A week after the men, South Carolina women’s basketball will play its lone exhibition of the preseason on Friday, hosting Division II Lander at 7 p.m. in Colonial Life Arena.
A surprise defeat seems even more unlikely than it did for Frank Martin’s squad, and not just because Dawn Staley’s team begins the year ranked No. 10 in the AP preseason poll. While Martin chose not to call timeouts late or sub in his best player who had four fouls, Staley said Thursday that her squad will approach the game as it would any regular season contest.