If not for a lackluster performance against the Mississippi State Bulldogs yesterday, the South Carolina Gamecocks would have been in very good shape in their quest for their first outright SEC title since 1997: Kentucky ended up falling to Vanderbilt and couldn't move a game clear of Texas A&M for the top spot in the conference. A win would have put the Gamecocks in a three-way tie with two games to go and in possession of the tiebreaker by virtue of a win over the Aggies. (All three teams would have shared a 1-1 record in a "mini-conference" against each other - the SEC's first tiebreaker - but the Gamecocks would win the second tiebreaker thanks to their win over A&M).
South Carolina can still clinch SEC men's basketball regular season title, but...
