South Carolina has taken transfers frequently during Staley’s tenure. Some of the Gamecocks’ recent hits in the portal: center Kamilla Cardoso, who came from Syracuse, and Paopao, who came from Oregon. Both won national championships. Naturally, South Carolina has an excellent recruiting pitch for transfers.

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley has always been able to make light of any situation, even getting routed in the NCAA championship game.

South Carolina women’s basketball lost to the UConn Huskies in the national championship on Sunday. The defeat was a disappointing end to another great season for the Gamecocks, one in which they finished with a top-2 ranking in the AP poll for the fourth year in a row.