MINNEAPOLIS — South Carolina had just ended Creighton's Cinderella run last weekend in Greensboro, N.C., and the confetti was raining down like shards of a broken glass slipper.
To be sure: The job wasn't done.
Dawn Staley's team had advanced to its second consecutive Final Four and its fourth since the spring of 2015. When you've had that kind of success, when you already have one NCAA women's basketball title trophy in your office, just getting there — or here, to the Twin Cities — isn't enough.
