Dawn Staley took over at South Carolina when a couple thousand fans would come out to Colonial Life Arena in Columbia for women's games.
against Pac-12 competition with 10 against Oregon, seven against UCLA, and six each against Oregon State and Colorado.
Staley noted that the “energy in the building” helped, as well as playing in front of 16,000 a week ago in Connecticut. The fans made it difficult for LSU with supportive noise as well as pregame boos. Yet, UConn competed with this team until the end. Stanford did as well, taking the Gamecocks to overtime in November and nearly upsetting them if not for their own miscues at the end. UCLA and Mississippi State also came within single digits. LSU could not, and on Sunday, it was in large part because the Tigers almost immediately gave the national champs 16 points to preserve until the end. South Carolina, with the experience of doing so, did.
Their scoring output is up 19% and defensively they’re allowing 12% fewer points. Their net rating nearly flipped from -13.6 to 17.3. They have wins against everyone below them in the Big Ten as well as against Iowa in January and Michigan State. Playing within the conference as well as they have will only make them better and a more difficult out in March.UConn’s 22-point blowout of NC State in November was a shrug.
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