ALBANY, N.Y. — Dawn Staley questioned if No. 1 overall seed South Carolina was playing its best basketball heading into and during the SEC tournament earlier this month.
“We weren’t just clicking on both sides of the basketball,” Staley said Thursday ahead of the Sweet 16 at MVP Arena. “There were spurts of it, but when we had a little bit of time to practice between the SEC tournament championship and then our first round, we did a lot of rest, but then when we got back from our break, we just really honed in.”
The only undefeated squad in the country (34-0) locked in after two weeks off to the tune of a 99-point winning margin over their first two games of the tournament.