They weren’t needed for South Carolina’s easy first-round NCAA tournament win over Belmont, but their absence from the floor still had Gamecock fans asking — where were Bianca Cuevas-Moore and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan on Friday?
The senior guard and junior forward both rank in the top five on the Gamecocks in minutes per game, both have started more than 15 games and both warmed up and looked healthy during the pregame activities at Halton Arena.
But neither played for the first half of USC’s blowout 74-52 win. Herbert Harrigan only entered the game with 3:09 left in the third quarter, when the outcome already seemed certain, and Cuevas-Moore didn’t play at all.