Ha oh yeah. Their Sweet 16 loss to Syracuse year.
Yep. Miss St. Bulldog fans have been commenting on how slow their team has been starting games this season - our team in 2015-16 was like that. We had come close the year before in 2014-15 during Wilson's freshman year where we lose to Notre Dame by 1-2 pts in the Final Four, with the ball in our hands taking the final shot. Most Gamecocks fans felt the team the next season was a better team, and for 95% of that season they played like it, despite all the slow starts. They finished games very strong.
We started that NCAAT sluggishly as well, even in the 1st and 2nd RDs that ultimately were blow-out wins. Against Syracuse, they came out with their hair on fire, and we again started slow, and they ran away with the game. We played better as the game progressed, but they never let off the gas, and ran away and hid from us. It sort of feels better these years later that Syracuse kept on their beastly pace right to the championship game until they ran into a stone wall there, but at the time it was a hard loss to digest.
Of course, the next season in 2016-17 made things better....
