In the fall of 2017, the hot offseason topic in women’s college basketball was transfers — the rising rate of them, how teams were increasingly using them to win big and what, if anything, should be done to stem them.
At South Carolina, however, transfers were by and large a positive thing — Allisha Gray and Kaela Davis had helped USC win a national championship after starting their careers at different schools. Alexis Jennings was set to play a major role after transferring from Kentucky, and Dawn Staley was hoping to get Te’a Cooper, a highly-touted transfer from Tennessee, an NCAA waiver to make her immediately eligible.