While most of college basketball kicked off the season earlier this week, South Carolina’s women’s team waited.
That wait will end Sunday, and it will do so in meaningful fashion, as Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks open their schedule against a unique opponent.
Alabama State, a small school in Montgomery, Ala., is coached on the men’s side by Lewis Jackson and on the women’s side by Freda Freeman-Jackson — one of the only husband-wife duos to coach Division I basketball. And their daughter, Bianca Jackson, is a sophomore guard for South Carolina.
Jackson began her college career last season by going against her mother and Alabama State at Colonial Life Arena, playing 28 minutes and scoring eight points as the Gamecocks routed the Hornets, 99-31.