Omaha World-Herald: Staley and Paris making South Carolina a basketball school

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South Carolina becoming a basketball school

If you're looking for stellar college basketball, there's few places better right now than South Carolina. Along with Dawn Staley's No. 1-ranked women's team, second-year coach Lamont Paris has the men's program off to its best start in eight years after Top-10 wins over Kentucky and Tennessee...

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Inside South Carolina's dual-gender basketball success: 'Culturally, it feels a lot different'

Welcome to the epicenter of college basketball. One of them, anyway. Welcome to Columbia, South Carolina, where both Gamecock programs are dreaming of deep March runs.

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Time for a little South Carolina all-gender math. The women and men are a combined 40-3, the best one-two punch in the nation. She wins, he wins. Only four schools are ranked in both polls this week: Connecticut, South Carolina, Baylor and Creighton. UConn has the slightly higher combined rankings with the men at No. 1 and the women at No. 11, compared to the South Carolina women at No. 1 and men at No. 15. So maybe Columbia is the co-epicenter with Storrs. But to even be considered in that conversation is new stuff for the Gamecocks.