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This is what they came here for.
While the Mississippi State Bulldogs hope their third time playing South Carolina this season will be the charm, the Gamecocks hope it leads to their first-ever national championship.
A'ja Wilson and the Gamecocks headed to the locker room down 29-20, but they didn’t panic. They’d been there before.
In five games against Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, Dawn Staley had never won.
Significant attention has been paid to South Carolina's local products Sindarius Thornwell, PJ Dozier and Justin McKie and their opportunity to lead their childhood team on college basketball's biggest stage.
Despite trailing by nine points at the half, coach Dawn Staley and the South Carolina women’s basketball team are heading to the national championship for the first time in program history.
Under the floodlights of March, national attention has fallen on Przemek Karnowski, Gonzaga's 300-pound bearded bear, and Sindarius Thornwell, South Carolina's senior leader who is averaging 25.8 points per game in the NCAA Tournament.
Dawn Staley may be a Tara VanDerveer disciple, but you wouldn’t know it from comparing Staley’s Gamecocks to VanDerveer’s Stanford Cardinal.
When the South Carolina locker room opened Thursday, there wasn’t the usual crowd around the Gamecocks’ All-American center. She wasn’t there.
The South Carolina men's and women's basketball teams have drawn support from their fan bases all season long. But advancing to the Final Four and playing in the national spotlight has brought about increased attention from various celebrities.
The last time Dawn Staley faced Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer in the 1990 Final Four, she was sporting a Virginia uniform and sneakers.
It’s only been two years, but a lot sure has changed.
After injuries, close games and much adversity, the South Carolina women’s basketball team is grateful to find itself back in the Final Four for the second time in three years.
In an October press conference, long before this Cinderella season even began, coach Frank Martin sat in front of a group of reporters in Williams Brice stadium. Admittedly, he was tired, as his team had just finished one of their first real practices of the season. Yet he fielded all of the reporter’s questions on his team, offering insight that, when looked at now, shows just how accurate he was in predicting the future of this team.
A Yankee transplanted from the shores of Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, I remember driving with my dad down Gervais Street in a rented Chevy Impala the day before my orientation. I had never spent a night in Columbia.
As college basketball fans nationwide have learned in the last few weeks, there’s much more to Frank Martin than the tenacious, borderline terrifying demeanor he shows on the basketball court. He came from nothing, but accepted no handouts as he earned his spot on the game’s biggest stage.
A consistent offensive performance, along with a lockdown defensive display, was enough for the Gamecocks as they won their Elite Eight matchup against the Florida State Seminoles on Monday night.
One Final Four berth is good, but two is certainly better.
Just like he's always dreamed, Frank Martin cut down the net at Madison Square Garden Sunday with Frank Sinatra booming through the arena. Five years after coming to South Carolina, Martin and the Gamecocks have climbed the mountain, reaching the Final Four for the first time ever.
South Carolina natives Sindarius Thornwell, PJ Dozier and Justin McKie grew up with Gamecock men’s basketball.