South Carolina women’s basketball is back in the NCAA tournament as a No. 2 seed, but the celebration at Williams-Brice Stadium was undercut slightly Monday by the reveal that the No. 7 Gamecocks will play in the Albany regional and presumably have to defeat No. 1 Connecticut to reach the Final Four.
For the past three years, there has been a regional in Lexington, Kentucky, just out of the 350-mile radius the NCAA considers driveable, but close enough head coach Dawn Staley and many others have felt that’s where USC should be so fans can come support the team.