On Selection Monday, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley repeated several times that when her team took the floor for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, it would look far different than the one that crashed out of the SEC tourney in stunning fashion, losing to underdog Arkansas 95-89.
On Thursday, a day before the fourth-seeded Gamecocks face off against No. 13 seed Belmont, she and her players detailed just how that will happen.
In the two weeks between the Arkansas loss and the Belmont game, USC has had its “most intense” practices of the season, several players said.