Frank Martin’s South Carolina Gamecocks are having their best season in quite a while and are in line for their first NCAA Tournament invite in over a decade. While thinking about that the other day, I also began to reminisce about the last time USC had any semblance of sustained success, a three year stretch from 2003-2005 that resulted in an NCAA tourney berth and back to back NIT titles.
One of my favorite Gamecocks, Tre Kelley, was a point guard on those teams, as a freshman back-up in ’03 and as the starting point guard for the next three years.