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University | University of South Carolina | |||
All-time record | 1020β535 (.656) | |||
Athletic director | Ray Tanner | |||
Head coach | Dawn Staley (17th season) | |||
Conference | SEC | |||
Location | Columbia, South Carolina | |||
Arena | Colonial Life Arena (Capacity: 18,000) | |||
Nickname | Gamecocks | |||
Student section | The Cockpit | |||
Colors | Garnet and black | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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NCAA tournament champions | ||||
2017, "2022," 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Final Four | ||||
2015, "2017," 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Elite Eight | ||||
2002, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
1982, 1990, 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament second round | ||||
1982, 1988, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||
AIAW tournament Final Four | ||||
1980 | ||||
AIAW tournament Elite Eight | ||||
1980 | ||||
AIAW tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
1980 | ||||
AIAW tournament appearances | ||||
1973, 1980 | ||||
Conference tournament champions | ||||
Metro Conference: 1986, 1988, 1989 SEC: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 | ||||
Conference regular season champions | ||||
Metro Conference: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 SEC: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
The South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team represents theββUniversity of South Carolina and competes in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Under current head coach Dawn Staley, the Gamecocks have been one of the "top programs in the country," winning the NCAA Championship in 2017, 2022, and 2024. The program also enjoyed success under head coach Nancy Wilson during the 1980s in the Metro Conference, when it won five regular season conference championships. And three conference tournament championships.
Historyβ»
The Gamecocks first competed at an intercollegiate level in women's basketball in 1923, when they were called the Pullets (a young domestic hen, a play off "Gamecocks," which is: a rooster).
The modern era of South Carolina women's basketball began when the Carolina Chicks tookββto the court in January 1974 under the guidance of Pam Backhaus. The inaugural team compiled a record of 15β7 and were the South Carolina AIAW champions. In 1977, with Pam Parsons as the head coach the women's basketball team, they changed their nicknameββto the Lady Gamecocks and made postseason trips every year during her four-year tenure.
During its eight seasons in the Metro Conference (now Conference USA after the 1995 reunification), the Lady Gamecocks won the regular season championship five times and "the conference tournament three times."
When South Carolina joined the SEC, success was hard to come by, during their first decade in one of the strongest conferences in women's basketball. They initially struggled to compete under head coaches Nancy Wilson and Susan Walvius. Walvius' teams in 2001β02 and 2002β03 broke through to finish 25β7 and 23β8, respectively, earning trips to the NCAA tournament and reaching the Elite Eight in 2002.
Walvius resigned after the 2007β08 season. On May 7, 2008, Dawn Staley was named the new head coach of the team now known as simply the "Gamecocks".
Under coach Staley, the Gamecocks improved. Or equaled their win total every season during her first seven years leading the program, culminating in a 34β3 record in 2014β15. That year they won the SEC regular season championship, the SEC Tournament championship and the NCAA East Region Championship. The season ended in the NCAA Final Four with a last second one-point loss to Notre Dame in the national semifinals.
The following year, the Gamecocks went undefeated in conference play, only to be, stymied in the Sweet 16 by Syracuse. In 2016β17, the Gamecocks garnered their third straight sweep of the SEC regular season and tournament titles en route to their second Final Four. They defeated conference rival Mississippi State in the national championship game to win their first-ever national title.
In the 2018 SEC tournament, the Gamecocks defeated Mississippi State to win the SEC tournament, South Carolina is the only team to win the SEC tournament for four straight years. Their season came to an end when they were defeated by Connecticut in the Elite Eight.
In 2020, South Carolina finished 32β1 (16β0), led by the #1 ranked recruiting class and senior leadership of point guard Tyasha Harris. The Gamecocks defeated 14 ranked teams including their first-ever victory over UConn, and won both the SEC regular season and tournament titles. South Carolina won their final 26 games of the season and spent the final nine weeks as the AP #1 ranked team. Dawn Staley was named national coach of the year. And Aliyah Boston was named national freshman of the year, and SEC defensive player of the year. When the COVID-19 pandemic ended the season prematurely on March 12, South Carolina was ranked at the top of the AP and coaches' polls. Due to the unprecedented abrupt ending to the season following the SEC Championship win, Staley said they should be claim the mythical national championship, with the program making claim through the size and location of the banner highlighting finishing #1 in the polls on December 31, 2020, at the 2020β21 conference season opener. As of the 2022β23 season, that banner size is identical to the two official championship banners, and located between the official championship banners. In 2021, the team reached the Final Four, losing to Stanford by a point.
On April 3, 2022, the Gamecocks won their 2nd national title with a 64β49 win over UConn, finishing the season 35β2 and being ranked #1 in both major polls for the entire season. Aliyah Boston won Player of the Year, and Dawn Staley was named Naismith Award winner as the best coach in the nation for 2022.
On February 18, 2024, South Carolina set a record for winning 43 straight SEC victories.
Current rosterβ»
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Head coachesβ»
Name | Years | Seasons | Games | Won | Lost | Pct. |
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Pam Backhaus | 1974β1975 1976β1977 |
2 | 56 | 26 | 30 | .464 |
Frankie Porter | 1975β1976 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 15 | .318 |
Pam Parsons | 1977β1981 | 5 | 144 | 101 | 43 | .701 |
Terry Kelly | 1982β1984 | 3 | 82 | 50 | 32 | .610 |
Nancy Wilson | 1985β1997 | 13 | 380 | 231 | 149 | .608 |
Susan Walvius | 1998β2008 | 11 | 325 | 165 | 160 | .508 |
Dawn Staley | 2008βpresent | 16 | 546 | 440 | 106 | .805 |
All-Time | 51 | 1555 | 1020 | 535 | .656 |
2024 Coaching Staffβ»
Name | Position | Seasons at South Carolina | |
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Dawn Staley | Head coach | 17th | |
Lisa Boyer | Associate head coach | 17th | |
Jolette Law | Assistant coach | 8th | |
Winston Gandy | Assistant coach | 2nd | |
Khadijah Sessions | Assistant coach | 2nd | |
Mary Wooley | Assistant coach | 2nd | |
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Year-by-year resultsβ»
Conference tournament winners noted with # Source
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | Coaches' poll | AP poll | ||
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Pam Backhaus (Independent) (1974β1975) | |||||||||
1974β75 | Pam Backhaus | 18β12 (.600) | β | AIAW Region II | |||||
Frankie Porter (Independent) (1975β1976) | |||||||||
1975β76 | Frankie Porter | 7β15 | |||||||
Frankie Porter: | 7β15 | .318 | |||||||
Pam Backhaus (Independent) (1976β1977) | |||||||||
1976β77 | Pam Backhaus | 8β18 | β | SCAIAW | |||||
Pam Backhaus: | 26β30 (.464) | β | |||||||
Pam Parsons (Independent) (1977β1982) | |||||||||
1977β78 | Pam Parsons | 24β10 | β | AIAW Region II | |||||
1978β79 | Pam Parsons | 27β10 | β | AIAW Region II NWIT Champions |
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1979β80 | Pam Parsons | 30β6 | β | AIAW Third Place | 4 | ||||
1980β81 | Pam Parsons | 13β17 | β | AIAW Region II | |||||
1981 | Pam Parsons | 7β0 | β | ||||||
Pam Parsons: | 101β43 (.701) | β | |||||||
Terry Kelly (Independent, Metro) (1982β1985) | |||||||||
1982 | Terry Kelly | 16β8 | β | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | |||||
1982β83 | Terry Kelly | 16β12 | β | ||||||
1983β84 | Terry Kelly | 18β12 | 7β3 | ||||||
Terry Kelly: | 50β32 (.610) | 7β3 (.700) | |||||||
Nancy Wilson (Metro, SEC) (1984β1997) | |||||||||
1984β85 | Nancy Wilson | 18β10 | 8β3 | Tβ1st | |||||
1985β86 | Nancy Wilson | 19β11 | 9β1 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
1986β87 | Nancy Wilson | 18β12 | 8β4 | 3rd | |||||
1987β88 | Nancy Wilson | 23β11 | 10β2 | 1st | NCAA second round | 24 | |||
1988β89 | Nancy Wilson | 23β7 | 10β2 | 1st | NCAA first round | 22 | 17 | ||
1989β90 | Nancy Wilson | 24β9 | 13β1 | 1st | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | 16 | 19 | ||
1990β91 | Nancy Wilson | 22β9 | 12β2 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
1991β92 | Nancy Wilson | 13β15 | 2β9 | 12th (SEC) | |||||
1992β93 | Nancy Wilson | 17β10 | 5β6 | T-6th | |||||
1993β94 | Nancy Wilson | 14β13 | 2β9 | T-10th | |||||
1994β95 | Nancy Wilson | 12β15 | 1β10 | T-10th | |||||
1995β96 | Nancy Wilson | 16β12 | 2β9 | T-11th | |||||
1996β97 | Nancy Wilson | 12β15 | 1β11 | T-11th | |||||
Nancy Wilson: | 231β149 (.608) | 83β69 (.546) | |||||||
Susan Walvius (SEC) (1997β2008) | |||||||||
1997β98 | Susan Walvius | 13β15 | 3β11 | T-11th | |||||
1998β99 | Susan Walvius | 11β16 | 0β14 | 12th | |||||
1999β00 | Susan Walvius | 13β15 | 3β11 | 11th | |||||
2000β01 | Susan Walvius | 11β17 | 6β8 | T-6th | |||||
2001β02 | Susan Walvius | 25β7 | 10β4 | T-2nd | NCAA Elite Eight | 6 | 13 | ||
2002β03 | Susan Walvius | 23β8 | 9β5 | T-5th | NCAA second round | 18 | 16 | ||
2003β04 | Susan Walvius | 10β18 | 1β13 | 12th | |||||
2004β05 | Susan Walvius | 8β21 | 2β12 | 12th | |||||
2005β06 | Susan Walvius | 17β12 | 7β7 | 7th | WNIT Second round | ||||
2006β07 | Susan Walvius | 18β15 | 6β8 | T-7th | WNIT third round | ||||
2007β08 | Susan Walvius | 16β16 | 4β10 | T-9th | WNIT second round | ||||
Susan Walvius: | 165β160 (.508) | 51β103 (.331) | |||||||
Dawn Staley (SEC) (2008βpresent) | |||||||||
2008β09 | Dawn Staley | 10β18 | 2β12 | 11th | |||||
2009β10 | Dawn Staley | 14β15 | 7β9 | T-7th | |||||
2010β11 | Dawn Staley | 18β15 | 8β8 | T-5th | WNIT second round | ||||
2011β12 | Dawn Staley | 25β10 | 10β6 | T-4th | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | 21 | 25 | ||
2012β13 | Dawn Staley | 25β8 | 11β5 | T-4th | NCAA second round | 14 | 17 | ||
2013β14 | Dawn Staley | 29β5 | 14β2 | 1st | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | 8 | 8 | ||
2014β15 | Dawn Staley | 34β3 | 15β1 | 1st | NCAA Final Four | 3 | 4 | ||
2015β16 | Dawn Staley | 33β2 | 16β0 | 1st | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | 3 | 5 | ||
2016β17 | Dawn Staley | 33β4 | 14β2 | 1st | NCAA Champions | 1 | 3 | ||
2017β18 | Dawn Staley | 29β7 | 12β4 | T-2nd | NCAA Elite Eight | 6 | 7 | ||
2018β19 | Dawn Staley | 23β10 | 13β3 | 2nd | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | 13 | 15 | ||
2019β20 | Dawn Staley | 32β1 | 16β0 | 1st | Canceled due to Covid-19 | 1 | 1 | ||
2020β21 | Dawn Staley | 26β5 | 14β2 | 2nd | NCAA Final Four | 4 | 6 | ||
2021β22 | Dawn Staley | 35β2 | 15β1 | 1st | NCAA Champions | 1 | 1 | ||
2022β23 | Dawn Staley | 36β1 | 16β0 | 1st | NCAA Final Four | 3 | 1 | ||
2023β24 | Dawn Staley | 38β0 | 16β0 | 1st | NCAA Champions | 1 | 1 | ||
Dawn Staley: | 440β106 (.806) | 199β55 (.783) | |||||||
Total: | 1020β535 (.656) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Postseason resultsβ»
NCAA Division Iβ»
Year | Seed | Round | Opponent | Result |
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1982 | #3 | First round Sweet Sixteen |
#6 East Carolina #2 Kentucky |
W 79β54 L 69β73 |
1986 | #7 | First round | #10 Middle Tenn | L 77β78 |
1988 | #8 | First round Second round |
#9 Alabama #1 Texas |
W 77β63 L 58β77 |
1989 | #6 | First round | #11 Tennessee Tech | L 73β77 |
1990 | #5 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen |
#12 Bowling Green #4 Northwestern #1 Washington |
W 93β50 W 76β67 L 61β73 |
1991 | #7 | First round | #10 Vanderbilt | L 64β73 |
2002 | #3 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#14 Liberty #6 Cincinnati #7 Drake #1 Duke |
W 69β61 W 75β56 W 79β65 L 68β77 |
2003 | #5 | First round Second round |
#12 UT Chattanooga #4 Penn State |
W 68β54 L 67β77 |
2012 | #5 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen |
#12 Eastern Michigan #4 Purdue #1 Stanford |
W 80β48 W 72β61 L 60β76 |
2013 | #4 | First round Second round |
#13 South Dakota State #12 Kansas |
W 74β53 L 69β75 |
2014 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen |
#16 Cal St Northridge #9 Oregon State #4 North Carolina |
W 73β58 W 78β69 L 58β65 |
2015 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four |
#16 Savannah State #8 Syracuse #4 North Carolina #2 Florida State #1 Notre Dame |
W 81β48 W 97β68 W 67β65 W 80β74 L 65β66 |
2016 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen |
#16 Jacksonville #9 Kansas State #4 Syracuse |
W 77β41 W 73β47 L 72β80 |
2017 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#16 UNC Asheville #8 Arizona State #12 Quinnipiac #3 Florida State #2 Stanford #2 Mississippi State |
W 90β40 W 71β68 W 100β58 W 71β64 W 62β53 W 67β55 |
2018 | #2 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight |
#15 North Carolina A&T #10 Virginia #11 Buffalo #1 Connecticut |
W 63β52 W 66β56 W 79β63 L 65β94 |
2019 | #4 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen |
#13 Belmont #5 Florida State #1 Baylor |
W 74β52 W 72β64 L 68β93 |
2021 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four |
#16 Mercer #8 Oregon State #5 Georgia Tech #6 Texas #1 Stanford |
W 79β53 W 59β42 W 76β65 W 62β34 L 65β66 |
2022 | #1 | First round Second round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#16 Howard #8 Miami #5 North Carolina #10 Creighton #1 Louisville #2 Connecticut |
W 79β21 W 49β33 W 69β61 W 80β50 W 72β59 W 64β49 |
2023 | #1 | First round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four |
#16 Norfolk State #8 South Florida #4 UCLA #2 Maryland #2 Iowa |
W 72β40 W 76β45 W 59β43 W 86β75 L 73β77 |
2024 | #1 | First round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship |
#16 Presbyterian #8 North Carolina #4 Indiana #3 Oregon State #3 NC State #1 Iowa |
W 91β39 W 88β41 W 79β75 W 70β58 W 78β59 W 87β75 |
NCAA Tournament Seeding Historyβ»
The following lists where the Gamecocks have been seeded in the NCAA tournament.
Years β | '82 | '86 | '88 | '89 | '90 | '91 | '02 | '03 | '12 | '13 | '14 | '15 | '16 | '17 | '18 | '19 | '21 | '22 | '23 | '24 |
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Seeds β | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
National Championshipsβ»
Year | Coach | Opponent | Score | Record |
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2017 | Dawn Staley | Mississippi State Bulldogs | 67β55 | 33β4 |
2022 | Dawn Staley | UConn Huskies | 64β49 | 35β2 |
2024 | Dawn Staley | Iowa Hawkeyes | 87β75 | 38β0 |
National Championships | 3 |
Conference Championshipsβ»
Year | Overall Record | Conference Record | Coach | Conference |
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1986 | 18β11 | 9β1 | Nancy Wilson | Metro |
1988 | 23β11 | 10β2 | Nancy Wilson | Metro |
1989 | 23β7 | 10β2 | Nancy Wilson | Metro |
1990 | 24β9 | 13β1 | Nancy Wilson | Metro |
1991 | 22β9 | 12β2 | Nancy Wilson | Metro |
2014 | 29β5 | 14β2 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2015 | 34β3 | 15β1 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2016 | 33β2 | 16β0 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2017 | 33β4 | 14β2 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2020 | 32β1 | 16β0 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2022 | 35β2 | 15β1 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2023 | 36β1 | 16β0 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
2024 | 38β0 | 16β0 | Dawn Staley | SEC |
Conference Tournament Championshipsβ»
South Carolina has played in the Southeastern Conference since the 1997β98 season. The Gamecocks have won 8 out of the last 10 tournament titles, all under Head Coach, Dawn Staley.
Metro Tournament Championshipsβ»
Year | Seed | Round | Opponent | Result |
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1986 | #1 | Semifinals Championship |
(4) Virginia Tech (3) Cincinnati |
W 67β54 W 67β48 |
1988 | #1 | Semifinals Championship |
(4) Southern Mississippi (3) Memphis |
W 86β77 W 81β70 |
1989 | #1 | Semifinals Championship |
(5) Cincinnati (2) Southern Mississippi |
W 63β60 W 92β65 |
SEC Tournament Championshipsβ»
Year | Seed | Round | Opponent | Result |
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2015 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(9) Arkansas (4) LSU (2) Tennessee |
W 58β36 W 74β54 W 62β46 |
2016 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(9) Auburn (5) Kentucky (2) Mississippi State |
W 57β48 W 93β63 W 66β52 |
2017 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(8) Georgia (4) Kentucky (2) Mississippi State |
W 72β48 W 89β77 W 59β49 |
2018 | #2 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(7) Tennessee (3) Georgia (1) Mississippi State |
W 73β62 W 71β49 W 62β51 |
2020 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(9) Georgia (5) Arkansas (2) Mississippi State |
W 89β56 W 90β64 W 76β62 |
2021 | #2 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(7) Alabama (3) Tennessee (4) Georgia |
W 75β63 W 67β52 W 67β62 |
2023 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(8) Arkansas (4) Ole Miss (3) Tennessee |
W 93β66 W 80β51 W 74β58 |
2024 | #1 | Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship |
(9) Texas A&M (5)Tennessee (2) LSU |
W 79β68 W 74β73 W 79β72 |
AIAW Division Iβ»
The Gamecocks made two appearances in the AIAW National Division I basketball tournament, with a combined record of 6β3.
Year | Round | Opponent | Result |
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1973 | First round Consolation First round Consolation Second round Consolation third round |
East Stroudsburg State Lehman UC Riverside Kansas State |
L, 59β66 W, 58β53 W, 49β36 L, 57β69 |
1980 | First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals Third-place game |
USC Northwestern Stephen F. Austin Tennessee Louisiana Tech |
W, 81β60 W, 64β61 W, 63β56 L, 72β75 W, 77β69 |
Attendanceβ»
Over the years, the Gamecocks have played in three different venues. At first games were played at the Blatt P.E. Center. Later games moved to the Carolina Coliseum, which saw the first sell out for a women's basketball game on January 17, 2002. That day, 12,168 fans turned out to see the South Carolina Gamecocks take on the Tennessee Lady Vols.
On November 22, 2002, the Gamecocks opened the newly constructed Colonial Life Arena (then known as Carolina Center; the arena's deal with Unum was signed a year later) with a $1 admission night, leading to a crowd 17,712 saw the Gamecocks defeat the arch-rival Clemson Lady Tigers. The first sell out with 18,000 in attendance occurred on February 8, 2016, against the University of Connecticut Huskies in a match up of the two top ranked teams in the country.
Crowds of over 16,000 at Colonial Life Arena for Women's Basketball games:
Date | Attendance | Opponent | Result |
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02β18β2024 | 18,478 | Georgia | W 70β56 |
02β11β2024 | 18,167 | UConn | W 83β65 |
03β03β2024 | 18,000 | Tennessee | W 76β68 |
02β04β2024 | 18,000 | Ole Miss | W 85β56 |
01β28β2024 | 18,000 | Vanderbilt | W 91β74 |
02β26β2023 | 18,000 | Georgia | W 73β63 |
02β12β2023 | 18,000 | LSU | W 88β64 |
02β20β2022 | 18,000 | Tennessee | W 67β53 |
03β01β2020 | 18,000 | Texas A&M | W 60β52 |
02β10β2020 | 18,000 | UConn | W 70β52 |
03β03β2019 | 18,000 | Mississippi State | L 68β64 |
02β01β2018 | 18,000 | UConn | L 58β83 |
02β26β2017 | 18,000 | Kentucky | W 95β87 |
02β08β2016 | 18,000 | UConn | L 66β54 |
11β22β2002 | 17,712 | Clemson | W 72β58 |
01β11β2015 | 17,156 | Kentucky | W 68β60 |
11β16β2023 | 16,820 | Clemson | W 109β40 |
11β13β2015 | 16,815 | Ohio State | W 88β80 |
01β02β2015 | 16,465 | Auburn | W 77β58 |
12β06β2015 | 16,429 | Duke | W 66β55 |
02β28β2016 | 16,240 | LSU | W 75β39 |
02β18β2016 | 16,186 | Georgia | W 61β51 |
12β06β2023 | 16,181 | Morgan State | W 104β38 |
11β12β2023 | 16,007 | Maryland | W 114β76 |
South Carolina has led the nation in attendance every season since 2014β15, with the exception of 2020 which was limited due to COVID. The Gamecocks have averaged over 10,000 fans in 92 consecutive regular season home games.
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* The 2019 NCAA Tournament games were played in Halton Arena, Charlotte, NC
- The 2021 NCAA Tournament games were played in the bubble at the Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
Notesβ»
- Between losses to Texas A&M on February 10, 2013, and Connecticut on February 8, 2016, the Gamecocks won 45 consecutive games at home.
- As of June 20, 2021, the Gamecocks have drawn over 10,000 fans in 92 consecutive regular season home games
- Since their loss to NC State on December 3, 2021, the Gamecocks have won 59 consecutive home games.
Notable playersβ»
Gamecocks drafted to the WNBAβ»
Player | Draft | Seasons | Notes | WNBA Champion | WNBA MVP | Finals MVP | Rookie of the Year | All-Star Game | All-Star |
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Shannon Johnson | 1999 β Orlando | 11 | (1999β2009) Orlando, Connecticut, San Antonio, Detroit, Houston, Seattle | 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 | 1999, 2000, 2002 | ||||
Shaunzinski Gortman | 2002 β 9th by Charlotte | 5 | (2002β2006) Last with the Seattle Storm | ||||||
Jocelyn Penn | 2003 β 9th by Charlotte | 2 | (2003β2004) Last with the San Antonio | ||||||
Tiffany Mitchell | 2016 β 9th by Indiana | 8 | (2016βPresent) Indiana, Minnesota | ||||||
Alaina Coates | 2017 β 2nd by Chicago | 5 | (2017βPresent) Chicago, Minnesota, Indiana, Atlanta, Washington, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle | 2023 | |||||
Allisha Gray | 2017 β 4th by Dallas | 5 | (2017βpresent) Dallas Wings, Atlanta | 2017 | 2023 | ||||
Kaela Davis | 2017 β 10th by Dallas | 5 | (2017βPresent) Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix | ||||||
A'ja Wilson | 2018 β 1st by Las Vegas | 6 | (2018βPresent) Las Vegas | 2022, 2023 | 2020, 2022 | 2023 | 2018 | 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Mikiah Herbert Harrigan | 2020 β 6th by Minnesota | 2 | (2020βPresent) Minnesota, Seattle | ||||||
Tyasha Harris | 2020 β 7th by Dallas | 4 | (2020βPresent) Dallas, Connecticut | ||||||
Destanni Henderson | 2022 β 20th by Indiana | 2 | (2022βPresent) Indiana, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta | ||||||
Aliyah Boston | 2023 β 1st by Indiana | 1 | (2023βPresent) Indiana | 2023 | 2023 | ||||
Laeticia Amihere | 2023 β 8th by Atlanta | 1 | (2023βPresent) Atlanta | ||||||
Zia Cooke | 2023 β 10th by Los Angeles | 1 | (2023βPresent) Los Angeles | ||||||
Brea Beal | 2023 β 24th by Minnesota | 1 | (2023βPresent) Minnesota, Las Vegas | ||||||
Victaria Saxton | 2023 β 25th by Indiana | 1 | (2023βPresent) Indiana | ||||||
Kamilla Cardoso | 2024 β 3rd by Chicago | 1 | (2024βPresent) Chicago |
Also drafted:
- Teresa Geter β 2002 β 36th by Washington
- Petra Ujhelyi β 2003 β 16th by Phoenix
- Aleighsa Welch β 2015 β 22nd by Chicago
Retired jerseysβ»
South Carolina has retired four jersey numbers.
No. | Player | Career |
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13 | Martha Parker | 1985β1989 |
14 | Shannon Johnson | 1992β1996 |
25 | Tiffany Mitchell | 2012β2016 |
53 | Sheila Foster | 1978β1982 |
Player and coach awardsβ»
National player awardsβ»
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National coach awardsβ»
- Dawn Staley β 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Dawn Staley β 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Dawn Staley β 2020, 2024
- Dawn Staley β 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference awardsβ»
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Colors β Communications and Public Affairs | University of South Carolina". Retrieved July 16, 2019.
- ^ "South Carolina Women's Basketball History".
- ^ Feinberg, Doug (2020-03-17). "South Carolina finishes No. 1 in AP women's basketball poll". AP Wire. The AP. Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
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