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No. 1/1 Women’s Basketball preview: SEC Tournament Championship
03.09.2025 | Women's Basketball
#1/1 Texas (31-2, 15-1 SEC) vs #5/5 South Carolina (29-3, 15-1 SEC)
Game 34 | SEC Tournament Final
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. Central
Bon Secours Arena | Greenville, South Carolina
GameDay Quick Facts
TELEVISION: The game will be nationally televised on ESPN. Ryan Ruocco (pxp), Rebecca Lobo (analyst) and Holly Rowe (reporter) are on the call.
RADIO: All women's basketball games will air in Austin on 103.1 FM, along with the web streams on TexasLonghorns.com. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will call the action.
Complete game notes:
https://texaslonghorns.com/documents/2025/3/9/GameNotes_Texas_SouthCarolina.pdf
Notables
• CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS: In their first year in the SEC the Longhorns captured the regular season championship. Texas beat every team in the conference on the way to a 15-1 regular season record. It marks the fourth straight season Texas has won a regular season or conference tournament championship.
• CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES: Texas has advanced to four straight conference tournament championship games. They did so 2022-24 in the Big 12 and now in their first year in the SEC. Head coach Vic Schaefer is one of five head coaches that has advanced to six SEC championship games. Schaefer advanced to the SEC championship game in each of his last five seasons at Mississippi State and now this season at Texas.
• 30 WINS: For the 13th time in program history Texas women's basketball has reached 30 wins for a season. It's the first time since 1986-87 and 1987-88 that Texas has recorded 30+ wins in back-to-back seasons.
BOOKER PLAYER OF THE YEAR, SCHAEFER COACH OF THE YEAR: In the awards voted on by the SEC head coaches Madison Booker was selected the SEC Player of the Year and Vic Schaefer was selected the SEC Coach of the Year. For Booker it is her second straight conference player of the year honor, as she was named the 2024 Big 12 Player of the Year. For Schaefer it was his sixth conference coach of the year award in his career. Schaefer, the 2018 Naismith National Coach of the Year is on the 2025 Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year watch list.
• RANKED WINS: The Longhorns won their 10th game of the season against an AP-top 25 team and sixth win over an AP-top 10 team with their win over No. 9 LSU. Texas became the first program in 20 years to win three straight games over top-10 teams. Texas is second in the country for most quad one wins with 12. Texas has wins over 13 teams that are in the AP-top 25 or receiving votes this week.
• HONORS FOR HARMON: Rori Harmon was recently named to the watch list for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year as well as a top-5 finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award. Harmon became the first player in Texas women's basketball history to reach 1,200 points and 600 assists. Last time out Harmon reached 700 career assists.
