If the South Carolina women’s basketball team is apprehensive about Saturday’s Sweet 16 game against Quinnipiac, the players weren’t showing it.
Fully at ease in a press conference Friday, A’ja Wilson and Kaela Davis started riffing about Dawn Staley’s candy habit. It started with a question about wise words from legendary Standford coach Tara VanDerveer quickly spiraled out.
Q. Years ago, Tara VanDerveer would snap a rubber band on her wrist as a player at Virginia; whenever she would make a mistake of any kind and snap herself with that rubber band. Does that surprise you ladies at all, and are there any little quirky things she does now, all these years later as a coach that crack you up?