TAMPA, Fla. — Once again, South Carolina is playing in a national championship game. And once again, head coach Dawn Staley is fielding questions about the impending legacy of an opposing star’s elusive title while her program chases its own history.
“I can't not address it because it's happening,” Staley said on Saturday. “It happened to us last year. Everything was about Caitlin Clark and her legacy and her ability to win a national championship. Yet, we were coming into this thing undefeated, doing something that's unprecedented at the time, because it's hard. It's hard. We find ourselves back here in a similar situation.