Jeff Goodman recently released his preseason breakdown of the top 50 college basketball teams for the ’20-’21 season. The Gamecocks just cracked the list, landing at No. 49.
This is the second preseason list that Frank Martin’s squad has landed on, after analyst Jon Rothstein ranked the Gamecocks as the nation’s No. 38 team going into next season. South Carolina also made the field in Joe Lunardi’s earliest Bracketology projection for the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
The Gamecocks finished last season at 18-13 (10-8). They were set to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in the SEC Tournament before the Coronavirus effectively shut down the college basketball postseason.