Lindsay Gottlieb, who is bringing elite basketball back to USC, recalls her Final Four season at Cal

Lindsay Gottlieb remembers what it was like to make the Final Four. USC wants to regain that feeling.

USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb recently talked to P.J. Brown of Tucson.com about her memories of Pac-12 women’s basketball. One of those memories — an obvious point of interest for USC fans who have enjoyed Gottlieb’s remake of the USC program — is of Gottlieb’s journey to the 2013 Women’s Final Four at Cal.

“The next thing that really stands out to me is our Final Four year. I think the one of the things I’m most proud of in my career is going 17-1 in the Pac-12 (in 2012-13) and sharing the Pac-12 title with Stanford. Because the Final Four is amazing, the conference tournament championship is amazing, but those things take a week or two weeks. To run through that conference (was special),” Gottlieb said.

“We played Stanford, like the second or third week. I think we were both 4-0 when we played then they beat us at our place. We ran it back three days later at Stanford and beat them and so we were both 3-1 or 4-1 and I knew we were going to have to win out to win the title and we won every which way.”

We will see what USC does when it enters the Pac-12 gauntlet on December 30 at UCLA.

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