Congratulations, University of South Carolina
NCAA Women’s Basketball Champions!
The Gamecocks’ 2024 NCAA Women’s basketball championship victory marked another milestone for Coach Dawn Staley, adding to her impressive collection of trophies, which includes two previous national championship wins in 2017 and 2022.
Staley has been named National Coach of the Year four times (2014, 2020, 2022, 2023) with her 2020 unanimous selection making her the first former Naismith Player of the Year to earn the Naismith Coach of the Year award. She is a six-time SEC Coach of the Year and was the 2012 BCA Female Coach of the Year.
Staley is the only Gamecock basketball coach—men’s or women’s—to amass 300 victories at South Carolina and became the fastest coach to 200 wins in program history, needing just 277 games at South Carolina to reach the plateau. She is the program’s all-time winningest coach (402) with a program-record 12 postseason appearances; she is also the only Black head coach in men’s or women’s basketball to win multiple national championships.
Under her leadership, the South Carolina Gamecocks finished the season with a perfect 38-0 record, making them just the 10th team in women’s basketball history to achieve an undefeated season.
