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AUSTIN, Texas -- Aja Wilson didnt feel any pressure, just the call of responsibility. With teammate Alaina Coates hampered by foul trouble, Wilson took over.Wilson scored a career-best 31 points and had 12 rebounds and four blocks to help No. 3 South Carolina beat No. 14 Texas 76-67 on Thursday night in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.Wilson, a junior, scored nine points in the fourth quarter. Kaela Davis added 12 points, and Tyasha Harris had 10 for the Gamecocks (6-0). Coates scored just six points, nearly 11 fewer than her average, in 22 minutes.??Its kind of tough when your partner is in foul trouble, Wilson said. But you have to let the game come to you, and thats what it did today.Kelsey Lang had 15 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks for Texas (2-3), but spent much of the game in foul trouble, some of it incurred while guarding Wilson.I definitely need to play smarter on defense and not put myself in the position where I have to come out of the game because of fouls, Lang said.Ariel Atkins added 14 points for Texas, and Joyner Holmes had 11.Texas led by two points late in the third quarter. But South Carolina finished the period with a 10-2 run, helped along the way by five straight missed free throws by Texas.The Longhorns hit just 7 of 14 free throws, while South Carolina hit 30 of 40.We did some things we set out to do, we just didnt manage the foul game at all, Texas coach Karen Aston said. Thats a discipline thing. We talk a lot about moving your feet for that one last step, boxing out after youve made them take a hard shot. You have to finish that play.Wilson, a 6-foot-5 all-America forward, scored 18 points in the first half, two fewer than her previous season best for an entire game.South Carolina shot 17 free throws in the half, 15 more than Texas. Six Longhorns picked up two fouls apiece in the half. Even so, they went to the locker room trailing by only 33-30 after a 3-point basket by Brooke McCarty late in the half.Texas led by two points late in the third quarter. But South Carolina finished the period with a 10-2 push, helped along the way by five straight missed free throws by Texas.Then Wilson went back to work, scoring seven points before the fourth quarter was half completed. Wilson converted 12 of 18 field goal attempts and 7 of 11 free throws working against a big Texas team.I thought it was a great college basketball game, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. We were both trying to fight and claw to get a win.BIG PICTURESouth Carolina: The Gamecocks are 3-0 against teams ranked in the top 15. This game was more difficult than the other two, when they beat Ohio State by 12 before crushing Louisville by 24. South Carolina limited McCarty, the Longhorns leading scorer, to seven points, nine fewer than her average. In their previous game, the Gamecocks held Louisville star Asia Durr to seven points fewer than her average.Texas: The Longhorns are 0-3 against teams in the top 15, but they were more competitive this time. They lost at Stanford by 12 and at Mississippi State by 11. Jada Underwood, a reserve wing player for Texas, missed the game against South Carolina because she is under concussion protocol for an injury she suffered in practice. Underwood, a freshman, averages 5.8 points in 12.3 minutes a game.POLL IMPLICATIONSNo. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Connecticut won this week and remain undefeated, so movement by South Carolina is unlikely unless it loses at Duke on Sunday.UP NEXTSouth Carolina is at Duke on Sunday.Texas faces No. 2 Connecticut on Sunday in Uncasville, Connecticut. Air Max Scontate Online . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. Air Max Vendita Online . General manager Jarmo Kekalainen told Aaron Portzline of The Columbus Dispatch on Friday that he wants to see Gaboriks contributions go beyond the scoresheet before considering a long-term deal for the soon-to-be unrestricted free agent. http://www.italiaairmax.it/ . Walcott is available for Saturdays home match against Southampton as Arsenal looks to extend its two-point lead at the top of the Premier League. The Gunners are currently the second highest scorers in the league but Wenger insists Walcott will add something extra to his team. Air Max Outlet Online Italia . Reigning world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland opened with a 12-2 rout of Winnipegs Jennifer Jones in a battle of teams bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Scarpe Air Max In Offerta . The formidable trio of Canadian receivers -- individually known as Chris Getzlaf, Rob Bagg and Andy Fantuz -- will share the field at Mosaic Stadium one more time on Sunday. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Martha Ruether climbed out of the pool and listened to the crowd cheering, basking in the moment.The visually impaired swimmer had finished second in her preliminary heat of the 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Paralympic trials Thursday, just about the same time that, a 10-minute drive away, competitors were racing for a spot on the American roster in the 200 meters on the track at Johnson C. Smith University.For the first time, the U.S. Paralympic trials in three sports -- track and field, swimming and cycling -- are being held simultaneously in the same city. Ruether likes the idea.I think its really cool, and its a really helpful experience for the Paralympics to have it be such a big thing, so people notice it, said Ruether, from Allegany, New York. When we come to meets like this and its just swimming everybodys like, `Oh, look at the special swimmers, its a little meet, but when they have this with cycling and track, its a big thing.Generating excitement both within the Paralympic community and the wider sports world is a big part of organizers plan. The United States has historically paid relatively little attention to the Paralympics.Julie ONeill, managing director of the Paralympics for the U.S. Olympic Committee, said the idea of hosting the three major trials in one city has been bouncing around since the 2012 Olympics.It just didnt come to fruition based on timing and circumstances going into London, ONeill said. When we went to schedule trials, the three sports got together and talked about it again and made the decision to go for it.For ONeill, Charlotte was an easy choice. The city has the resources to handle the more than 400 athletes who will make it to the starting line this week, she said.Its been great, she said. Everybody local here in Charlotte has been 110 percent helpful, whether its in the specific venues or different organizations around town that weve been working with.For the athletes, hosting all three trials in one city provides a sense of community and presents an opportunity to catch up with old friends and watch them compete.One athlete, Mary Cooper of Los Angeles, both swims and does the long jump.Ive only gone to competitions where theyre separate, and so its usually llike Ill have a swim sort of family and a track family, too, Cooper said.dddddddddddd To combine them is really cool.Doug Youngblood, who spearheaded the local bid to host the trials, said the original fundraising goal was around $200,000. The committees job was made slightly more difficult since there is no precedent for hosting all three trials in one city.Were kind of learning and finding out what weve got to spend as we go, Youngblood said. Without any history, we didnt know what we were getting into and what it was going to cost altogether. We just dug in and started doing it.The fees for the venues were waived, but fundraising efforts still came up nearly $25,000 short.The biggest problem we had with it from the beginning was raising awareness, Youngblood said. A lot of people we talked to didnt know the difference between Paralympics and Special Olympics.Partners for Parks, a local nonprofit led by Youngblood, was aiming to use that money to fund the closing ceremonies on Sunday, as well as to provide a post-competition meal for athletes.The Charlotte Hornets charitable foundation, led by Michael Jordan, stepped in with a $10,000 donation to help fill the cash shortage, while others picked up the rest.Ian Silverman, a gold medal Paralympic swimmer and world record-holder, was impressed by the gesture.Its truly something special that the Charlotte Hornets organization would be able to do that, Silverman said. To have a sports figure like Michael Jordan back us like that, its definitely a step in the right direction.Joshua George, a five-time Paralympic medalist in wheelchair racing, hopes that the trials-fest will encourage more people to attend. The crowd at the track Thursday was modest -- made up mostly of competitors friends, coaches and relatives.We just have countless amazing athletes in Charlotte right now competing. Everyone should come out and see it, George said. Theyre doing themselves a disfavor if theyre not.---Allison Gasparetti is a journalism student at Penn State. Penn State and Georgia are partnering with The Associated Press to supplement coverage of the 2016 Paralympics. ' ' '