Over the past three years, South Carolina’s basketball programs, both men and women, have enjoyed historic success, with the men posting three straight winning seasons for the first time in nearly two decades and the women advancing to the Final Four in 2015 and winning a national championship in 2017.
The reasons for all that success are probably varied and arguable — top talent like A’ja Wilson and Sindarius Thornwell, good coaching from Frank Martin and Dawn Staley, strong fan support — but Martin himself offered a different idea Thursday, one that relates to the programs’ former home.