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03/11/2010 - Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mikhail Torrance scored 17 points to help Alabama rally for a 68-63 win over South Carolina in the first round of the SEC Tournament.
Justin Knox had 16 points and seven boards while JaMychal Green added 10 points and seven boards for the Crimson Tide (17-14), who advanced to play top-seed Kentucky on Friday.
Devan Downey had a game-high 21 points and eight rebounds and Ramon Galloway added 14 points for the Gamecocks (15-16), who ended the season with seven losses in eight games.
The Tide trailed by as many as 18 points early in the second half, but cut their deficit to four points when pair of free throws from Knox made it 57-53 with a bit over 5 1/2 minutes to play.
Two free throws from Downey was countered by one from Knox. Galloway then stole the ball off of Tony Mitchell, but Downey's jumper missed and Torrance hit two from the line with just over three minutes to play.
Following a Brandis Raley-Ross turnover, Knox put in a layup and another Ross turnover resulted in a Mitchell layup to give Alabama a 60-59 lead with 2:03 to play.
A missed jumper from Downey was converted into two points at the other end for Alabama on a Torrance layup, but Galloway tied the game with a three-ball from the left side with 1:14 to play.
Torrance gave his team the lead back with a jumper with 55.3 to play and Downey missed at the other end.
Downey ripped the ball away from Senario Hillman and went to the line with a chance to tie the game with 18.3 seconds to play, but he only hit the second shot to make it a one-point contest.
After the timeout, the Crimson Tide got the ball in bounds and a long pass down the other end saw Green get the ball and put in with 9.5 seconds to play.
A lazy in-bounds pass from Sam Muldrow was then intercepted and Mitchell's two free throws sealed the win.
The game was tight through the first several minutes and Alabama led near the midway mark of the first half as Knox's layup made it a 14-12 game.
Muldrow, though, put in a layup and followed that with a slam to spark an 8-0 run as Downey's layup gave the team a six-point lead.
The Tide got the game back to one point a few minutes later, but South Carolina closed the frame on a 13-3 run and took a 38-27 lead into the locker room.
South Carolina built its lead to 18 on a Lakeem Jackson layup which made it a 54-36 game with under 12 minutes to play.
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NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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