It wasn’t the response a reporter was looking for, but Frank Martin used the question to push something off his chest.

“I'm going to answer your question in a second,” said the South Carolina basketball coach, “but you said something that triggered something in my head.”

This was late October 2017 and Martin, coming off a Final Four run, wasn’t happy with a narrative his saw circulating about his program. The Gamecocks, in his mind, were NOT set up with a soft non-conference schedule.

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