South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley has often spoken about her penchant for making sure the Lady Gamecocks schedule HBCUs . In recent media availability, she spoke about it in full after answering a question about playing other competitive out-of-conference foes in comments obtained by WACH's Jared Parker.

“Scheduling is hard.  People don't wanna play us. I mean, even having lost what we lost, I mean, it's really, really a hard thing. So, instead of, the big competitive games. We've added some HBCUs. Just to lift up every aspect of our sport.  Not every team will go and play an HBCU on their home court. And we feel like, you know, great game, great competition, great coaching, and if we can, if we can, if we can lift, um, because we play the game and give some notoriet

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