The Oklahoma Sooners almost have to have Raegan Beers to have a chance of upsetting No. 2 South Carolina on Sunday.
The No. 13 Sooners will travel to South Carolina at 2 p.m. CT Sunday for a top-15 SEC women's basketball matchup. OU is coming off back-to-back conference wins for the first time this season, while the Gamecocks have won 12 games in a row since suffering their only loss of the season to No. 1 UCLA.
If there's any chance for the Sooners, though, they'll need to be at full strength, and will certainly need their best player. OU center and leading scorer Raegan Beers injured her left shoulder last Sunday in the Sooners' win against Texas A&M. She left in the third quarter and never returned in the blowout while sitting on the bench with an ice pack on her left shoulder.
Beers averages a team-high 16.5 points and 8.8 rebounds in her first season with the Sooners after transferring from Oregon State.
Beers started for OU on Thursday against Missouri but played only a season-low 10 minutes in the win. That might have been to save Beers for Sunday, though.
The SEC availability report that was released Saturday evening listed Beers as probable. The report also stated South Carolina will be without Ashlyn Watkins.
That's good news for Sooner Nation, with a probable status for Beers and no other Sooner on the report meaning OU should be at full strength for its toughest game of the season.