COLUMBIA — The way Frank Martin looks at it, South Carolina’s basketball team doesn’t have five starters — it has seven. Two of them just happen to come off the bench. And through a pair of games, at least, one of those is the Gamecocks’ leading scorer from last season.
Duane Notice remains the most explosive scorer on USC’s roster, but the junior guard came off the bench in the two home games which opened the 2015-16 campaign. The production, though, hasn’t dipped — Notice is averaging 16 points per contest, second on the team entering Friday’s game against DePaul to open the Paradise Jam tournament in the U.