Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...by WILL FOLKS***The University of South Carolina men’s basketball team suffered its worst-ever conference loss – and the worst-ever defeat in its home arena – on Wednesday evening (January 28, 2026). “If Lamont Paris has a job tomorrow morning, we will know how unserious we are about winning,” one Gamecock fan wrote on X. “Lamont Paris has to go.”At one point on Wednesday night, Paris was trending on X – and not in a good way. South Carolina tips off again on Saturday at home against unranked LSU ( 13-8, 1-7 SEC ). Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina.