Over the course of two years, South Carolina women’s basketball fans grew accustomed to unmitigated dominance. A national title in 2022 begot a nearly perfect record the following season, when Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks lost just once, in the Final Four, to Caitlin Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes. They atoned for that blip in 2024, beating Clark and Iowa in the national title game to complete an undefeated season and cement themselves as a dynasty.
