In roughly two months, the wildly talented, highly decorated, much hyped, No. 1 ranked recruiting class for South Carolina women’s basketball will officially arrive on campus and get to work.
(That’s not counting ESPN’s No. 10 overall prospect, Laeticia Amihere, who enrolled a semester early after a knee injury ended her senior season)
Initially, this group of freshmen was supposed to come in and face stiff competition for playing time with a long list of returners. Now, the youngsters might be pressed into larger-than-expected roles, after four Gamecocks entered their names in the transfer portal last week, including a pair of likely starters in Te’a Cooper and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan.