The first home game Tiffany Mitchell played in at South Carolina drew a total 2,912 fans.
About 18,000 - many of them already in their seats - will be in attendance tonight as the Gamecocks host UConn in a showdown of the nation's No. 1 and 2 ranked teams.
"When I first got there, we didn't win a lot of games so people didn't really come to the games because we continued to lose," Mitchell said. "Once we started to win games, we got people in here who wanted to see us play so that kind of turned around for us, we started winning.