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No. 6 South Carolina earns share of SEC title, gets No. 1 seed on coin flip

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Tessa Johnson scored 16 points, and the No. 6 South Carolina women's basketball team claimed a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship with a 78-66 victory over No. 15 Kentucky on Sunday.

No. 1 Texas defeated Florida 72-46 on Sunday, so the Longhorns and Gamecocks both finished 15-1 in conference play. Because the teams split the season series, a coin flip Sunday determined that South Carolina would have the No. 1 seed for this week's SEC tournament in Greenville, South Carolina.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey flipped the coin from Birmingham, Alabama, during halftime of LSU's game against Mississippi to determine the top seed.