Vanderbilt basketball will be the No. 12 seed in the SEC tournament and will face No. 13 seed Texas on Wednesday, a Commodores spokesperson confirmed. The Commodores (20-11, 8-10 SEC) finished tied for ninth in the league with Mississippi State,

This is unlikely to push Vanderbilt out of the NCAA Tournament completely. But the Commodores haven't looked in the last two games like a team that could put a scare into top seeds in March, and the problem becomes magnified if MJ Collins and Grant Huffman, who missed Saturday's game with injury, can't return soon.

Out of the media timeout, South Carolina closed the game on a 16-0 run to pull away from Vanderbilt. Gamecocks junior Chloe Kitts sparked the run with seven straight points for her team, part of a season-high 25-point outing. South Carolina moves on to the SEC semifinals while Vanderbilt awaits their seeding for the NCAA Tournament.