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UConn, South Carolina, coaches slated for rematch in NovemberCoaches Geno Auriemma of UConn and Dawn Staley of South Carolina will be on opposing benches just seven months after their fiery exchange at the end of their Final Four game in April.,The Huskies and Gamecocks will play as part of a doubleheader at the annual Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Showcase...

Virginia Tech AD Whit Babcock moving into new roleVirginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock will end that role on June 30 and move into a position as athletics director emeritus on July 1, the school announced Thursday.,Babcock has been the AD for 12 years, beginning in January 2014. He is the second-longest tenured athletic director in the Atla...

South Carolina's Dawn Staley moving on from spat with UConn's Geno AuriemmaSouth Carolina coach Dawn Staley said Tuesday that she has moved on from an on-court spat with UConn coach Geno Auriemma in the Women's Final Four and would like everyone else to do the same.,Two of the sport's elite coaches had a heated argument after Staley's Gamecocks defeated the defending champ...

UCLA dominates South Carolina for first NCAA women's hoops title

PHOENIX -- Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts posted her 15th double-double of the season and UCLA won its first women's basketball national championship in the NCAA era with a suffocating 79-51 victory over South Carolina in the final Sunday afternoon.,Betts had 14 points and 11 rebound...

South Carolina ends UConn's perfect season, advances to title game

PHOENIX -- Ta'Niya Latson had 16 points and 11 rebounds to lead a balanced South Carolina attack, and the Gamecocks stunned undefeated and top-seeded UConn 62-48 in the NCAA Women's Final Four in Phoenix on Friday.,Agot Makeer scored 14 points, Joyce Edwards had 11 and Tessa Johnson had 10 for the G...

Women's hoops powers UConn, South Carolina meet again in Final Four

PHOENIX -- For South Carolina, familiarity breeds respect.,"UConn has been the standard in women's basketball for a very long time," South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said Thursday, on the eve of another faceoff.,"When you have some traditionally rich program like that, it helps us all grow. It helps...

Oklahoma rides late surge into SEC tourney vs. South Carolina with bubble at stake

Inching closer to the NCAA Tournament bubble, Oklahoma desperately needs to stay hot against South Carolina in the first round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.,Oklahoma (17-14) finished 11th in the SEC after winning its last four regular-season games, catapu...

Former Gamecocks playing in Israel trying to come home

Former South Carolina players Tiffany Mitchell, Mikiah Herbert Harrigan and Destiny Littleton are "in a war zone in Israel," according to Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley, who added that an effort is underway to get the players back to the United States.,In a social media post on X on Saturday, Staley wr...