No. 4 South Carolina WBB pummels Purdue, finishes 2-0 in Fort Myers Tip-Off
At halftime, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley praised her team’s connectedness on defense, and that group was possibly even more suffocating than usual. After Purdue (4-3) scored its 10th point with 5:26 to go in the first quarter, South Carolina (7-1) allowed only eight points in the next 15-plus minutes, running out to a 53-18 lead.