It’s not as though there was any doubt before, but now it’s officially official: South Carolina women’s basketball will play in its seventh straight NCAA tournament.
With a victory over Mississippi State in the SEC tournament championship game on Sunday, the Gamecocks secured an automatic bid to the Big Dance, the fifth team in the country to do so.
But we all already knew that. As the No. 8 team in the country, USC has been included in the NCAA selection committee top-16 rankings all year long. The question now, as it has been for several years, is what seed and region of the bracket South Carolina will receive?