After last night deceptively dominant 80-64 win over Wyoming, head coach Frank Martin continues to be frustrated with the inconsistency of his team’s guard play.

As the season progresses, the guards' inconsistency has to be corrected if the Gamecocks (7-2) want to mimic last year’s run in postseason play.

This is something that the Gamecocks have been working on in practice this week.

“It’s still not good," Martin said. "We’re not gonna fix something that I allowed to go wrong in two days. It’s gonna take time. We will fix it."

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After a tough couple of practices this week, graduate transfer Frank Booker said, “We want practice to be harder than games…We’re trying to get better for when March comes.”

One major thing to improve on is shooting, as the Gamecocks shot under 50 percent for the game and just 36.4 percent in the first half.

“We just didn’t make shots," Booker said.

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Off the bench David Beatty, Wes Myers and Kory Holden were a combined 0-for-9, while starting point guard Hassani Gravett shot 50 percent and Booker scored 16 points on 6-for-10.

While Martin admitted to some improvement in the first half, he stated that the team reverted to their old ways for the second half of play.

“We didn’t guard the second half,” he said.

The Gamecocks allowed 25 points in the first half and 39 in the second.

“We got lucky in the second half,” Martin said when talking about the decline of the Gamecock defense throughout the game.

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The Gamecocks have a new team that needs to learn how to play well together in Martin’s system. The most experienced player, Chris Silva, has only been in the program two years. None of the guards have been in the program more than one year.

“Every game I get more and more comfortable,” Booker said. “I’ll be there when my team needs me.”