With the game tied at 47, No. 9 South Carolina turned on the pressure, forcing five Georgia turnovers in the backcourt over the next 3 1/2 minutes as the team went on an 11-2 run to lead 58-49.

No. 22 Georgia had a chance to cut South Carolina's lead to two with 30 seconds left, but Ebony Felder's layup rolled off the rim.

South Carolina's win is the team's seventh in the Southeastern Conference, a new school record.

Camille Murphy led Georgia (15-7, 4-6) with 15 points. Kara Braxton added 14, and Felder pulled down 11 rebounds.

Jocelyn Penn had nine steals and scored 10 points for South Carolina (19-3, 7-2). Petra Ujhelyi and Cristina Ciocan each added 12 points.

The press had already saved the Lady Gamecocks once. Georgia, trailing 30-26 at the break, started the second half on a 14-2 run and took a 40-32 lead with 16:00 left.

After Jocelyn Penn's short jumper, South Carolina started pressing. The Lady Gamecocks got a quick turnover and Shaunzinski Gortman hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 40-37.

Georgia turned the ball over 14 times in the first half. But the Lady Bulldogs stayed in the game by drawing fouls, shooting 10-of-13 on free throws, while South Carolina never went to the line in the first half.

The win keeps South Carolina in second place in the SEC. The Lady Gamecocks have never finished better than sixth in the league.

Georgia is tied for seventh place in the SEC and is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994.

No. 3 Tennessee 93, Arkansas 65
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Kara Lawson scored a career-high 30 points, including 19 in the second half as third-ranked Tennessee pulled away from Arkansas for a 93-65 victory Thursday night.

Reserve Michelle Snow added 13 points and Shyra Ely 11 before fouling out for the Lady Vols (19-2, 8-1 Southeastern Conference). Shameka Christon led Arkansas with 17 points, including five 3-pointers, while Dana Cherry added 16 and Cara Wright 10 for the Lady Razorbacks (13-9, 4-6).

Arkansas led 10-6 early but even their tough defense couldn't keep Tennessee from scoring.

Tennessee, which lost over the weekend to Vanderbilt, stretched its halftime lead of 40-29 with an 11-2 run to start the final 20 minutes. Lawson made back-to-back baskets to start the surge, and Tasha Butts' basket two minutes later gave the Lady Vols a 51-31 lead.

Arkansas didn't let up and used tough defense in a 10-0 run to cut the lead to 53-43 with 13:08 left. But the Lady Razorbacks got no closer.

Ely scored three baskets to push the lead back to 16 points a minute later as Arkansas couldn't stop Tennessee in transition. She committed her fifth foul with 7 1/2 minutes remaining.

Christon made the pair of free throws to reduce the lead to 12 points, but Lawson scored twice to put the Lady Vols back ahead 71-55 with 6:12 to go.

Another 3 by Lawson sealed it with four minutes left.

Lawson was 10-of-17 from the field, made 3-of-4 3-pointers and missed just one of eight free throw attempts. She also had seven rebounds.

The Lady Vols led at halftime despite 11 turnovers and poor shooting early. Tennessee made just five of its first 14 shots from the floor and turned the ball over seven times in the first 9 1/2 minutes.

The Lady Vols finished with 20 turnovers.

Both teams were in the bonus early with 22 personal fouls called in the first half, 40 total for the game. Arkansas coach Gary Blair didn't think highly of the officiating and was called for a technical with 13:45 left in the first half.

Then when Cherry was called for a charge later, Blair dropped to the floor to show his disgust.

Arkansas cut the lead to 17-16 with 8:21 left before halftime, but Tennessee scored eight quick points to start a 15-5 run.

Alabama 92, No. 25 Mississippi State 86
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- LaNisha Cartwell had 19 points and six rebounds, and Alabama overcame 33 points by LaToya Thomas in a 92-86 victory Thursday night over No. 25 Mississippi State.

The Crimson Tide (14-8, 4-5 Southeastern) had three other players in double figures and shot nearly 62 percent. Mississippi State (16-7, 7-3) also got 20 points from Tan White.

Its was coach Rick Moody's 267th career victory, tying him with former men's coach Wimp Sanderson for the most in Alabama basketball history.

Shondra Johnson added 18 points, Beth Vice 17 and Katie Sipe 12 for the Crimson Tide.

Alabama, which led by just two points at halftime, finished up making 34-of-55 shots.

LSU 76, Auburn 62
BATON ROUGE, La. (AU Sports Information) -- Auburn dropped a 76-62 decision to LSU at the Peter Maravich Assembly Center Thursday. The loss dropped the visiting Tigers to 14-9 overall and 2-8 in league play while LSU improved to 13-7 and 6-4, respectively.

Auburn led by nine at the half 37-28 as the Tigers went on a 22-5 run in the final nine minutes. Sophomore Le'Coe Willingham had 10 points and seven rebounds in the opening 20 minutes as Auburn shot 50 percent from the field.

But the Tigers went cold in the second half after getting out an 11-point lead as the team shot just 31 percent after the break and was outscored 48-25 by an LSU team that shot 54 percent from the field in the second half. For the game, LSU hit 46 percent of its shots while Auburn made 40 percent of its shots.

Doneeka Hodges led the LSU comeback effort in the second half by nailing all four of her 3-point attempts after the break for the Bengal Tigers. LSU was 0-10 behind the arc in the first half while Hodges was 0-6.

Hodges led all scorers with 21 points with 19 of those coming in the second half while Willingham led Auburn in scoring with 14 points and nine rebounds. It was the seventh consecutive game in double figures for Willingham. Junior LaKeisha Johnson, a Baton Rouge native, added 11 points and nine rebounds for Auburn while freshman Nicole Louden added 11 points off the bench for the Tigers.

LSU clawed back into the game in the opening eight minutes of the second half behind the sharp shooting of Hodges, who gave the Bengal Tigers the lead back at 52-49 with her third 3-pointer of the half at 11:23 mark. Both teams battled back and forth for the next 5 minutes until Louden scored five straight points for Auburn to give the Tigers a 57-54 edge, but the home-standing Tigers closed out the game with their own 22-5 run.

Sophomore Tameka Johnson, who finished with 12 points and 13 assists, gave LSU the lead back for good at 58-57 as the Bengal Tiger point guard built her team's lead up at the free throw line. She made five straight free throws late in the second half as her team went 16-23 from the line after the break. Auburn was just 3-4 from the line in the final 20 minutes.

Mississippi 76, Kentucky 66
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- Von Kirk scored 24 points and hit five 3-pointers and Sherika Wright had 18 points as Mississippi defeated Kentucky 76-66 on Thursday night.

All of Kirk's field goals were 3s and she was 5-for-7 from behind the arc.

LaTonya McDole and SeSe Helm each scored 20 for Kentucky (8-15, 1-9 Southeastern Conference).

Carletta Brown scored 12 points and had four assists for the Lady Rebels (11-12, 3-7), who shot 46 percent from the field -- 52 percent in the second half.

The Lady Wildcats made 57 percent of their shots in the high-scoring second half.

Ole Miss outscored Kentucky 44-40 in the second half.