told Laurens and Greene streets. When officers no, she had been drinking Theft from Building — Compiled by Hannah Jeffrey, 3 the man saw the patrol car, he began liquor, and told them she was 18. News Editor 3 Larceny (all other) to walk in the opposite direction, When authorities asked her who the but the officer pulled up next to president is, she answered George Briefs don’t include every incident him and noticed the man was still Washington. She was given a citation 2 Traffic/ DUI from the last week, and suspects urinating as he walked. The man and was taken to Palmetto Health are presumed innocent until proven 2 Larceny of Bicycle was unsteady and slurred his speech Baptist. guilty. Information could change as and told the offi cer that he was 18. investigations continue. 1 Trespassing The officer asked for his fake ID, — An officer was dispatched to 1 Larceny of Moped and the man provided a Connecticut South Tower Monday morning driver’s license that did not belong to after vandalism was reported in the 1 Fake ID him. When the offi cer asked where building’s three elevators. Upon he had been, the man said he was at arrival, the officer was told that 1 Alcohol/ Liquor Law Violation “Pavlov’s all night drinking beer.” one light was missing from the fi rst elevator, all six were missing from 1 Larceny/ Theft from Vehicle — An offi cer responded to a report the second elevator and three were Drunkenness of drunkenness in East Quad and missing from the third elevator. 1 found an intoxicated girl vomiting in A sign was hanging in the second 1 Assault the lobby. The girl said she’d had a elevator with a picture of “Jigsaw” DG Check out our sports blog:

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THAD MOORE EMILY READY KAMILA MELKO ALEX BUSCEMI Editor-in-Chief Copy Desk Chief Asst. Photo Editor The Mix Editor

AMANDA COYNE ERIN BURKE BEN CRAWFORD DANNY GARRISON Print Managing Editor Asst. Design Director Asst. Viewpoints Editor Sports Editor Candidates qualifi ed, but more diversity needed

ISSUE outside Student Government One doesn’t need to be a high- The student body will choose circles. It opens up the candidate level political operator to run next year’s elected officials. pool to perspectives and areas for an offi ce that is supposed to OUR STANCE of interest uncommon to those represent everybody (although fl uent in the operations of SG. it certainly helps). No, the only We’d like more diversity, but While it is essential for requirements are to have logged the candidates are qualified. any elected official to have enough credit hours and to be in political experience, we must good standing in one’s college. Birth of president’s Election season is here again, remember that the student body So, why do so few students and the various competitions president is just that: an elected outside of SG choose to run? look especially tight this year. representative of the entire Simple interest can provide granddaughter doesn’t Despite an absence of a fi eld school. a possible answer. Those who of candidates that’s known run for president are usually warrant newspaper article widely around campus, all interested in politics, which “Despite an absence of those running for office tends to increase the probability Story about Pastides’ family appear qualifi ed for the offi ces of a fi eld of candidates that they will have participated they seek. Each has a solid in SG in the past. not relevant to USC community background of involvement in that’s known widely Another answer is simple various USC bodies, and the around campus, all of knowledge of election As a daily reader of The Daily Gamecock, I vast majority of them have those running for offi ce procedure. How many potential was more than a little surprised to have to read extensive leadership or service candidates didn’t sign up simply a cover story this past Friday that informs us experience. appear qualifi ed for the because they didn’t know they of personal family details of the president of What this means, roughly, offi ces they seek. Each could run? While SG has our University of South Carolina. is that we’re in for some very made good efforts to make its Upon reading the article, I was even more tough races. has a solid background deadlines widely known, more stunned to learn that the president had In the running for president of involvement could be done to publicize these contributed to the story by means of an email are two Student Government important dates. interview. veterans, Lindsay Richardson in various USC Don’t get us wrong: This Not only do I fail to see the relevance of this and Chris Sumpter, along with bodies, and the vast year’s election has plenty of story, but it also poses a somewhat confusing third-year political science qualifi ed candidates. situation. major Jameson Broggi, the only majority of them have We only wish more of the After all, while Pastides holds the position student running for executive extensive leadership ... student body, from more parts of university president not on the basis of an offi ce who hasn’t had ties to SG. experience.” of campus, would seek to run election, but upon appointment following a To be honest, it’s refreshing for offi ce. national search (that evidently turned inward), to see political contenders from his position is not that of a king to whom such reporting would ordinarily be applied. Conversely, should The Gamecock be interested in the private lives of any and all members of our university, I encourage Free speech must trump other concerns students, faculty and staff to share their online posted pictures with the paper! Being off ended is no First Amendment: a bedrock do violence to someone. Setting the example, here is a picture of principle which enshrines the This brings up one additional my cat Alphonse that I shared on Instagram excuse for censorship freedom to speak above all point: Just as I have the right during last week’s snow days. I trust The Gamecock will write a story of On the whole, I don’t consider else. to speak, you have the right this important event in my cat’s life. Either myself an absolutist. When it It is an irony that the most to listen. In the free exchange comes to most concepts, from sacred of the enlightenment of ideas, it is a disservice to all that, or we’ll have to go buy somebody a morality to the correct way ideals is that, when it comes to if one side of the argument is crown. to prepare tea, there is always speech, nothing is sacred. removed from play. —Mathieu Defl em, sociology professor room for doubt. And when I say, “nothing is When all arguments become The only worthwhile sacred,” I mean it. In 1989, one-sided, those who believe enterprises are those that keep an Iranian religious fanatic one idea are allowed to believe a close eye on all assumptions sentenced Salman Rushdie, a it uncritically, without the and continue to check and re- British novelist, to death for possibility of self-reflection. check previous conclusions. the crime of writing a novel. It is for this reason that the Science could not exist without His book, “The Satanic unpopular or dissenting voice doubt. (Neither could true Verses,” was burned across is also the most important; it faith, for that matter.) the world for gives us the tools to examine If you don’t have a healthy its blasphemous our own beliefs more seriously. sense of doubt, you leave depiction of In 1919, the U.S. Supreme yourself open to an extremism revered Islamic Court sentenced Charles and certitude that can lead to figures. People Schenck, a Yiddish-speaking horrible consequences. (Would associated with socialist, to six months in anyone, for example, sign up the book were prison for publishing flyers for suicide bombing if they murdered by (in Yiddish) against American weren’t absolutely certain that fanatical mobs. involvement in World War I. they would go on to their Ben What was the Oliver Wendell Holmes called reward?) Crawford world’s reaction? his actions comparable to That Rushdie “shouting ‘fire!’ in a crowded When it comes to free speech, First-year however, I’m as absolute as any English and shouldn’t have theater.” garden-variety fanatic. Russian student written the book What no one seems to Courtesy of Mathieu Defl em Here’s why: I wouldn’t be in the fi rst place. remember (as Christopher able to write the words you’re It didn’t particularly matter Hitchens once pointed out) is reading if we were living under that the passages involved were that during that awful, needless WHAT’S YOUR TAKE? the censor. Even if very little taking place in the mind of a war, there was an actual fi re in madman (or, for that matter, that proverbial theater, and it was changed, everything I Do you want your opinion voiced in wrote from here on out would that the people burning the consumed the lives of millions not be my words, but the words book never got around to of young men before it was put The Daily Gamecock? allowed by authority. reading it.) out. Want to write a letter to the editor? What all of this means is this: The difference is that the only In essence, it would be the Write a weekly column in the authority speaking, and not The freedom of speech means man who dared shout was sent me. that one has the right to offend to prison, and the fire would newspaper? With free speech, there can and be offended. As of now, continue to burn for many Contact viewpoints@dailygamecock. be no totalitarianism. One of the most dangerous threat to years afterward. com for more information. the reasons the United States free speech is the person who is so secure in its democratic claims his or her own hurt and pluralistic aims is the feelings as a right to censor or

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Photos by Clarie Randall / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Troy Van Leeuwen, left, and perform at the Township Auditorium on Friday as part of their 2014 tour, which features goth rocker Chelsea Wolfe.

Homme rocks Township Stone Age were passed over for two after TV performance awards that night, including best rock performance, which went — to the cut off by commercials dismay of any hard rock die-hard — Alex Buscemi to Imagine Dragons. [email protected] The mutually-felt Grammy hate coupled with an already-intense setlist created a perfect storm of aggression. Less than a week after his Grammy It was everything you could ask performance was cut off by a Delta for in a hard rock show: a royally Airlines commercial, lead singer pissed-off vocalist, thrashing guitar Josh Homme took the stage at the solos and an LED screen lighting Tow nsh ip Aud itor iu m with Queens of up a backdrop of rivers of blood, the Stone Age for a powerful, gritty, malformed skulls gnashing their emotional and — most importantly teeth and silhouettes of naked women — uninterrupted display of veteran dancing. rocksmanship. The rapid-strumming intros Homme has been quiet about the shot each song off like a machine Grammy debacle, but the frontman gun, cooled down with Homme’ was clearly miffed about it at his nonchalant vocals and penetrated Friday night show. You could feel him with Queens’ signature guitar moans, seeing red as the band hammered out Homme, visibly upset by his interruption at the Grammys, got lots of love from fans. which were achieved by dragging the one combative song after another strings across a microphone or with The fast-paced show slowed down The audience was made up of a with little to no rest in between. Save a table steel guitar (a dorky-looking only twice. blend of college prep and college for a few thanks, Homme barely Beach Boys instrument, but one lead First, about halfway through “... dropout goth, which made for one stopped to speak to the audience. guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen made Like Clockwork,” the lingering unsung highlight: a woman in all “I know you’re supposed to talk look cool by spitting on the ground bitterness from the Grammys made black with fishnets and whiteout during these things ... but this is one a lot). the disappointment that seeps makeup slow-grinding on a man with of those nights I just wanna play, you The setlist covered much of the through the ’s lyrics that much a polo tucked into khakis. know?” he said. album “...Like Clockwork,” which was more real. Take, for example, the There was something poetic about The crowd responded with a released last year, but they were sure line, “Because not everything that the moment — two opposite souls raucous and heartfelt “F--- the to throw in a few classic fan favorites, goes around comes back around you coming together to revel in their Grammys!” too. “,” “Little Sister” know.” Then, at the beginning of disgust for the mistreatment of Fans were mad at the awards show and “” were all the encore, Homme sat at a piano for modern rock. for more than just the disrespectful included, but sadly, “3’s & 7’s” was the contemplating, depressive “The interruption, however. Queens of the not. Vampyre of Time and Memory.” DG ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ awe-inspiring French drama, 2013’s best fi lm, offers all-time great love story between 2 lesbians in Paris Jonathan Winchell [email protected] “Blue Is the Warmest Color” NOW IN THEATERS Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Starring: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos Rating: NC-17 for explicit sexual content

The French NC-17-rated romantic drama “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” really has no plot, or at least very Courtesy of MCT Campus little happens in the three-hour story. Adèle Exarchopoulos turns in an excellent performance as a lesbian lover in this fearless, overwhelming work of art. The film, the original title of which translates to “The Life of Adèle - Chapters 1 and 2,” follows the it becomes sexual. Unmoved by her first time at quickly blossoms into rapturous, sensual love. life of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) as she starts high intercourse, she realizes not so much that she is a “Blue Is the Warmest Color” won the Palme school. She has full, round cheeks, a slightly agape lesbian yet, but that she does not seem to be attracted d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and in an mouth and a longing curiousness in her eyes. to men. Her heterosexual experience leaves her cold and unprecedented move, the award was given to not only its There is not yet great pain or frustration in her life detached. director, Abdellatif Kechiche, but also to its two female for the most part. Rather, she is a typical teenager trying One of Adèle’s best male friends is gay, and one stars, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. It is the to fi nd her place in the world. She becomes friendly with evening, he takes her to a gay nightclub. She slips out best fi lm of 2013. an attractive boy she goes to school with, and their and fi nds her way into a lesbian bar, and much to her There have been few fi lms ever made that have been relationship continues with meals and conversation. surprise, she sees the blue-haired woman she saw briefl y as emotionally raw and honest about love, sex and On the way to meet him one day, she sees a woman on the street. human attraction as this one is. with blue hair with her arms around another woman. She finds out her name is Emma (Léa Seydoux), Because there is no real narrative to the film, the She instantly catches Adèle’s eye, even among the and the two have a long conversation at the bar. Right viewer is asked to completely invest in the characters. crowd in the bustling city street. Adèle continues dating away, they both can tell they have a connection. They her boyfriend, and like many teenage relationships, begin seeing each other as friends, but their relationship BLUE • 6 6 Monday, February 3, 2014

BLUE • Cont. from 5 lines and react naturally being voyeuristic because together. The film is a a straight male director is follow us Most of the film is shot character study that is so leering at the private life in medium close-up with @thegamecock invested in its characters of these woman. hand-held cameras giving that it truly feels like real However, the director is the film a spontaneous life is unfolding. capturing the intellectual, power. The viewer almost The actresses are emotional and physical becomes a part of the committed to their connection the two relationship because of its performances, and they women have for each intimacy. The film does pour their souls onto other, and the sex scenes not seem to be made to the screen. Some of the are an essential piece of satisfy an audience or tell a most emotional scenes are the rest of the film. The conventional story. Some hard to watch because the scenes of lovemaking, as of the conversations go on characters’ intensity is so graphic as they are, are for much longer than they palpable and fi erce. Much vital in creating the bond would in most fi lms, and has been made about the between Adèle and Emma. the characters pause and explicit sex scenes in the “Blue Is the Warmest glance like actual people film that earned it the Color” is as awe-inspiring do. NC-17 rating. and cinema-redefi ning in Kechiche let the They are graphic, its intimacy as Alfonso actresses read his script but everything was Cuarón’s “Gravity” is in only once and wanted simulated. Some people its grandeur. them to forget their have criticized the fi lm for It is one of the cinema’s best love stories, regardless of the characters’ sexuality. There are moments and images in the film, glimpses into other lives, that are as beautiful and moving as anything ever put on screen.

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A strong fi rst half helped the South Carolina women’s basketball team earn its 20th win of the season on Sunday, a 78-62 victory over Missouri as well as fi rst place in the SEC. Sophomore guard Tiffany Mitchell scored 20 points to go along with nine rebounds and four steals in the win. Along with Mitchell, sophomore point guard Khadijah Sessions was active on the defensive end with four steals of her own, along with 13 points and six assists. Turnovers were an issue for the Tigers (14-8, 3-6 SEC) in the fi rst half. They gave up 13 while South Carolina had only three. The Gamecocks (20-2, 8-1 SEC) scored 23 points off turnovers in the fi rst half. “In the second half, when they got going, I thought just having to play exhaustive basketball in the fi rst half really helped us hold on to get this win,” coach said. Sessions set the tone early with a nice dish off to junior forward Aleighsa Welch for a layup to give South Carolina a 13-5 lead with less than 15 minutes remaining in the fi rst half. Sophomore guard Asia Dozier hit a three a few minutes later to push the lead to 18-7. Dozier fi nished with 11 points and four assists on the night. Missouri fought back to make it 23-17 with a little more than eight minutes to play in the fi rst half after sophomore guard Morgan Stock’s three-pointer. Starting at the 6:45 mark in the fi rst half, the Gamecocks went on a 23-6 run to close out the half. Free throws and freshman center Alaina Coates’ inside presence helped build South Carolina’s fi rst half lead to 23 points at halftime with a 48-25 score. Coates fi nished the day with 13 points, fi ve rebounds and four blocks. The Gamecocks held the advantage in points in the paint on the day, with 36 to Missouri’s 16. “I think we took advantage of our post players once again,” Mitchell said. Jeff rey Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK “We knew they were going to sag off Guard Tiffany Mitchell led South Carolina with 20 points in the win over the Missouri Tigers on Sunday; she also logged nine pretty hard on us and we still tried to rebounds and four steals. She said that the historical signifi cance of winning 20 games in one season is not lost on her. execute and get the ball inside.” In the second half, the Tigers were in the bonus with more than 13 of the game. This is the third consecutive No. 16 Vanderbilt on Sunday to help minutes to play. That helped spark a Missouri’s leading scorer, senior season in which South Carolina has push the Gamecocks into the SEC’s 15-5 run by the Tigers to start off the forward Bri Kulas, had 21 points on reached 20 wins after the program had top spot. Mitchell and Dozier said second half, cutting South Carolina’s the night, but did not get much help struggled for years to reach that mark. they realize that the team has a target lead to 13 points with the score at from her teammates besides junior The improvement has led many on its back now, but that they also 53-40. guard Morgan Eye, who chipped in of Staley’s peers, including Missouri understand the progress the program A couple of minutes later, Mitchell with 14 points. coach Robin Pingeton, to praise the has made over the past few years. hit from beyond the arc to push the “Defensively, I think we executed South Carolina coach. “I think we understand the history lead back up to 18. our game plan, taking away their “Especially where South Carolina of the program and how far we’ve Aside from a fl urry of missed free strengths for the most part, closing has come from, I hope to be one of the come,” Mitchell said. “So we’re just throws (they shot 9-for-14 in the out hard and not giving up any model programs that you could look at thankful to get to these 20 wins second half), things went relatively uncontested three-pointers,” Dozier to see how we built it,” Staley said. already.” smoothly for the Gamecocks the rest said. No. 17 Texas A&M narrowly lost to DG Gamecocks lose rematch against Rebels Men’s basketball squanders But star guard Marshall Henderson wasn’t as easy to control, leading the double-digit lead in 2nd half way for the Rebels with a team-high Danny Garrison 21 points. [email protected] “Give (Henderson) credit now,” Martin said. “He’s a good player.” Henderson is averaging the third- South Carolina was riding high most points in the SEC, with 19.2 per heading into its rematch at Ole Miss game. on Saturday. The Gamecocks were South Carolina has had a measure fresh off their fi rst conference win and of success in rematches this season, eager to challenge a Rebel team that winning its second matchups with they lost to by a single point earlier in Akron and Texas A&M, but the trend the season. was broken Saturday in Oxford, Miss. But South Carolina (8-13, 1-7 SEC) “Frank was implicating that it’s couldn’t channel that energy into a always good to play a team a second win Saturday, falling 75-71 in another time that beat you the first time,” nail-biter against the Rebels (15-6, 6-2 Williams said. “So that kind of SEC). motivated us.” Much like the first meeting with In the Gamecocks’ next matchup, Ole Miss, the Gamecocks held a on Wednesday, they will take on a double-digit lead in the contest that Courtesy of MCT Campus Senior guard Brenton Williams scored a game-high 23 points in the loss at Ole Miss. team that they haven’t seen yet this the Rebels would chip away at until it season, Auburn. disappeared. In its fi rst six SEC contests, South One factor that contributed to three highest totals on the team, a for the foreseeable future after ankle Carolina left each game on the losing South Carolina’s slowed momentum statistic that coach Frank Martin said surgery, all three will look to increase end of the scoreboard. And after was its missed shots in the second half. is a testament to the growth of South their contributions. earning their first conference win The Gamecocks shot 56 percent in Carolina’s backcourt. “I’ve just got to give credit to my over Texas A&M, things seemed to be the fi rst period, but in the second half, “They’ve been pretty good,” Martin teammates for helping me pick my looking up for the Gamecocks. they shot just 37.5 percent. said. “Those three guys have been in spots and get open,” Notice said. But Martin said that whether The Gamecocks were led by 23 tune with one another and continue to “I’ve been working diligently with expectations were negative or positive points from senior guard Brenton play better.” the coaching staff where I can get my heading into the game with the Rebels, Williams, who was followed closely by Thornwell, Williams and Notice shots throughout the game.” a loss is a loss. freshman guard Sindarius Thornwell, are the Gamecocks’ fi rst, second and Ole Miss’s leading scorer from their “If we were 6-0 and we got beat, I’d who scored 20 points. fourth leading scorers, respectively. first matchup with the Gamecocks, have been miserable,” Martin said. “I With freshman Duane Notice’s nine And with the team’s No. 3 scorer, Anthony Perez, was held in check with can’t pay attention to the record.” points, the three guards turned in the junior guard Tyrone Johnson, sidelined just seven points in the game. DG