Dawn Staley Previews Matchup With LSU Tigers

Dawn Staley met with the media on Friday to discuss the South Carolina Women's Basketball team's impending battle with the LSU Tigers.

Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team only have a few roadblocks remaining in the regular season, and they're about to face one of them on Sunday in the LSU Tigers. It's a matchup involving the last two remaining undefeated women's college basketball teams, giving Sunday two headline sporting events along with Super Bowl 57. Add in the fact that this game could decide who the SEC regular season champions will be, and according to Dawn Staley, it makes the game even more important to South Carolina.

“I think they are definitely some things that are near and dear to us, and you take sole possession of first place of the regular season conference race, yeah that’s a big deal. We want to win championships and in order for us to not be looking at the standings the way that we [would if we] lose the basketball game, it’s tough, so we’ll give it a good go.

Of course, the biggest matchup that the entire country will have their eyes on is Aliyah Boston versus Angel Reese, two national player of the year candidates. When Dawn was asked how the Gamecocks could stop Reese, she paid her the biggest compliment an athlete could get.

“I mean there isn’t really any stopping her. I think with someone like Angel, you gotta make her play on both sides cause she’s super active, she’s relentless, she goes hard all the time. So we gotta try to make sure that we use all our depth to show her different looks, lean on her a little bit, just try to tire her out, but she’s just a machine when it comes to rebounding the basketball and just winning, she’s a competitor."

Although Angel Reese is the bigger name on the LSU Tigers' squad, Coach Staley conveyed a real worry when asked how Carolina could slow down guard Alexis Morris, as she emphasized the impact Morris has in every aspect of the Tigers' offense.

“She’s efficient, she can create her own shot, she’s able to facilitate, I mean she’s been in this league for a long time, and she’s just good," she implored. "She scares me, her production scares me because there’s really no flaws in her game, she finds the right people, she makes the right decision and she can flat out shoot the basketball, she can score however she wants to score.”

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