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Kamilla Cardoso scored 17 factors and TeHina Paopao added 15 on Sunday to assist topranked South Carolina maintain off No. 11 Utah 7869 on the Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase.
UNCASVILLE, Conn.: Kamilla Cardoso scored 17 factors and Te-Hina Paopao added 15 on Sunday to assist high-ranked South Carolina maintain off No. 11 Utah 78-69 on the Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase.
Freshmen MiLaysia Fulwiley and Chloe Kitts every added 11 for the Gamecocks (9-0), who’ve crushed 4 ranked groups this season.
Alissa Pili made 15 of her 23 photographs from the ground and completed with 37 factors for Utah (8-2).
South Carolina led for all however 43 seconds in the course of the sport, however led by simply seven factors on the half and 5 after three quarters.
Pili helped Utah reduce the result in two factors on a number of events, however South Carolina all the time responded with a run.
It was nonetheless a 5-level lead with 3 1/2 minutes left when Pili hit a fall-away within the lane over Cordoso to make it 69-65. A layup by Dasia Young the following time down the ground reduce the result in 69-67.
But Utah couldn’t recover from the hump and South Carolina scored 9 of the sport’s remaining 11 factors.
Utah’s 6-foot-2 star Pili had 21 first-half factors, however picked up her third foul on an offensive display screen with slightly below 5 minutes to play within the half.
Utah had received six in a row since falling by seven factors to Baylor on Nov. 14.
BIG PICTURE
Utah: The Utes had been enjoying their second sport with out junior guard Gianna Kneepkens, who was averaging over 17 factors a sport earlier than breaking her proper foot in opposition to BYU final weekend. She is out for the season.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks got here in giving up simply 50 factors per sport and held Utah 27 factors beneath its season common.
UP NEXT
Utah visits Southern Utah on Saturday.
South Carolina hosts Presbyterian on Saturday.
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