During last year’s NCAA Tournament, Dawn Staley carried a piece of the net from South Carolina’s 2017 championship as she looked to make the Gamecocks just the eighth program to win multiple titles in NCAA women’s basketball history. Her team went on to lift the 2022 trophy, and now they are two wins from yet another one.
“It’s a hell of a place to be,” she told CBS Sports.
“I know I had goals and dreams that I aspired to accomplish, that’s my selfish self. But, boy, when you’re able to accomplish something with other people, with other people in mind, and other people get to share it, it’s 100 times more gratifying. When you are able to share somebody else’s dream, to me it’s just to the 10th power of feel-good.”
Her list of accomplishments is an extensive one. The WNBA Hall of Fame icon won three Olympic gold medals with Team USA as a player and another one as a head coach. Now she is using her talents to build something in South Carolina — a team that went wire-to-wire as No. 1 last season and won the 2022 NCAA championship.
Staley’s team is in a good spot this season, too, as the Gamecocks — who earned the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s tournament — are 36-0 and riding a 42-game winning streak that…
