We’ve seen Dawn Staley make declarations with her sideline style inthepast.
She used a Randall Cunningham jersey ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles’ look in this year’s Super Bowl and won her 2nd nationwide champion last season while decked out in Louis Vuitton.
On Sunday, while training her No. 1 seeded South Carolina Gamecocks to a 76-45 second-round triumph over No. 8 South Florida in a nationally telecasted NCAA competition videogame, Staley paid tribute to HBCU and females’s basketball history by sporting a throwback Cheyney State University jersey.
The jersey Staley used was exceptionally fresh and tidy, a white t-shirt with blue sleeves and lettering. It included the number 44, which belonged to Yolanda Laney, who played on the 1982 Cheyney State group that went to the nationwide champion videogame in Norfolk, Va.
Honoring the past with today’s drip 💧 @dawnstaley#MarchMadness x @GamecockWBB pic.twitter.com/MYeVBQrvpL
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessWBB) March 19, 2023
To this day, Cheyney State is the just HBCU group to ever advance to the Final Four in ladies’s college basketball, doing so in 1982 and1984 In 1982, the Wolves lost in the title videogame to a Louisiana Tech group led by a lively guard by the name of Kim Mulkey. In 1984, Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Volunteers topped Cheyney in the Final Four.
Those Cheyney groups were coached by Hall of Famer C. Vivian Stringer, who lateron guide