South Florida's Courtney Williams doesn't need to start to bend the NCAA tournament to her will. Benched for the first five minutes of No. 6 South Florida's game against No. 11 Colorado State for what was reported only as a nebulous "coach's decision," ending a streak of 81 consecutive starts by the nation's 12th-leading scorer, Williams still finished with 31 points in a 48-45 win.
That's right, Williams scored 65 percent of her team's points. When Drake's Lorri Bauman set the NCAA tournament record with 50 points in 1982, it represented 64 percent of her team's points. When Sheryl Swoopes scored 47 points in 1997, it was 56 percent of her team's total.