South Carolina women’s basketball capped off its pre-holiday schedule with a historic, emotional and emphatic win over Temple on Thursday, claiming a 78-60 victory to make Dawn Staley the winningest coach in Gamecock history and put No. 4 USC at 11-1 this season.
For the next week or so, South Carolina’s players and coaches will break for the holidays, scattering across the country, before reassembling to face No. 19 Texas A&M on New Year’s Eve. And while the team that will come back from break could look significantly different from the one that easily handled Temple, the victory over the Owls still marks a significant point in the Gamecocks’ development.