Halfway through SEC media day on Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee, South Carolina women’s basketball showed up, and things got a little more ... relaxed.
While most players and coaches from other schools sat quietly at their assigned tables, looking bored or patiently long-suffering, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley and her star players, forward A’ja Wilson and guard Tyasha Harris, came in laughing. Wilson heckled Staley as media members pressed around her. Harris and Wilson danced around the room with posters emblazoned with their faces. Wilson videobombed Staley’s interview.
All in all, if the Gamecocks are feeling any pressure as the defending national champions, they did not show it in the slightest.