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Sportswriter * The Post and Courier * Author, "Here We Go! Dawn Staley's Gamecocks and the Road to the Championship"
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Muschamp: "We tried to take Javon Kinlaw out three times and he said, 'Get the hell out of the way, I'm going back in.'
"I said, OK."
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OK, so Dawn Staley just said this.
Guess who spoke to Bree Hall in the timeout before she hit those 3s?
Aliyah Boston.
Graduated and STILL helping the Gamecocks win.
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I’ll say it.
First thing to do for next season?
Dawn Staley Court at Colonial Life Arena.
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Muschamp on the unsportsmanlike penalty: "I’m not going to comment about anything else. Don’t go 40 yards away and drop the flag. Drop it at my feet."
Then shakes his head and says, "Gutless."
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JUST IN: South Carolina’s Paul Jubb has won the NCAA men’s tennis singles national championship. It is the first in school history.
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Apparently they ran out of fireworks and couldn't set them off after the last TD.
Beamer: "They've seen us play offense, they probably didn't have a very large supply ... "
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Also:
That was South Carolina's 1,000th win as a program.
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After all the painful decisions, after all the questionable calls ...
USC pulls off the biggest win of Will Muschamp's tenure, and one of the biggest in school history.
The Gamecocks beat the No. 3 Bulldogs.
I will be double-damned.
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Bryan Edwards on his records: "We lost."
Kid deserves so much more than this.
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Jordan Burch has picked …
South Carolina.
Highest-ranked commitment Will Muschamp has landed, and the highest USC has landed since another in-state highly coveted DE, some kid named Clowney, in 2011.
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Dawn Staley reveals that Aliyah Boston gave her All-Tournament Team trophy to Laeticia Amihere. Felt she deserved it.
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This will be the third time in four years USC has clinched a top-four SEC finish.
For Frank Martin to do it this year, when he finished the season with seven scholarship players, is deserving of SEC Coach of the Year.
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Ask and you shall receive.
7 p.m. Wednesday. Colonial Life Arena.
Tennessee at South Carolina.
For first place.
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School-record 2,389 points, 363 blocks. 1,195 rebounds.
Three-time first-team All-American/SEC Player of the Year.
The greatest player to ever wear a South Carolina uniform. In any sport.
Every day spent watching A’ja Wilson play basketball was a good day.
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Why didn't you opt out, considering what you have in your future?
Sadarius Hutcherson: "At the end of the day, my guys need a leader. It just wouldn't be right for me to leave."
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Something I overlooked:
Shilo Sanders led the Gamecocks with 10 tackles.
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Ahmarean Brown and Marcellas Dial confirm they will each play in the Gator and return in 2023.
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FINAL: South Carolina 63, No. 5 Tennessee 59.
The Gamecocks improve to 18-3, 6-2 SEC and are at Georgia on Saturday.
Two wins over Top-6 opponents in three games. USC, picked to finish last by the league media, is in second place in the SEC.
Folks, it is real.
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Lot going on in those final few minutes, and I missed it at the time.
Final fumble was coughed up by Dutch Fork product Antonio Williams. Recovered by Irmo product Nick Emmanwori.
Rivalry keeps rivalry-ing.
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All-Tournament Team
Rickea Jackson, Tennessee
Angel Reese, LSU
Flau’jae Johnson, LSU
Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina
MiLaysia Fulwiley, South Carolina
Most Outstanding Player: MiLaysia Fulwiley, South Carolina
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South Carolina has clinched a winning conference season for just the sixth time in 28 years in the SEC.
Frank Martin has three of them.
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Beamer: Pauses to compose himself about the kids who left it all out there. "I'm really, really, really proud to be their football coach."
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Lamont Paris: "Ridiculous atmosphere. How about the atmosphere we’ve created in this place? And we’re on spring break!"
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Pete Lembo's contract has been extended through the 2025 season. He will be paid $725,000 per year.
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Will Muschamp has now won more games in his first three seasons at USC (22) than any other coach.
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Shane Beamer: All I've heard for a month is why I'm not making any changes or firing this guy or that guy.
543 yards today.
"I hope that’s a great answer for you right there. That’s why."
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South Carolina is playing for a national championship tonight.
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Shane Beamer: "Y'all's predictions today were about the worst I've ever seen ..."
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South Carolina just deliberately:
* Thumbed its nose to at least two of its biggest donors;
* Divided the student body and faculty;
* Risked its accreditation.
And you thought the U-of-SC rebranding was a disaster.
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Jaycee Horn has been named Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week.
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Muschamp confirms Deshaun Fenwick came to him and talked to him about transferring.
Muschamp told him to stick it out, not to quit. It hasn't been easy for Fenwick, but he listened.
Pulled him in front of the whole team tonight and credited him for that, and his performance.
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Holy God.
The Gamecocks return their entire team ... signed the No. 1 recruiting class in the country ... and just added a 6-7 center that was named ACC Freshman AND Defensive Player of the Year last season.
No better way for
@Kamillascsilva
to celebrate her birthday than to JOIN OUR GAMECOCK FAMILY!!!
📰:
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In 29 years in the league, South Carolina has had seven winning SEC seasons.
Frank Martin has four of them.
FINAL: South Carolina 83, Mississippi State 71. The Gamecocks improve to 18-12, 10-7 SEC and are at Vanderbilt on Saturday.
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FINAL: South Carolina 70, No. 9 Virginia 59. The Gamecocks improve to 8-4 and host Stetson on Dec. 30.
Gamecocks take out the defending national champs on their home court. They take care of business in the SEC, this one will really stand out in March.
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Beamer on his portal/opt-out policy: Fine if they want to go, but if they do, they're not allowed to play in the bowl game. Says a couple of transfers asked if they could enter the portal and play in the Gator, and it was a hard no.
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USC alum Ernest Jones had seven tackles, two for loss, one sack, three QB hurries and one defended pass in the Rams' Super Bowl win.
A USC alum has won a Super Bowl in each of the past five seasons.
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Dawn Staley: "I do believe this contract extension keeps me here, it’s fair to say for a very long time. I don’t know when my career will end, but certainly, I want this to be my last stop."
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The Walter Camp National FBS Offensive Player of the Week:
Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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Beamer: Walked into the weight room at 5:45 a.m. last week and there were two guys in there halfway through their workout.
It was MarShawn Lloyd and Debo Williams. Williams got here on Lloyd's recommendation.
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ALCS MVP Jackie Bradley Jr.
World Series MVP Steve Pearce.
Quite a postseason for the GameSox.
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BREAKING
Raven Johnson, the country's No. 13 prospect, has committed to Dawn Staley and South Carolina.
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Oh, right.
South Carolina has earned the SEC's first bowl win of the season.
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Xavier Legette: "I still want to come back. I just want to do more for me."
Spencer Rattler: Going to pray on his decision, talk with his family, talk with many others.
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JUST IN: Hassani Gravett has been named SEC Sixth Man of the Year.
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FINAL: South Carolina 31, Clemson 30. The Gamecocks finish the regular season 8-4 with their first rivalry win in eight tries, and will discover their bowl-game destination on Dec. 4.
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As expected, Destanni Henderson has filed for inclusion into the WNBA Draft. Senior left it all on the floor with a career-high 26 points for the national championship.
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In strictly head-to-head results, USC leads Clemson 7-4 in the all-sports season rivalry.
If they don't meet in the postseason, that's it for the school year.
Gamecocks have not lost the all-sports rivalry since 2005-06.
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Notre Dame coach Micah Shrewsberry on CLA:
"I saw those students pour in and I was like, "Oh, s---."
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Four-star QB Dante Reno has committed to Shane Beamer and South Carolina for the Class of 2024.
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Dawn Staley on the anthem story, which was completely wrong.
"Whoever that person, that journalist was that wrote that, please do your research."
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Stone Blanton of Madison, Miss., the No. 13 inside linebacker in the country, has committed to South Carolina.
He was committed to Mississippi State to play baseball and at least said during his ceremony that he will play football and baseball at USC.
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Conversations need to begin now to bring Jackie Bradley Jr. and Steve Pearce to Founders Park for Opening Day.
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Shane Beamer leans into the media room with a grin: "Sorry to mess up y'all's Monday night plans last night ... "
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Four-star edge Desmond Umeozulu has committed to Shane Beamer and South Carolina. He chose the Gamecocks over North Carolina, Pitt and Ohio State.
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Xavier Legette on this "November to Remember:"
"We ain't done, man. We got one more shot."
With that ...
It's Rivalry Week.
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Football note: This year, Will Muschamp started writing inspirational messages on the T-shirts that he wears to practice ("Match Me" was one during preseason).
This week's was, "I gave up 367 yards rushing to Florida."
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Satterfield's first talk with Rattler:
"I told him, 'Everybody in the country thinks you stink. Everybody in the country thinks I stink. Let's go at this with the biggest possible chip on our shoulder.'"
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Look who's No. 1:
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BREAKING
Less than 24 hours after No. 3 prospect Saniya Rivers pledged to South Carolina, the country's No. 6 prospect, forward Sania Feagin, did the same.
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Xavier Legette says he thinks he’ll return to USC next season. Feels he hasn’t really done that much and wants next year to be his best.
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Will Muschamp on Dakereon Joyner:
"Gutsy as hell performance."
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Spurrier: "Our Gamecocks gave those Tar Heels a solid trouncing up there in Charlotte!"
The man never misses a chance to gig UNC (Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, etc.)
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The only time Joyner worked at receiver the past month was the 20 minutes of open practice for the media in Charlotte.
Beamer: Sorry to punk you guys ...
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When LSU-Alabama play, it gets answered during the game.
South Carolina and Florida played three weeks ago and still no explanation of non-called pick plays, false starts and holding for 40 yards downfield.
In
#LSUvsBAMA
, if a receiver is forced out of bounds due to contact by a defender, the receiver can re-establish position on the field and make a legal catch. On the play in question, the ruling on the field was the receiver was forced out of bounds by contact.
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FINAL: South Carolina 74, Vanderbilt 71. The Gamecocks improve to 9-7, 4-0 SEC and are at LSU on Saturday.
I will be triple-damned.
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The core of the team -- Myles Stute, CMB, Zach Davis, Jacobi Wright -- are all saying that their roles start now in terms of taking the leadership of this team for next year.
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The Pat Summitt Trophy, given to the WBCA National Coach of the Year, goes to:
Dawn Staley, South Carolina
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BREAKING
Gamecocks will retire Alshon Jeffery's No. 1 jersey on Sept. 23 (the MSU game)
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MarShawn Lloyd: "We’re here now. South Carolina is on the rise."
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South Carolina alum Stephon Gilmore will be covering South Carolina alum Alshon Jeffery in Super Bowl LII.
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Some pre-game news:
Aliyah Boston has been named Lisa Leslie Center of the Year for the third straight season.
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Gamecock Nation has lost a legend.
RIP, Gamecock Jesus.
His presence here w/ us will be dearly missed but he will surely be waving his flag to get the angels cheering for the Gamecocks in Heaven.
Once details have been confirmed, we’ll be sure to share information on services & sharing condolences.
#ForeverToThee
🙏🏽❤️🖤🕊️
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Four-star DL Xzavier McLeod of Camden has committed to Shane Beamer and South Carolina. His other finalists were Georgia, Michigan and Florida.
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Dawn Staley: "For all the people that doubted this moment ... you can come on back.
"I'm honored to coach this basketball team."
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All-Regional Team
Raven Johnson, South Carolina
Raegan Beers, Oregon State
Tamia Gardiner, Oregon State
Sydney Parrish, Indiana
Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina
Most Outstanding Player: Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina
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Mike Bobo erupts from the coaching booth up here with a "YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!"
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South Carolina commit Ryan Hilinski has been named National Player of the Year.
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Panthers owner David Tepper really wants to build a strong relationship with South Carolina, and the University of South Carolina.
He has created a scholarship program in the school's Sport and Entertainment Management major.
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Shane Beamer: "A month ago, I was asked if this team quit (after Georgia). That look like this team’s quit? We’ve won four straight for the first time since what, 2013?"
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Parker White wanted to run down to the student section like last year against La Tech.
"I saw my girlfriend in the first row, but all my teammates were right there. Saturdays are for the boys, I guess."
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Xavier Legette thanks the fans for sticking it out with the team through the weather.
Personally asks for them to come out next week. "We're really going to have fun."
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As we all know, the Class of 2019 could all come back, and as we all know, it's highly unlikely that all will.
So if this is it, what a ride. Aliyah Boston, Zia Cooke, Brea Beal, Laeticia Amihere and Olivia Thompson will finish their CLA careers with a four-year record of 60-1.
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Staley: Ty looked at me during breaks, like, 'Don't take me out.'
So like a good coach, I didn't take her out.
She played 40 minutes and scored 19 points with 11 assists. Four rebounds and a steal.
And zero turnovers.
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Spencer Rattler: "We’re tough, we got grit, we just got to get smart now."
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Some Gamecocks leave the clubhouse and go tarp-sliding in the rain. Now they're just sitting in a semi-circle, talking.
Why not? Give them one last moment as teammates.
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South Carolina receives 21 votes in this week's USA Today Coaches' Top 25 (No. 32).
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JUST IN
Zeb Noland says "Col. Zebuliah" T-shirts are on the way.
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Been reported by several, now confirmed.
Shane Beamer is expected to add Erik Kimrey to his coaching staff. A Columbia guy, a USC guy who threw one of the most fabled passes in USC history, a helluva high-school coach and podcast host, the move has been a long time coming.
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Will Muschamp: Part of the team's involvement in the protests on Friday was registering to vote. Many did it there and others did it online.
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