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South Carolina banking on balance and depth in title game
CLEVELAND — With 47 seconds left in the third quarter of Friday night’s national semifinal against NC State, South Carolina slings the ball around the perimeter. It ends up in transfer guard Te-Hina Paopao‘s hands. She launches a 3-point shot, and the Gamecocks’ bench players stand and cheer with their arms in the air as […]
Continue readingSouth Carolina glad for chance to avenge 2023 loss to Iowa
South Carolina guard Raven Johnson, however, said she has rewatched the Gamecocks’ only defeat last year about a hundred times. Once again, the Gamecocks (37-0) are undefeated heading into Sunday’s rematch against Iowa for the national championship (3 p.m. ET, ABC). Once again, star guard Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes stand in South Carolina’s way. […]
Continue readingIowa, South Carolina meet again with title, history on line
CLEVELAND — Caitlin Clark chucked the ball into the air as the buzzer sounded in the 2023 national semifinals, clinching her Iowa Hawkeyes’ 77-73 upset win over the South Carolina Gamecocks. At the time, the result was shocking: The Hawkeyes had handed the Gamecocks their first loss of the season and advanced to the program’s […]
Continue readingHow South Carolina beat Iowa in women’s 2024 NCAA title game
CLEVELAND — As the final buzzer sounded, South Carolina completed its “revenge tour,” beating Iowa 87-75 to win the national championship and denying Caitlin Clark a title of her own. The highly anticipated rematch of last year’s national semifinals delivered drama, energy, intensity and, yes, lots of points from Clark. But it was South Carolina’s […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2024-25
The landscape of women’s college basketball is going to look very different when November arrives and the 2024-25 season begins. Caitlin Clark will be gone. So will Angel Reese. The Pac-12 will be no more. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will be in the Big Ten. Oklahoma and Texas will be calling the SEC home. […]
Continue readingHow Raven Johnson, South Carolina cooled off Caitlin Clark
CLEVELAND — With confetti falling all around her on the championship stage, Raven Johnson finally exorcised the feelings of humiliation and defeat she couldn’t let go. “All I have to say,” she belted into the mic to the cheering South Carolina crowd inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, “is the revenge tour is over!” In Sunday’s 87-75 […]
Continue readingSources: Patriots, Kyle Dugger agree to four-year, $58M deal
The New England Patriots and safety Kyle Dugger have agreed to a four-year extension, sources told ESPN on Sunday. The contract has a base value of $58 million and can be worth up to $66 million and includes $32 million guaranteed, the sources said. Dugger’s new deal has an average annual value of $14.5 million. […]
Continue readingSouth Carolina looks to finish job after falling short last year
CLEVELAND — South Carolina was in this very spot one year ago — undefeated, ranked No. 1, the favorite to run the table and win a national championship. But a loss to Iowa in the semifinals knocked the Gamecocks out, and the sting of that loss has stayed with the players who experienced it. South […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Time for South Carolina to worry?
ALBANY, N.Y. — Just 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the third quarter of Friday’s Sweet 16 game, South Carolina looked like it was embarking on another women’s NCAA tournament runaway. The Gamecocks had opened up a 22-point lead on an Indiana team that seemed to be barely hanging on. But the Hoosiers had plenty left. […]
Continue readingRaven Johnson’s clutch 3 lifts South Carolina past Indiana
But Dawn Staley said she looked at point guard Raven Johnson and saw something else. “I knew she wasn’t gonna let us lose,” Staley said of Johnson, whose critical 3-pointer with under a minute left helped the No. 1 overall seed Gamecocks survive a huge rally by No. 4 seed Indiana. The Gamecocks won 79-75 […]
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