South Carolina women’s basketball is headed back to the Sweet 16 for the sixth year in a row, and all it took was a back-and-forth, incredibly tense win over No. 5 seed Florida State on Sunday to do it.
The Gamecocks out-shot the Seminoles, had fewer turnovers and got to the free throw line twice as many times. But a large part of what kept the 82-74 contest so close was the offensive rebounding — FSU pulled down 27 offensive boards, the most of any Carolina opponent this season, and turned them into 19 second-chance points.