Gonzaga Bulldogs vs South Carolina Gamecocks Point Spread Picks

South Carolina has a look of a team that has caught fire at the right time, and has a star player that is taking over games. Wind back the clock to the 2010-11 season when UConn won five straight games in their conference tournament, and then ran the table in the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies accomplished this after finishing the regular season on a woeful 4-7 run. South Carolina finished at 3-6 before the Tournament started, and has run off four in a row. Like the Kemba Walker-led Huskies, the Gamecocks have been led by SEC Player of the Year Sindarius Thornwell. Thornwell is averaging 25.8 points per game, and 7.5 rebounds per game in the tourney to go along with eight steals. The Gamecocks also apply a smothering defense that has hampered all their opponents. Gonzaga has a great team with a lot of depth, but this team seems to struggle at times offensively. Against the best defensive team they have seen in the tournament, they managed just 61 points vs. West Virginia. The fact is that they have not seen a lot of great defenses this season, and they are going to struggle in this one. South Carolina looks like a team of destiny, getting big output from their star, and playing a smothering defense. Take South Carolina and the UNDER.