TAMPA — In their final act, the most successful players in South Carolina Gamecocks basketball history did something they had never done before: They lost an NCAA tournament game to a much better team.
The Gamecocks did not expect this. They have accumulated far too much pride for that. Sure, the Connecticut Huskies blew them out in Columbia in February, but they told themselves the same story their play has told everybody else for years: When we play well, we win.
