COLUMBIA — One more victory, and South Carolina’s quest to return to the women’s Final Four moves to a place known less for basketball than the Badlands and the Black Hills. But the gateway to a regional on the wide prairie of South Dakota is one last game in the warm embrace of their home arena, a place where the Gamecocks have proven close to invulnerable.
WHO: No. 1 seed South Carolina (32-1) vs. No. 9 seed Kansas State (19-12)
WHEN: Sunday, 7 p.m.
NEXT: Winner advances to regional play beginning Friday in Sioux Falls, S.