By PETE IACOBELLI, AP Sports Writer
February 4, 2007

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Sylvia Fowles felt lucky to beat South Carolina. That's not how the LSU star wants her team to keep winning.

Fowles had 23 points and 20 rebounds to lift the seventh-ranked Lady Tigers to a 49-46 victory over the Gamecocks on Sunday. But Fowles knows she and her teammates have a lot of work ahead if they hope to compete in the Southeastern Conference.

"I think it was a lucky game," Fowles said. "We have to do much better than we did tonight."

The Lady Tigers (21-3, 7-2) sure didn't look like a club that has won 30 or more games three times in the past four seasons and challenged Tennessee, Georgia and Vanderbilt for the SEC title. LSU shot a season-worst 27.6 percent (16-of-58) and was held to its lowest point total of the year.

Fowles seemed to be everywhere the Lady Tigers needed her when the game was on the line. Fowles made eight of 12 field goals, but her biggest points may have been her final two from the free throw line when the Lady Tigers were up 45-44 with 1:40 to go.

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