DALLAS -- From the start of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer was, to a degree, strategically rolling the dice with his team. And it worked well... until the end.
South Carolina won the NCAA title Sunday with a 67-55 victory over the Bulldogs. As much attention as Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley got for claiming her long-awaited first national championship, there was perhaps just as much focus on what happened on the Bulldogs' bench.
Specifically, why Schaefer let the breakout star of the NCAA tournament, junior point guard Morgan William, sit for the entire fourth quarter.