Weather impacts force South Carolina-LSU women’s basketball game to move dates
The No. 2 South Carolina women’s basketball team’s highly anticipated matchup with No. 5 LSU will have to wait another day.
The game, initially scheduled for Thursday at 8 p.m. in Colonial Life Arena, will now be played on Friday at 5 p.m. ESPN will broadcast the game as planned, but the “College GameDay” show will no longer be part of the broadcast.
The game date was moved because of travel issues facing the LSU team, a release from the SEC said. The areas in southern Louisiana received as much as 10 inches of snow Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
All tickets for the matchup will be honored on Friday, according to South Carolina.
The USC men’s basketball game at 7 p.m. Wednesday (SEC Network) is still on as scheduled.
South Carolina typically plays conference games on Thursday and Sunday. Luckily for Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks, their next game at Tennessee isn’t until Monday, Jan. 27. So the LSU game change’s impact is likely minimal.
Friday’s matchup between South Carolina and LSU will be the first time the two have faced each other since the 2024 SEC Championship game. The Gamecocks came away with a 79-72 victory that day, but the game’s final moments featured an on-court altercation that resulted in several players being ejected. South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso was ejected for fighting, the entire LSU bench was ejected, and everyone on USC’s bench minus Sania Feagin and Te-Hina Paopao were ejected.
LSU leads the all-time series vs South Carolina 22-20, but the Gamecocks have won the last 16 matchups against the Tigers.
This story was originally published January 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM with the headline "Weather impacts force South Carolina-LSU women’s basketball game to move dates."
