Women's Basketball opens up postseason play with their SEC Tournament first round game vs. #12 seed Ole Miss tonight at 7:30 PM ET. South Carolina's fifth seed in the SEC Tournament is its highest since the 2002-03 team also drew the No. 5 slot. Read the full game notes here.The team plans to leave their hotel in Nashville (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel) at approximately 4:40 PM Central time. At that time there will be a team sendoff with the band and cheerleaders as the team heads to the arena. Hope to see all of our fans in Nashville make it to the send-off and of course to the game to cheer on our Gamecocks!
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For those not in Nashville, you can watch tonight's game live at 7:30 PM ET on FSN. Here in Columbia the game will air on SportSouth (Time Warner channel 21). Check your local listings for channels. You can also listen to the radio broadcast on WISW 1320 AM or on GamecocksOnline.com All-Access. Live streams of the weekend's games will be available at SEC Tournament Central.
South Carolina's 2011 "SEC Great" will be honored at halftime of tonight's game. One of the all-time greats in SEC Softball, Kim Pietro was a first-team All-American and SEC Player of the Year for her senior season in 1999. Also a CoSIDA first-team Academic All-American that season, Pietro hit .419 with five home runs and 40 RBI while leading the Gamecocks to their second SEC Eastern Division crown. A three-time first-team All-SEC selection, Pietro also made three appearances on the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Pietro ranks among the top 10 in Gamecock softball history in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs batted in and walks. Each great will be honored during halftime of their respective school's first game of the SEC Tournament. All 12 individuals will also be honored as a group between games of the second session on Friday, March 4. The Greats will then participate in an autograph session on the concourse before game eight on Friday evening. Complimentary posters of the greats will be available at the session.
Good luck to Women's Basketball tonight, go Gamecocks!!
- Brittany Lane
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