Tommy Corchiani would love to tell you a story about how he saw South Carolina’s improbable NCAA tournament run coming.
How the freshman guard from Raleigh was confident in February the Gamecocks (26-10) would be in the Final Four, where the upstart No. 7 seed from the East regional will take on Gonzaga (36-1), the top seed from the West, on Saturday night (6:09 p.m., CBS) in Glendale, Ariz.
But that’s all it would be — a good story. It’s not that Corchiani, the son of former N.C State great Chris Corchiani, was worried about South Carolina’s NCAA tournament history.