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Just one game into the 2025-26 season, the UConn women’s basketball already has a meeting with South Carolina on the schedule for 2027-28. The Huskies announced Wednesday that Gamecocks will come to Mohegan Sun Arena to play in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase on Nov. 24, 2026, and UConn will return the favor for a quasi home-and-home in Nov. 2027 when they travel to Charlotte, North Carolina for a matchup in the Ally Tipoff. The exact date of the game at the Spectrum Center is still to be announced. The Ally Tipoff was established in 2023-24 and will feature a matchup between No. 9 NC State and No. 18 USC this year on Nov. 9. The event announced games through 2028 on Thursday. UConn and South Carolina have gone head-to-head at least once year season since 2015, but the regular-season series is on a hiatus this year because of scheduling conflicts for the Huskies after the Big East expanded from 18 to 20 conference games. UConn leads the all-time series 11-5, and every meeting has been a top-15 matchup except for the first two in 2007 and 2008 when the Gamecocks were unranked. The Huskies ended a slump of four consecutive losses to the Gamecocks when they snapped South Carolina’s 71-game home winning streak with an 87-58 victory in Columbia last February. The teams faced off again in the NCAA Championship game in April, and UConn brought home its 13th national title with an 82-59 win over the 2024 defending champions. It was the second time the Gamecocks and Huskies had met in a national final after South Carolina delivered UConn its first-ever championship loss to win the title in 2022. The two programs have combined to win eight of the last 12 NCAA Championships.
