South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley said her team deserves to be overall seed number 1 at the upcoming NCAA tournament after a dominant running through the Southeast Conference Tournament, which culminated impressively 64-45 routes number 1 Texas In Sunday’s championship game.
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Gamecocks (30-3), who won the National Championship last season, entered the SEC tournament in the fifth place in the country and Predicted to be a seme number 2.
But after sticking three enemies of the league for 18, 21 and 19 points, now it seems that the seed is number 1.
However, Staley thinks her team earned more.
“When you win this tournament and play the schedule we play, I think we are total number 1 seed,” Staley said. “We have made our schedule to put ourselves in this situation. Therefore, I hope that the Committee does not reject our CV. There is no one in the country who played the schedule we played, which had a share in the head of a regular season, won this tournament and beat the team number 1 in the country. … There is no one.”
She claimed that Gamecocks’s 2024-25-Koji CVs would include 12 wins against the top 25 teams, including two against Texas-should count something. South Carolina has 7-3 records against the top 10 teams, and their three defeats have encountered number 1 Texas, no. 3 Connecticut and number 4 UCLA.
Gamecocks’s arrangement of a regular part of the season in 30 games included 13 games against teams in AP Top 25 at the time of the game more than any other ranked team.
Staley said she was “shocked” when she learned that her team was the number 2 that she entered the tournament.
“If you have received so much credit for beating, and when we had some of the hardest moves in the country and get out of it, you can’t give up,” Staley said. “You can’t discredit it. I’ll talk about it because you have to hear the voice of the other side. Because if you don’t think our works deserve it, then you need to talk about it.”
She added, “I’ll go down, fighting for what our team earned.”
Associated press reporting.
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