Ten hours before midnight on New Year’s Eve and Frank Martin was in casual wear. No suit, no tie. Just a garnet quarter-zip and black pants.
The South Carolina basketball coach wasn’t his typical animated self during USC’s 97-46 rout of North Greenville on Monday afternoon at Colonial Life Arena. Perhaps it was the nature of the opponent (Division II) or the urgency he sensed from his team.
The Gamecocks (5-7) will not enter the SEC portion of their schedule on a five-game losing streak. Carolina came off a good stretch of post-Christmas practices with a dominating performance over an inferior foe.