导出博客文章COLUMBIA, S.C. -- No. 3 South Carolina finished off three cruise-control wins on
its home court. Things wont be so easy next time against No. 4 Louisville.The
Gamecocks (4-0) routed St. Peters 93-38 on Tuesday night in the Basketball Hall
of Fame Womens Challenge. Alaina Coates has 16 points as all five South Carolina
starters finished in double figures and handed the Peacocks (0-4) their 19th
straight loss.Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley believes her program is ready for the
step up in competition.Its a great way to put our identity on the line, Staley
said. Its a good way to see where we match up with other great teams across the
country.The tests wont stop for the Gamecocks after Louisville. Theyll travel to
No. 14 Texas on Dec. 1, then close the road stretch at typically dangerous Duke.
Theres also a home game Dec. 18 against No. 9 UCLA.Kaela Davis, the Georgia Tech
transfer, scored 14 points, going 4-of-4 on three pointers. She said the teams
runaway wins over the past three days -- the Gamecocks topped Hampton 92-38 on
Sunday and Maine 79-42 on Monday night -- have helped the team develop flow and
revealed deficiencies to work on at practice.Obviously, with our three-game
stretch weve got coming up, we need to fine tune a lot of things, Davis
said.Davis got the Gamecocks off quickly with a 3-pointer from the right corner.
Allisha Gray and Bianca Cuevas-Moore also had early 3s and the Gamecocks led
13-2 four minutes in. Things trended South Carolinas way the rest of the
game.The Gamecocks were up 64-21 at the break, tied for third most points in a
half in program history.Aja Wilson had 14 points, Gray 13 and Cuevas-Moore 11 as
the starter spent most of the final two quarters on the bench cheering their
younger teammates.St. Peters coach Pat Coyle said the Gamecocks are hard for a
team like hers to stop. We talk about the peaks and the valleys. If youve got
good kids, you get out of the valleys quickly, which we do, she said. After
Thanksgiving, well regroup.Talah Hughes led St. Peters with 11 points, its only
double-figure scorer.THE BIG PICTURESt. Peters: The Peacocks had a terrible time
in Columbia, losing all three games by awful margins: to Maine, 59-43; to
Hampton, 71-42; and to the Gamecocks. St. Peters was out-rebounded by South
Carolina 27-7 in the first two quarters and committed 12 turnovers. They let the
Gamecocks shoot better than 68 percent in the first half. It looks like another
long season for the Peacocks.South Carolina: The Gamecocks showed they be
dangerous from the outside, too, to go along with their post success. Davis hit
all four of her first-half 3-pointers. All seven Gamecocks who took shots in the
first two quarters had a shooting percentage over .500. If South Carolina can
knock down outside shots, it will add to the effectiveness of 6-5 Wilson and 6-4
Coates down low.POLL IMPLICATIONSFor South Carolina, its simple: Beat Louisville
and stay No. 3 or higher. Lose to the Cardinals on Sunday and expect to slide
down a few notches.HOT SHOOTINGThe Gamecocks finished with season highs in field
goal shooting and three-point shooting. South Carolina hit 37 of 66 shots (56.1
percent) from the field while making 10 of 24 shots (41.7 percent) from behind
the arc.SHE SAID ITFor me, its about bringing these kids to experience this
environment. Were a mid-major and were not kidding anybody, Coyle said.UP
NEXTSt. Peters takes on Bowling Green on Sunday in Springfield,
Massachusetts.South Carolina faces No. 4 Louisville on Sunday in Springfield,
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tearing his left hamstring. LAS VEGAS -- The hook for Manny Pacquiaos latest
fight is that hes the fighting politician, as eager to take on problems in the
Philippines as he is to take on other welterweights in the ring.Unfortunately
for Pacquiao, at this stage of his career he needs a hook to sell his
fights.Pacquiao meets a likable but relatively unknown Jessie Vargas on
Saturday, with a piece of the welterweight title at stake. In the past that
might have been enough to excite boxing fans, but Pacquiao is aging and so is
his appeal.He probably should have retired after not showing up for the biggest
fight of his life against Floyd Mayweather Jr. He certainly should have retired
after getting elected to the senate in the Philippines, where hes an ally of
President Rodrigo Duterte.Yet he plods on, partly because he reportedly needs
the money. He got a few million dollars to fight Timothy Bradley in April but is
fighting on percentages against Vargas, so the sales pitch is
necessary.Pacquiaos longtime trainer, Freddie Roach, held out the possibility
this week of a rematch with Mayweather, saying he has been told that Mayweather
has been back in the ring sparring recently. But the first fight took five years
to make and it seems a stretch to think Mayweather would come out of retirement
to fight Pacquiao once again.Still, Roach says hes convinced Pacquiao has one or
two more big fights left in him.Mannys like the old Manny now, Roach insisted
after spending a month training Pacquiao in the Philippines. I like this Manny a
lot.To Pacquiaos credit he did look re-energized in April when he beat Bradley
in the third fight between the two men. It was his first fight since losing to
Mayweather, a loss he blamed on a bad shoulder that has since been surgically
repaired.But the fight with Vargas is a tough sell, which is why promoter Bob
Arum stacked the undercard with competitive fights and is selling tickets for as
little as $50. Arum is also selling the pay-per-view himself after HBO declined
to take part in the distribution of the fight, and Pacquiaos purse will largely
depend on how well it does.ddddddddddddnything north of 600,000 buys would be a
big night and hed make a lot of money, Arum said. Im hoping he makes money like
the Manny of old.Arum, of course, is way overestimating what the fight will do,
but his job as Pacquiaos promoter is to get people interested. Since Vargas is
not well known, its a difficult sell even with an attractive undercard.Pacquiao
is taking a familiar path for an aging fighter, trying to squeeze a few more
fights in before finally hanging up his gloves. Hes got the right to fight
whoever he wants, but fight fans also have the right to vote with their wallets
on the matchup.He is a champion (Vargas holds the WBO version of the
welterweight title) so you cant underestimate him, Pacquiao said. But I still
feel fresh and young.Vargas will be fighting in his home town and is taller than
Pacquiao. Hes also full of confidence after stopping Sadam Ali in March for the
WBO version of the 147-pound title.When I defeat Manny Pacquiao they will see
that I beat a good Manny Pacquiao who is still performing at the highest level,
Vargas said. Thats the Manny Pacquiao that I want to beat.The real problem for
Pacquiao isnt his opponent, though Arum could have easily put undefeated
Terrence Crawford in the ring against him instead of Vargas. Its that he turned
off a big portion of his fans in a stinker of a fight against Mayweather and
will probably never get them back.He used to sell a million pay-per-views
whenever he stepped into the ring. But he barely sold 300,000 for his fight
against Bradley, and this one doesnt figure to do any more.The fight features an
attractive undercard that includes Nonito Donaire against Jessie Magdaleno,
Oscar Valdez vs. Hiroshige Osawa, and Shiming Zou vs. Prasitsak Phaprom, all in
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