COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley knows better than anyone how hard it is to win in the Southeastern Conference.
Staley and her Gamecocks reached another milestone to show that these days, they have few rivals in one of college basketball’s most difficult leagues.
Kamilla Cardoso had 16 points and 16 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina rallied past Georgia 70-56 on Sunday to win its record 43rd straight SEC regular-season game.
The Gamecocks (25-0, 12-0 SEC) broke a mark Tennessee and the late, great Pat Summitt achieved with 42 straight SEC victories from January 1992 through January 1996.
“I’m just proud of the former players and the current players to put together some of the most historical stretches in this league,” Staley said. “It says something to be able to do that because this is a hard league.”
Georgia and Javyn Nicholson proved that for much of this one. Nicholson had a career-high 27 points, and the Bulldogs were ahead 37-28 early in the third quarter.
That’s when Cardoso and the Gamecocks reasserted themselves to take control.
“I feel like we just didn’t get in the flow defensively,” said Chloe Kitts, who scored 10 of her 12 points in the final two quarters. “At the end of the day, we stopped [Nicholson] in the…
