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How to buy Iowa vs. South Carolina NCAA Women’s National Championship game tickets

Want to watch South Carolina vs. Iowa in person? Limited tickets for the Women’s NCAA title game still remain for as little as $345.

After almost three weeks of madness, chalk reigns supreme in the women’s bracket as No. 1 South Carolina and No. 1 Iowa will play for a national championship.

Undefeated South Carolina dominated the second half and defeated No. 3 North Carolina State 78-59 to secure the first spot in the National Championship Game.

Iowa held on to win a roller coaster of a Final Four game against No. 3 UConn 71-69.

SHOP: South Carolina vs. Iowa tickets

The undisputed top team in the country in the Gamecocks taking on the consensus best player in the country in Caitlin Clark, what more could you want…besides a ticket?

The National Championship Game will be played in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m. EDT, and limited tickets still remain.

Don’t miss the chance to see a champion crowned and a historic moment in Caitlin Clark’s final collegiate game.

At the time of publication, National Championship Game tickets were still available for as little as $345.

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Maddy McDaniel talks special relationship with South Carolina’s Dawn Staley

South Carolina commit Maddy McDaniel breaks down her relationship with head coach Dawn Staley.

Even though South Carolina got involved late in her recruitment, Maddy McDaniel forged a strong relationship with head coach Dawn Staley. It is a relationship that impressed the McDonald’s All-American.

McDaniel, a guard from Bishop McNamara High School (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), spoke ahead of Tuesday night’s McDonald’s All-American Game. She is a five-star prospect per ESPN and is part of a stellar recruiting class pulled in by Staley.

South Carolina will face North Carolina State on Friday night in the Final Four.

During Monday’s press conference for the McDonald’s All-American Game, McDaniel was asked by USA TODAY High School Sports about her relationship with Staley.

“Such a great person like surprisingly, they were one of the later schools to come on in my recruitment,” McDaniel said.

“But I felt like there was just like with our relationship she’s just so down to earth you wouldn’t think that.”

The girls game will take place on Tuesday night, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN2.

South Carolina leading scorer Meechie Johnson enters the transfer portal

South Carolina is losing its leading scorer to the transfer portal.

The South Carolina men’s basketball team is losing one of their top players to the transfer portal.

Gamecocks’ leading scorer, Meechie Johnson, announced Monday that he is entering the transfer portal, likely ending his time at South Carolina. Johnson was the Gamecocks leading scorer this past season, leaving a large vacancy for the program.

Meechie earned All-SEC honors this past season, averaging 14.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 2.9 assists.

“Coach Paris has been very impactful in my life and my development, and that is my guy forever, but all being said, I will be entering the transfer portal and will also consider testing the NBA Draft waters.”

Johnson looks for greener pastures elsewhere.

Dawn Staley’s very good dog Champ adorably crashed her March Madness press conference

March Madness dog alert!

During Saturday’s press availability, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley brought a special friend with her to the table.

Staley’s dog Champ joined her as she took questions from reporters and joked that the dog wouldn’t answering any questions from the press until the NCAA gave the very good boy a proper name plate.

This dog is very adorable and deserves many treats and belly rubs, even if the poor little guy does look tired from all the March Madness festivities.

If you see Champ during this year’s tournament as he cheers on Staley and South Carolina, make sure to tell him he’s the bestest boy in basketball.

Even if South Carolina doesn’t go all the way this spring, the team will at least know that Champ is in its corner. That’s a pretty good thing to have during March Madness.

Also, NCAA, we hope to see Champ’s name plate at the press table the next time he and Staley make an appearance!

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Dawn Staley had the perfect advice for South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso before game-winning 3-pointer

Good advice, Coach!

South Carolina’s women’s basketball team stayed undefeated on the season on Saturday in a stunning finish against Tennessee.

Center Kamilla Cardoso hit a clutch 3-pointer as the clock expired to give South Carolina the 74-73 victory at home over the Lady Vols in one of the best endings to a basketball game this season.

After the game, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley told ESPN what advice she gave Cardoso before she saved the team’s undefeated season. It’s pretty perfect.

“The last thing that came out of my mouth was ‘Kamilla, shoot that blanky blank,'” Staley quipped in the postgame interview about her advice to Cardoso.

Cardoso took her coach’s suggestion and it worked out more than fine for South Carolina as the team earned the hard-fought victory over Tennessee.

The team will undoubtedly remain atop the rankings and should be a favorite once the 2024 NCAA women’s tournament gets going later this month.

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Candace Parker hilariously called Aces teammate A’Ja Wilson on Facetime to celebrate Tennessee right before South Carolina’s epic buzzer-beater

Celebrated too soon!

The South Carolina women’s basketball team refused to lose on Saturday, as Kamilla Cardoso scored her first 3-pointer of the season to top Tennessee at the buzzer.

The heroic bucket from Cardoso kept South Carolina’s undefeated season alive and sent the Lady Vols home with a devastating defeat.

The last-second South Carolina victory also caught Tennessee great and current Las Vegas Aces forward Candace Parker off-guard as she Facetimed with her teammate, a former South Carolina standout.

Wilson posted on Twitter (X) a screenshot of the two talking on Facetime, as she said that Parker called Wilson thinking the game was over only to realize it most certainly was not after Cardoso’s shot.

It’s never a good idea to celebrate until the final buzzer, especially in a sport like basketball where so much can change with one bucket.

Parker probably won’t hear the end of this for quite some time, as Wilson both got a big victory for her alma mater and a good laugh out of Parker’s confident Facetime call.

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South Carolina at Alabama: How to watch, injury report, players to watch

Where will you be watching from?

The Alabama men’s basketball team will have its SEC home opener on Tuesday night when they welcome in the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Both the Tide and the Gamecocks were able to collect wins this past Saturday with Alabama getting a road win over Vanderbilt and South Carolina taking care of business at home against Mississippi State.

Alabama currently sits a 9-5 on the season after facing one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country while South Carolina is an impressive 13-1, but their non-conference slate was not near as difficult as the Tide’s.

Below is everything you need to know to catch the action between Alabama and South Carolina from inside Coleman Coliseum.

Social media reacts: Clemson takes down rivals South Carolina to remain undefeated

Here is a look at how social media reacted to Clemson’s excellent win over rivals South Carolina.

Brad Brownell and the Clemson men’s basketball team remained undefeated as they took down rivals South Carolina 72-67, ending the Gamecocks undefeated season.

The Tigers trailed 7 heading into the half (30-23), but that didn’t stop this team from rallying to beat their bitter rivals. The team fought hard behind 13 second-half points from Chauncey Wiggins to reach 8-0 on the season as arguably the hottest team in college basketball right now.

Starting your season this way is as good as it can get for a team, but this win makes it that much sweeter. When you and your biggest rival both have tremendous starts to your season, and you walk away with the big rivalry win, it is the best feeling for players and fans.

Here is a look at how Twitter/X reacted to Clemson’s big win.

Brownell updates injuries ahead of Clemson vs. South Carolina battle of undefeated teams

Clemson head coach Brad Brownell updated the injury status of multiple players ahead of Clemson vs. South Carolina.

Brad Brownell and the Clemson men’s basketball team have a huge matchup Wednesday as the Tigers host undefeated rivals South Carolina for what is shaping up to be an excellent matchup.

Forward Jack Clark has been dealing with lingering injuries, but played through it until recently. Clark did not participate in the Tigers’ win over Pittsburgh, and it sounds like his status is still up in the air ahead of this matchup against the Gamecocks.

“We’re still kind of trying to figure it all out. I would say he’s doubtful for this game. I’m going to get with Brad (Crowe) right before practice and just see what it looks like. It’s been challenging for him. Just hasn’t been able to kind of get all the way there. He’s had some steps back, if you will, so we’ve just got to kind of deal with it day-to-day,” Brownell said.

Along with Clark is Alex Hemenway, who is dealing with a lower leg injury. Hemenway has some time to go before the team believes he’ll be back to full strength.

“Jack and Alex, that’s been really challenging. I anticipated those guys being probably two of our top six guys. It’s just, they both haven’t been able to do as much,” Brownell said.

Clemson won’t be at full strength for this matchup, but they’ve been banged up throughout the season. Clemson faces South Carolina on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Littlejohn Coliseum with tipoff at 8 p.m., televised on ACC Network.

A South Carolina girls basketball team won their opener 95-0

A girls high school basketball team posts a shutout.

The score is simply incomprehensible.

The Dutch Fork (Irmo, South Carolina) girls basketball team opened the season on Friday with a 95-0 win over Lamar (Lamar, South Carolina). That is right.

It bares repeating: Dutch Fork won their season opener 95-0 over Lamar.

On one hand, scoring 95 points in a high school basketball game is incredibly rare. It is an incredible amount of points to score. But to then hold an opponent to no points is…well…it just doesn’t happen.

And it doesn’t happen with this kind of margin between the two teams.

In a comment on social media, one person questioned the sportsmasnhip of the winning school, saying that Dutch Fork probably used a full-court press the entire game. There is no tap-dancing around that tweet, which implies that Dutch Fork ran up the score and didn’t let up.

Interestingly enough, the program responded to the tweet and defended their head coach:

 

Well, that will make Lamar feel better…’The score could’ve been much higher’…

Last season, Dutch Fork went 14-10.

There were no stats for the game given that the poor high school student charged with being the scorekeeper first ran out of ink and then developed severe arm cramps midway through the first quarter when trying to keep up with the action.