Should South Carolina women’s basketball earn the right to host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, the Gamecocks have been granted a waiver by the NCAA to do so in Charlotte, the program announced Thursday.
The need for a new venue was necessitated by the fact that the team’s home arena, Colonial Life Arena, will host the NCAA men’s tournament on the same weekend. NCAA rules require schools to apply for a waiver to host at any site more than 30 miles away from campus.
USC would play in Halton Arena, on the campus of UNC-Charlotte.