{"id":111053,"date":"2022-04-04T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111053"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:38:37","slug":"the-state-champs-south-carolina-captures-2022-national-title-with-win-over-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111053","title":{"rendered":"(The State) Champs! South Carolina captures 2022 national title with win over UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina set sights on its ultimate goal \u2014 winning the national championship \u2014 before the season\u2019s first tip. <\/p>\n<p>The Gamecocks turned their goal into reality Sunday night, winning the 2022 NCAA tournament championship with a win over the UConn Huskies. Dawn Staley\u2019s Gamecocks (35-2) defeated Geno Auriemma\u2019s Huskies 64-49 in front of a sellout crowd at Minneapolis\u2019 Target Center in the matchup\u2019s second meeting of the 2021-22 season. South Carolina\u2019s win solidified the program\u2019s second national title and first since 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Both of the Gamecocks\u2019 championships have come under Staley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/sports\/college\/university-of-south-carolina\/usc-womens-basketball\/article260073170.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gamecocks senior Destanni Henderson turns in a career-best performance in the victory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YiKAAIV4W0\">https:\/\/t.co\/YiKAAIV4W0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The State Newspaper (@thestate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thestate\/status\/1510803277058875396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina set sights on its ultimate goal \u2014 winning the national championship \u2014 before the season\u2019s first tip. The Gamecocks turned their goal into reality Sunday night, winning the 2022 NCAA tournament championship with a win over the UConn<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111053\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,128,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-sports","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111057,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111053\/revisions\/111057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}