Lady Gamecock Basketball

Before the Final Four, the South Carolina Gamecocks had some individual hardware to win Wednesday evening in Dallas.  For the second year in a row, and the third time in the last four seasons, head coach Dawn Staley was named the Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year.  Though she did not repeat as Naismith Player of the Year, South Carolina senior forward Aliyah Boston was named Naismith Defensive Player of the Year, an honor she also took home last season.  The Gamecocks are two wins from repeating as national champions and becoming just the fifth program in the history of women’s basketball to complete a perfect campaign, but to reach the championship game, they’ll have to get through Iowa on Friday night, in a matchup of South Carolina’s nation-best scoring defense against Iowa’s no. 1