Dawn Staley’s South Carolina basketball program is one of, if not the, best programs in all of college basketball. The Gamecocks produce more pros than any other team in the country in recent years, and that was best illustrated during April’s WNBA Draft when five different South Carolina basketball alums were selected to join the top women’s professional league in the world.
Aliyah Boston (1st-overall to the Indiana Fever), Laeticia Amihere (1st-round pick of the Atlanta Dream), Zia Cooke (1st-round choice of the Los Angeles Sparks), Brea Beal (2nd-round selection of the Minnesota Lynx), and Victaria Saxton (3rd-round draft pick of the Indiana Fever) all were drafted and joined a league that was already littered with former South Carolina Gamecocks.