It’s been a pet peeve since before I started being around the team every day.
They’re not the Lady Gamecocks. “Lady” isn’t written anywhere on that uniform, that court or that locker room. They were once upon a time – and once upon a time, they were the “Chicks” – but that went out with double-knit leisure suits.
Some teams adopt that term as their official nickname. Tennessee is the Lady Vols, Louisiana Tech the Lady Techsters. But putting “Lady” in front of a women’s team just because they’re women is inaccurate.
South Carolina’s women’s basketball team is the Gamecocks.