On Monday night, it finally all came together for the South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team.
For the first time in eight tries, the invincible Connecticut Huskies — who have long cast a deep, impenetrable shadow over other, would-be contenders in women’s basketball — came away on the losing side of a matchup with the Gamecocks.
And what an emphatic, cathartic victory it was for South Carolina: USC dominated the fifth-ranked Huskies 70-52 in a game that featured a stunning 2-point (yes, two) first quarter from UConn and was never truly in doubt, the sell-out crowd roaring deliriously with every basket.