As Dawn Staley put together her starting backcourt this offseason, attempting to fill the gaps left by Kaela Davis and Allisha Gray, many assumed she would turn to senior Bianca Cuevas-Moore.
Then, before the regular season began, Cuevas-Moore went down with a sprained knee. In her place, redshirt senior Lindsey Spann stepped up, ranking second on the team in points and proving herself as South Carolina’s best 3-point shooter.
But then, Spann sprained her knee in the last week of November. With redshirt junior Te’a Cooper sitting out the first semester as a transfer, Staley’s Gamecocks were left with only four guards, less than a week before they were to face one of the best guard combos in the country in Duke’s Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell.