MORNING HEADLINES | South Carolina’s women’s basketball team smacked Texas 64-45 Sunday in Greenville to win its third consecutive Southeastern Conference title. It was the team’s ninth conference championship in its history.
Sunday’s game was the third time the teams met this year with each winning earlier at home.
“I think we needed to play a lot better than the last time that we played them and I do think we used our experience being here to our advantage,” Coach Dawn Staley told reporters. “It’s just different playing on this Sunday. And if you haven’t really experienced it, you need to experience it.”
Staley added she thought her team, ranked 5th nationally before Sunday’s win over the top-ranked Longhorns, should be first in the coming NCAA tournament brackets.
“When you win this tournament and play the schedule that we play, I do think we’re the No. 1 overall seed,” Staley told the Associated Press. “We manufactured our schedule to put ourselves in this situation. So I hope the committee doesn’t discount our entire resume.
“There isn’t anybody in the country that has played the schedule that we have played, that had a share of the regular season title, won this tournament and beat the No. 1 team in the country. … there is no one.”
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In weekend headlines:
CP OPINION, Brack: Skipping down Columbia’s craziness lane. “About this time every year, the South Carolina General Assembly has been in session long enough to figure out the craziness trajectory of the year. On a scale of 1 (not crazy) to 10 (nutso), this year is probably a 7. But lawmakers still have three months left to startle, amaze and polarize us.”
CP NEWS: S.C. House to kick off debate on new $14.1 billion budget. Members of the S.C. House today will start consideration of the $14.1 billion state budget, a document they’ve been reviewing for the last week or so. Big areas in the proposed budget include $1 billion in tax relief; higher pay for teachers to a $48,500 per year minimum; and a limit to the state’s tuition freeze at colleges.
- Full new issue of Statehouse Report
- Trump tariffs lead to “stagflation” concern in S.C.
- Charleston business targets single-use plastic pollution
CP FOOD: Ma’am Saab hosts zesty brunch at Charleston Food + Wine. The Sunday brunch at Ma’am Saab in downtown Charleston was so good last year that Ray and Janet Caputo came back this year during Charleston Food + Wine Festival.
State executes inmate by firing squad. South Carolina became the first state in 15 years to execute an inmate on death row by firing squad Friday when it put Brad Sigmon,, 67, to death. The convicted murderer was declared dead after officials shot three bullets at a target placed over his heart.
Legal battle may loom over Mace’s accusations. After U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., accused four men of serious crimes last month, a legal battle may be brewing to explore whether her speech was protected in comments after she spoke on the House floor.
How Charleston Co. used 2016 sales tax money. Only one road project is finished from funds from a 2016 tax. An update on what’s happened.
- Charleston Co. agrees to sell Morrison Dr. property — with stipulation
- Another tall Charleston building facing scrutiny
- Dockside misses Charleston’s reporting deadline
GUN VIOLENCE: Coroner identifies man killed Saturday in North Charleston
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