To Dawn Staley, it was the right thing to do. But to UCLA females’s basketball coach Cori Close, what South Carolina ladies’s basketball’s coach chose to do in the heat of competitors speaks volumes about Staley.
In the 3rd quarter of No. 1 seed South Carolina’s Sweet 16 win over 4-seed UCLA on Saturday afternoon, Bruins sophomore forward Emily Bessoir got tangled up with All-American Aliyah Boston and went down with what appeared to be a leg injury.
The Gamecocks transitioned to the other end of the flooring on offense in the circulation of the videogame, and as their belongings continued while Bessoir remained down on the court on the other end, Staley called a timeout so the hurt gamer might be tended to.
“I wear’t like to see gamers go down in any circumstance,” Staley stated after the videogame. “If we can control the circumstance, we can get − you neverever understand what type of injury it is, so you desire to get medical attention over to them as rapidly as possible.
“It was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do to make sure the young girl was OK.”
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