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Message: [QUOTE="JDuro, post: 4867334, member: 8351"] The ‘17-18 season, coming off their first NC, found the Gamecocks playing with a very depleted backcourt rotation. It was basically Ty Harris or BUST all year. The biggest loss was Bianca Cuevas-Moore missing the whole season due to a knee injury suffered in preseason. Lindsay Spann, the transfer CG from Penn St., who missed the previous season with a knee injury, was playing very well for SC shooting 45% from the arc in her 15 games played, but in early February, she too went down injuring her opposite knee, effectively ending her collegiate career. That was the season the Gamecocks tried to play it cute, waiting to get a waiver at mid season for Te’a Cooper but the NCAA didn’t bite. Ironically, PG Araion Bradshaw, who played sparingly in ‘16-17 as a freshman, then transferred to Dayton where she had a productive career as a 4 yr starter for the Flyers, would likely have played quite a bit that season if she had stayed in Columbia. Throw in the losses of Coates to graduation and Gray and Davis leaving early for the draft, I’ll always be amazed at the way A’ja Wilson put that team on her back and got them to the Elite 8. [/QUOTE]