ESPN College GameDay announces South Carolina's Dawn Staley as Week 3 celebrity guest picker

ESPN College GameDay isn’t going far for this week’s celebrity guest picker for the South Carolina vs. LSU game. Gamecocks women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley has been selected as the guest picker, College GameDay announced.

Dawn Staley has built the South Carolina women’s basketball program into one of the best in the nation. The Gamecocks have won three national titles under Staley, including this past season when they went undefeated, beating Iowa for the title.

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Staley posted a message through the ESPN College GameDay Twitter account after being announced as the guest picker.

“Hey, what’s up Gamecock fams,” Staley said. “I heard you. I saw you on social media asking me to be the guest picker on College GameDay. Well guess what, when you speak, people listen. So I want to thank you for choosing me to be the guest picker on College GameDay.

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“I’ll be out there at Gamecock Park, 9 a.m. I need to see you out there, because we’re going to blow this thing out. We’re going to make sure that they know who we are, what we do. And make sure our football team feels you. We need this win. Come start it off at Gamecock Park, College GameDay. Let’s go, and let’s go Gamecocks.”

Dawn Staley makes sense as the celebrity guest picker as she is a basketball legend. As a player, she was a two-time National Player of the Year, the Most Outstanding Player in the 1991 NCAA Tournament, a six-time WNBA all-star and a three-time gold medalist.

As a coach, Staley has turned South Carolina into a premier program in the country. The Gamecocks have reached the Final 4 six times under Staley, winning three national titles, eight regular season SEC titles and eight SEC Tournament titles.

She has also been named the Naismith Coach of the Year four times.

South Carolina hosting ESPN College GameDay came as a bit of a surprise. The game wasn’t on anyone’s radar as far as a potential host site, before the Gamecocks pounded Kentucky in Week 2.

In fact, College GameDay was rumored to be heading to Lexington for the Wildcats matchup with Georgia, before South Carolina put together a dominant win.

South Carolina enters the matchup 2-0 after beating Old Dominion and Kentucky, while LSU is 1-1. The Tigers opened the season with a loss to USC, before responding by beating Nicholls this past week.

This is the first time College GameDay has been in Columbia in a decade.