“Absolutely,” Staley said when asked by SportsTalk’s Phil Kornblut if she was ready to declare USC the national champion. “I mean, we couldn’t have an NCAA tournament. And you go to the next best thing, which is your polls. I mean that’s what we’ve been judged by all season long. Some people didn’t have us at number one, some people still don’t have us as number one, but the majority, the majority of people have watched and the majority of people have voted, declared as the number one team in the country. Why not?”
The Gamecocks were No. 1 in the polls, and with no tournament to play. That’s enough for Dawn Staley.
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Why not Dawn. You'd take a trophy unearned? Not a good look, but that is Dawn.