It’s been said that male athletes will raise their game and “show out” a bit when they know a certain special lady is in attendance.
For Oregon guard Jermaine Couisnard, that special lady happened to be his grandmother, who was able to make the trip from Indiana to see him play in person for the first time in a Ducks uniform.
Suffice to say, he didn’t let her down.
Couisnard dropped 40 points, the most ever by a Duck in an NCAA Tournament game, and Oregon rolled 6th seed South Carolina 87-73 to advance to the round of 32 on Saturday against head coach Dana Altman’s former squad, the Creighton Bluejays.