{"id":545801,"date":"2026-01-19T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:46:20","slug":"south-carolina-womens-basketball-rapid-reaction-coppin-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545801\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina women’s basketball: Rapid Reaction – Coppin State"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina cruised to a 90-48 win at Coppin State on Sunday. Here\u2019s what stood out from the game.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Alicia Tournebize made her debut against Texas, but she only played five minutes spread across two appearances. It was clear South Carolina didn\u2019t trust her with more than a few plays yet, but it\u2019s also hard to be productive when you basically only see two or three possessions on either side of the ball.<\/p>\n

Tournebize played 13 minutes against Coppin State and had a couple of extended looks. She scored eight points and added a rebound, an assist, a block, and a steal. She showed nice touch on her first basket, a short transition jumper, and later reached around the defender for an off-balance layup.<\/p>\n

Through two games, there is one clear trend with Tournebize. South Carolina\u2019s guards aren\u2019t quite sure where she will be when they look to pass, either on pick-and-rolls or off of dribble penetration, and passes have been off-target.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That is the challenge of joining midseason. Tournebize is getting lots of individual work with coaches, but that doesn\u2019t help with timing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rest of the team spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours getting used to each other in the offseason and the preseason. Not only did Tournebize miss out on that, but at this time of year, practice is dedicated more to game-planning for upcoming opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2013 In terms of statistics, South Carolina\u2019s bench didn\u2019t do anything special. Some of that was because Joyce Edwards was taking up all the baskets, but they contributed in other ways.<\/p>\n

Agot Makeer had six rebounds. Tournebize had her moments. Ayla McDowell hit a nice three-pointer. Maddy McDaniel continued to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the most important thing the bench did was eat up minutes. Ta\u2019Niya Latson played 26 minutes, the most on the team, and Edwards and Tessa Johnson played 25 minutes. That\u2019s a lot of valuable rest for them.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 There are a lot of creature comforts that power conference programs take for granted, like luxurious locker rooms, training rooms, and large support staffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experienced officials are another one. The three officials working Sunday\u2019s game each have three years of experience or less officiating college basketball, mostly in the MEAC and CAA.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t do a bad job, but you could tell, especially early on, that they were calling the game differently than how South Carolina is used to. There were also a few plays when they called fouls on South Carolina where I thought the play was clean, but they weren\u2019t used to South Carolina\u2019s athleticism.<\/p>\n

Young officials have to get experience somewhere, and that means starting off at the lower levels of college basketball. So, next time you are annoyed with the officials, remember it could be worse.<\/p>\n

(Reminder: College basketball officials do not work for conferences. There are no \u201cSEC refs\u201d or \u201cACC refs.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina cruised to a 90-48 win at Coppin State on Sunday. Here\u2019s what stood out from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,465],"class_list":{"0":"post-545801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115919243994049187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}