How to Watch: Norfolk State at South Carolina

South Carolina's Women's Basketball team is looking to start the NCAA Tournament off right with a win at home against the Norfolk State Spartans.

The NCAA Tournament is here, and South Carolina's Women's Basketball team is looking to start hot in the First Round when they take on the Norfolk State Spartans. Dawn Staley's squad enters the tournament as the top overall seed and is looking to become just the fourth program in women's college basketball history to record an undefeated season.

However, the Gamecocks' round one opponent is nothing to sneeze at, as Norfolk State enters the game 26-6 and the reigning champion of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Spartans are led by Guard Camille Downs, who average has averaged 11.9 points per game this season. Downs is also an excellent perimeter defense and averages 3.4 steals a game, the fifth-highest in Division I. This defensive prowess that Downs displays on the floor runs in the fabric of the entire Spartans program, something Dawn Staley noted at a pre-tournament press conference on Thursday afternoon.

"They play hard [and] they play fast… we're prepping for them to play some man, to play some 3-2 zone," Dawn explained. "They're coached extremely well; they have the athletes to close out a lot of space on the floor, to cover a lot of space on the floor. They rebound the ball extremely well, and the want, they grinded it out against Howard, and they found themselves in the NCAA Tournament."

Despite the unique challenges Norfolk State will present to the Gamecocks on Friday afternoon, South Carolina has fair reason to be highly optimistic due to who they've knocked off to reach this point in the season.

How To Watch: Norfolk State at South Carolina

• Gameday: Friday, March 17th, 2023.
• Game time: 2:00 pm ET
• TV: ESPN
• Stadium: Colonial Life Arena (Columbia, SC)
• Live stream on fuboTV: Start with a 7-day free trial!

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