The 2022 NCAA Tournament begins on Friday, March 18, and each day this week, Swish Appeal will be diving into one region at a time to prepare you for the madness that is to come. We continue today with Greensboro.
How the No. 1 seed got here
The South Carolina Gamecocks were the wire-to-wire No. 1 team in the nation this season and boast wins over the current No. 2, 3, 5, 9, 13 and 18 teams in the country and two wins over No. 15 Kentucky. Their only losses have been to a the second team out of the tournament (Missouri on Dec. 30) and Kentucky (in the SEC Tournament championship game on March 6).
South Carolina won the national championship in 2017 — A’ja Wilson’s junior year. Since then, the Gamecocks have continued to be a perennial power with exits coming in the Elite Eight, Sweet Sixteen and Final Four. In 2020, when the tournament was canceled, South Carolina was No. 1 AP team at season’s end and was robbed of the chance to pursue a title. Needless to say, the…
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