The floor at Carolina Coliseum has hosted some all-time basketball greats since it opened in 1968.
On Friday morning, the list of prestigious visitors to the Gamecocks’ training facility got substantially longer, as Dawn Staley hosted her first Team USA training camp in Columbia.
Among the 22 players at the training camp, which will run though Sunday, there are four-time Olympic gold medalists Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, historically great WNBA players like Maya Moore and Angel McCoughtry, and recent NCAA stars like Kelsey Plum and Jewell Loyd.
But for South Carolina fans, the most important players participating in the camp were there for the first time – former Gamecock stars Tiffany Mitchell and Allisha Gray.