Unlike last year’s Missouri women’s basketball game at South Carolina, there were no brawls, no trash-talk and as of Monday night, no lawsuits.
Instead, the 19th-ranked Gamecocks (13-5, 4-2 SEC) blew out the No. 25 Tigers (15-5, 4-2 SEC) 79-65 in a game that was never really competitive.
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley sued Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk for defamation after last year’s game, when Sterk went on the radio and accused her of promoting an racist and hostile atmosphere and added that MU’s players were cursed at and spit on. The game led to a number of ejections after a few players left the bench during an on-court skirmish.