{"id":648603,"date":"2026-03-09T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/648603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:56:13","slug":"south-carolina-womens-basketball-sec-tournament-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/648603\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina women&#8217;s basketball: SEC Tournament notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nets have been cut down, the confetti has been swept up, and the court is being pulled up. We wrap up the SEC Tournament from Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The All-Tournament team was MiLaysia Fulwiley (LSU), Cotie McMahon (Ole Miss), Joyce Edwards (South Carolina), Raven Johnson (South Carolina), Rori Harmon (Texas), Justice Carlton (Texas), and MVP Madison Booker (Texas).<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wellbaum\u2019s ballot (voters got five selections) was Fulwiley, McMahon, Edwards, Johnson, and Booker for MVP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mingo Martin\u2019s ballot was Johnson, Edwards, McMahon, Carlton, and Booker for MVP.<\/p>\n<p>NEW!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/boards\/forums\/womens-basketball.1235\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Message board for South Carolina Women\u2019s Basketball<\/a>! \ud83c\udfc0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Announced attendance for Sunday\u2019s championship game was 13,567, the all-time SEC Tournament single-session attendance record. Attendance records for each round were set on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Total attendance for the tournament was 74,038, which was also a record. The four highest-attended SEC Tournaments have come in the last four seasons, with each increasing over the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 2015 through 2018 South Carolina remains the only team to win four consecutive SEC Tournaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019ja Wilson remains the only player with a perfect 12-0 record in SEC Tournament games. Raven Johnson is 11-1 in SEC Tournament games that she played in. Johnson was on the roster but injured in 2022 when South Carolina lost in the title game to Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0 GamecocksW newsletter:<a href=\"https:\/\/gcon3.com\/wbbnwsltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> WBB coverage delivered straight to your inbox<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 South Carolina has only lost in the SEC Tournament Championship game one other time, that 2022 loss. The Gamecocks went on to win the National Championship that season. Dawn Staley hammered that message home after the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to think about that,\u201d Staley said. \u201cIt might be the very thing this team needs. It\u2019s not what I would think yesterday, coming in today. But now that we\u2019re here and it\u2019s a reality, you search for things that have a connection that can give your team what it needs to make this run for a National Championship. I do think we have enough in the room to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nets have been cut down, the confetti has been swept up, and the court is being pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,465],"class_list":{"0":"post-648603","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\/116198388142103637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648603","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=648603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}