Dawn Staley, head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks, recently settled the matter of Raven Johnson’s recent comments about Kamilla Cardoso and Ashlyn Watkins in an WIS News interview. After the team won against the Indiana Hoosiers in the second round of the NCAA tournament, Johnson stated to reporters that the team did not require the presence of Cardoso or Watkins to win.
The comment definitely left fans and viewers scratching their hands, and many different twists to the story came out. However, it was only much later that fans realized that Johnson’s comments about her teammates was to call out Indiana’s Sydney Parrish’s remarks that her team would have an easy outing against South Carolina which will be playing without Cardoso and Watkins.
“Raven’s a competitor. The Indiana player is a competitor. Sometimes, as competitors, you say things to get under your opponent’s skin, which the comment did get under our kid’s skin. “You got to grade our team on this year. We haven’t been with Ashlyn or Kamilla for a very long time. I think what got under the skin of Raven is probably the ‘smart’ comment. I think our team, Raven knows this, we’re a very disciplined basketball team. We’re a very ‘together’ basketball team. We’re a team that can make adjustments so Raven was just speaking on that, being the competitor that she is.” Dawn Staley said to Judi Gatson and Billie Jean Shaw in the WIS News interview.
Kamilla Cardoso played for Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks until 2024 after which she was picked up by the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. Meanwhile, Ashlyn Watkins tore her ACL in January this year, and was ruled out of this NCAA season.
Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks To Meet Maryland For Sweet 16
Dawn Staley will be holding her breath this weekend as her precious South Carolina Gamecocks meet the Maryland Terrapins for the Sweet 16 round. Staley has been coaching South Carolina since 2008, and will be eager to push her team to the next Elite Eight round.
South Carolina finished their regular season second in the Southeastern table with a 15-1 conference score and 32-3 overall, just one spot below the ruling Texas Longhorns who finished 33-3 overall.
In the NCAA second round, the South Carolina Gamecocks took on the Indiana Hoosiers and slayed with a final score of 64-53. Bree Hall was the lead scorer for the team with 11 points, while Sania Feagin and Chloe Kitts each put up ten points for the team.
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