A’ja Wilson raised a few eyebrows when she fired off two 3-point attempts in a game against Savannah State earlier this season, the first time she’s done that in her collegiate career.
But as it turns out, Wilson isn’t the only South Carolina post player working on her shot from long range — a future Gamecock also is trying to transform herself into a multidimensional threat.
Victaria Saxton, ESPN’s No. 50 recruit in the country, signed with South Carolina on Nov. 14 and is one half of the Gamecocks’ 17th-ranked recruiting class of 2018. The 6-foot-1 forward from Rome, Georgia, is trying to get a head start on her collegiate career, she said, forcing herself to take shots from the outside instead of driving into the lane.