Georgia Falls at No. 1 South Carolina, 73-63

Sunday, February 26

Columbia, S.C.

12:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

20-10,9-7SEC

South Carolina

29-0,16-0SEC

Georgia

South Carolina

February 26, 2023 | Women's Basketball

Box Score Game Stats

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Georgia women's basketball fifth-year senior Diamond Battles scored 20 points to lead her team in a 73-63 loss to No. 1 South Carolina on Sunday at Colonial Life Arena.

Georgia ends the regular season having won five of its last six and seven of its last nine heading into March. The Lady Bulldogs are now 20-10 overall and will either be the sixth or seventh seed (depending on Sunday's results around the SEC) in this week's SEC Tournament.

The Lady Bulldogs hung with the Gamecocks for the second time this year. Georgia could not overcome South Carolina advantages of 42-24 in the paint, 31-19 at the free-throw line and 17-0 mark on second-chance points. The Gamecocks end the regular season undefeated.

In addition to Battles' sixth game over 20 points, Javyn Nicholson scored 14. Malury Bates added 10.

Aliyah Boston scored South Carolina's first four points in the game as the home team built an early 9-4 advantage. Javyn Nicholson knocked in back-to-back baskets to give Georgia a 17-14 lead midway through the first.

The Gamecocks closed the opening period on a 6-0 spurt, but Georgia kept it close and trailed by a 35-27 score despite shooting just 33 percent and going over six minutes without a field goal int eh first half.

That margin proved too much to overcome in the third and fourth quarters as South Carolina edged Georgia by a 41-33 advantage in the final 20 minutes.