For its 2018-2019 nonconference schedule, South Carolina women’s basketball will face a gauntlet of national powerhouses, potentially including every NCAA championship winner from 1995 onward, the team announced Monday.
Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks will open with an exhibition contest at Colonial Life Arena against Lander on Nov. 2, then kick off the regular season on the road against Alabama State, which is coached by Freda Jackson, mother of USC sophomore guard Bianca Jackson, on Nov. 11.
After that, South Carolina returns home to host in-state rival Clemson, then Big Ten power Maryland, who has won three conference titles in four years and made the NCAA tournament 14 times in the last 15 years.