South Carolina advances to Final Four | What to know
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For the third straight year, Dawn Staley and South Carolina are headed to the Final Four. Here are a few things you should know before they take off for Dallas.
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- Monday’s win against against Maryland was USC’s 36th of the season. That’s a new program record, edging out last year’s mark of 35 wins.
[Subscribe to Gamecock Central until Aug. 31 for only $29.99!] - In what was likely her final game in the state of South Carolina, Aliyah Boston scored 22 points to go along with ten rebounds. This marks her 82nd career double-double as a GamecocKs, which extends her record for most double doubles in program history. She also added five assists in the win.
- South Carolina’s trip to Dallas will mark the fifth time in program history that they’ll be playing in the final four. For this senior group, they make up more than half of those appearances with three, despite losing an opportunity to play in one with the 2020 NCAA Tournament being cancelled due to COVID-19.
[Subscribe for free to Gamecock Central’s YouTube page for more South Carolina content] - That brings us to to what has already been an impressive stat that continues to grow. As this senior group improved to 128-8.
Next up for USC, is Caitlin clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday night at 9.
South Carolina women’s basketball’s Director of Net Cutting
By: Chris Wellbaum
If South Carolina wins its second consecutive national championship this weekend, the Gamecocks will get to cut down the nets sometime around 5:30 Sunday. If that happens, the most important person on the court will be Freddy Ready.
Ready’s tenure with the Gamecock women’s basketball program predates Dawn Staley’s arrival. He has filled a variety of roles and is currently the Director of Player Development. Unofficially, he is also the Director of Cutting Down Nets.
