Coach Dawn Staley has South Carolina back where her team started the season: at No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll.
Coach Dawn Staley has South Carolina back where her team started the season: at No.1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll. The Gamecocks regained the top spot on Monday, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes from a national media panel. The Gamecocks will be tested right away; they visit No.2 UConn on Monday night in the 60th matchup ever between the top two teams in the poll. South Carolina, which originally fell from the top spot after losing to North Carolina State, looks to make it two straight wins over UConn after beating the Huskies for the first time in eight tries last season,70-52. “It is less pressure but more hunger,” Staley said Saturday. “To beat somebody at home is a little easier than beating them on the road. And I just hope we’re able to check that off the list and continue what UConn used to do to us: Link those wins together and don’t look back.
