{"id":48990,"date":"2015-03-24T03:50:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/womens_basketball_top_seed_south_carolina_rolls_on_to_reach_ncaa_sweet_16\/"},"modified":"2015-03-24T03:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:50:02","slug":"womens_basketball_top_seed_south_carolina_rolls_on_to_reach_ncaa_sweet_16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48990","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN) Womens Basketball Top seed South Carolina rolls on to reach NCAA Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded South Carolina was determined not to get in another tight contest with feisty Syracuse. The Gamecocks will need a similar drive to reach NCAA tournament heights they haven&#8217;t before.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Mitchell and Alaina Coates each scored 14 points and South Carolina (32-2) built a big first-half lead and cruised to its third Sweet 16 in four years with a 97-68 NCAA tournament victory over Syracuse on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was a vast reversal from November&#8217;s Junkanoo Jam finals when the Orange led by double digits in the second half before falling 67-63. Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley said her players came out with a fire and focus apparent at Saturday&#8217;s practice and pre-game shoot around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncw\/recap?gameId=400786315\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded South Carolina was determined not to get in another tight contest with feisty Syracuse. The Gamecocks will need a similar drive to reach NCAA tournament heights they haven&#8217;t before. Tiffany Mitchell and Alaina Coates each scored 14 points and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48990\">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":[39,54,111,128,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education","category-sports","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48990","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=48990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}