South Carolina basketball’s 3-point shooting performance last Sunday against Maryland was bad, no way around it.
But Dawn Staley’s biggest concern moving forward isn’t the Gamecocks’ shooting. It’s what they’re doing, or not doing, to grab missed shots.
Maryland pulled down 53 total rebounds against USC, 22 of them offensive boards. That total number is more than any other opponent has collected against South Carolina since 2010. The number of offensive rebounds is the third most in three years.
Those statistics aren’t necessarily surprising, as Staley no longer has her ace rebounder A’ja Wilson and redshirt senior forward Alexis Jennings has had limited minutes due to injury.