COLUMBIA -- As ubiquitous as Stephen Garcia has been on the South Carolina sports map the past 20 months, it's easy to forget the Gamecocks quarterback has made one career start.

The coach left his mid-major program after a Sweet 16 appearance. He took over a dying men's basketball program in the SEC East, which many thought a hopeless task. The coach proved them wrong. Through the force of his personality and his up-tempo style of play, he made the team a winner. That coach was Bruce Pearl at Tennessee, who was hired four years ago. Someday, Darrin Horn hopes they say the same thing about him at South Carolina.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Tennessee has been picked to win a second straight Southeastern Conference men's basketball championship.

COLUMBIA -- Former Kentucky linebacker Wilbur Hackett Jr.'s latest hit might be his most popular of all.

COLUMBIA -- As he recapped what went wrong in the second half of South Carolina's loss to LSU, Gamecocks quarterback Stephen Garcia said he should have seen the Tigers' blitzes coming.

arrett Lee went 16-of-26 for 189 yards and LSU held South Carolina to minus-7 yards in the fourth quarter and the No. 13 Tigers beat the Gamecocks 24-17 on Saturday. LSU (5-1, 3-1 SEC) took the lead for good on Charles Scott's 2-yard touchdown run with 4:16 to go. It capped a grinding, 83-yard drive that took more than six minutes off the clock.

COLUMBIA -- The comparisons were inevitable but did not mean much until South Carolina receiver Jason Barnes started catching everything thrown his way.

COLUMBIA -- Stephen Garcia finally is doing what he came to South Carolina to do.

COLUMBIA -- Kenny McKinley's knowledge of Sterling Sharpe is hazy, like the black-and-white photo of Sharpe that looks down on the USC football team from a wall in the weight room.

COLUMBIA -- No tryouts. No controversy. No drama. Steve Spurrier has a starting quarterback at South Carolina -- at least for this week.