Quite the exclusive group Dawn Staley now seeks to join. Five men, three women. More humans than that have walked on the moon. The Perfection Club.
All you have to do is go unbeaten and win the Division I national championship. Just one little zero on the right side of the hyphen of your team’s record, and you’re in. Piece of cake. So here are the South Carolina women, 37-0 with one more test to pass, facing an opponent from the cornfields of the Midwest led by Caitlin something or another. One more win and Staley joins the pantheon. Surely that part has her thrilled about her Gamecocks vs. Iowa on Sunday afternoon, right? Right?
“No, not really,” she said Saturday at her press conference. “When I look at basketball, I don’t look at wins and losses. I look at how things are executed and allow the wins or the losses to take care of themselves. And as much as you bring up an undefeated season, it doesn’t feel like it because we’ve played some bad basketball that made it feel like we lost.”
“It’s really hard to believe that we’re undefeated because I don’t feel it. As a coaching staff, we have to pinch ourselves to even know that’s true because deep down we see what our shortcomings are every single day.”
