The 2019–20 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach, Frank Martin, was in his eighth season at South Carolina. The team played its home games at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 18–13, 10–8 in SEC play to finish in a tie for sixth place. They were set to take on Arkansas in the second round of the SEC tournament. However, the remainder of the SEC Tournament and all other postseason tournaments were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previous season The Gamecocks finished the 2018–19 season finished the season 16–16, 11–7 in SEC play to finish in a tie for 4th place. As a No. 4 seed in the SEC tournament, they lost in the quarterfinals to Ole Miss.

Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Hassani Gravett 2 G 6'1" 188 RS Senior Villa Rica, GA Graduated Tre Campbell 4 G 6'2" 183 GS Senior Washington, D.C. Graduated Felipe Haase 13 F 6'9" 253 Sophomore Osorno, Chile Transferred to Mercer Evan Hinston 23 G 6'4" 240 Junior Deltona, FL Left the team for personal reasons Chris Silva 30 F 6'9" 234 Senior Libreville, Gabon Graduated/Undrafted in 2019 NBA draft Jason Cudd 33 F 7'1" 263 Sophomore Myrtle Beach, SC Transferred

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Micaiah Henry 13 C 6'9" 235 RS Senior Decatur, GA Tennessee Tech Seventh Woods 25 G 6'2" 185 Senior Columbia, SC North Carolina

2019 recruiting class

2020 recruiting class

Preseason SEC media poll The SEC media poll was released on October 15, 2019.

Media poll 1 Kentucky 2 Florida 3 LSU 4 Auburn 5 Tennessee 6 Alabama 7 Mississippi State 8 Ole Miss 9 Georgia 10 South Carolina 11 Arkansas 12 Texas A&M 13 Missouri 14 Vanderbilt

Roster

Schedule and results

!colspan=12 style=|Exhibition

!colspan=12 style=|Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=| SEC regular season

!colspan=9 style=| SEC tournament |- style="background:#bbbbbb" | style="text-align:center"|March 12, 20209:30 pm, SECN | style="text-align:center"| (6) | vs. (11) ArkansasSecond round | colspan=5 rowspan=1 style="text-align:center"|Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | style="text-align:center"|Bridgestone ArenaNashville, TN

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