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BOXSCORE | RECAP
South Carolina 60, Mississippi 58
When: 9:30 PM ET, Thursday, March 12, 2015
Where: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee
Officials: # Patrick Adams, # Lee Cassell, # Joe Lindsay
Attendance: 15032

South Carolina 60, Ole Miss 58: Tyrone Johnson made three free throws with 0.7 seconds left after being fouled on a desperation 3-point try to lift the 11th-seeded Gamecocks to a wild win in the second round of the SEC tournament in Nashville, Tenn.

Jarvis Summers gave the No. 6 seed Rebels a 58-57 lead with a dramatic four-point play with 3.3 seconds to go before Johnson raced upcourt and drew contact on the arm from LaDarius White before calmly sinking all three at the line to deliver a blow to Ole Miss' NCAA Tournament chances. Michael Carrera scored 16 points, Duane Notice had 15 and Sindarius Thornwell added 10 - all in the second half - for South Carolina (17-15), which meets No. 3 seed Georgia in Friday's quarterfinals.

White hit 4-of-6 3-pointers en route to 17 points for the Rebels (20-12), who shot a season low-tying 30.2 percent from the floor. Summers had 15 points on 3-of-10 shooting while leading scorer Stefan Moody scored eight on a 3-of-15 effort.

The Rebels fell behind by nine points early in the second half but rallied from the line to offset a stretch of more than 10 minutes without a field goal, taking a 52-51 lead on Moody's 3-pointer with just over two minutes to go. Thornwell answered with a three-point play and had a go-ahead layup with 41 seconds left, but South Carolina missed 3-of-4 foul shots in the closing seconds to allow Ole Miss to hang around, and Moody found Summers in the corner for what looked like the game-winning sequence.

Summers scored on the first shot before the Rebels went cold, falling behind 20-13 with less than five minutes left in the first half. Summers' three-point play sparked a burst and Mississippi was within three points at the break but a 3-pointer by Duane Notice early in the second half kicked off a 10-2 run that put the Gamecocks up 39-30.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The teams combined to shoot 16-of-52 in the first half. ... The Rebels were 19-of-23 from the line and had a 44-33 rebounding advantage but were hurt by 21 turnovers. ... South Carolina swept a pair of meetings with Georgia during the regular season.
Top Game Performances
 
South Carolina   Mississippi
Michael Carrera 16 Scoring LaDarius White 17
Tyrone Johnson 5 Assists Stefan Moody 3
Laimonas Chatkevicius 7 Rebounds M.J. Rhett 7
Duane Notice 6 Free Throws Made Jarvis Summers 8
Michael Carrera 3 Steals Sebastian Saiz 2
N/A Blocks Dwight Coleby 2
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
South Carolina 60 30.4 6-20 20-28 8 31 0 12 13
Mississippi 58 30.2 7-20 19-23 10 41 5 5 21