Nelly Perry and Donyiah Cliney grew up fewer than 100 miles apart, but to hear them say it, they were in completely different worlds.
The redshirt senior guards for South Carolina women’s basketball are both from New Jersey, with Cliney living in Newark, near New York City, and Perry in Camden, near Philadelphia.
In a place with as little land as New Jersey — it’s the fourth smallest state by area and roughly a quarter the size of South Carolina — the difference between the northern and southern parts of the state may not seem like much.