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Think Pink Sunday: USC Women's Basketball

The USC women’s team plays Ole Miss on Sunday, 3pm at the Colonial Center. 

At the last several games, USC has been giving away pink piggy banks.  Now, those who’ve picked up a bank can bring it back, give the money collected to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, get a game day t-shirt, and keep the bank.

Even if you didn’t pick up a bank, come to the game and cheer USC’s women to another SEC victory. 

In their win Sunday over Arkansas, the Gamecocks’ Demetress Adams broke a 33-year-old school record with 26 rebounds.  Afterwards she said, "I was surprised. I didn't even know that I had 26 rebounds. I just went to the boards and did what my team needed me to do."   

Yesterday,  USC Head Coach Susan Walvius made time for a skirt! photo shoot before heading to Vanderbilt for tonight’s game.  (Look for her profile in the March issue.) She talked about the important role women coaches and WNBA players fill by providing girls with female role models in basketball.  It’s an advantage girls growing up 25-30 years ago didn’t really have.

The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association is one of the organizations behind Think Pink to raise breast cancer awareness.  More than 800 schools are participating during this year’s Think Pink week, February 8-17.

For ticket information, go to gamecocksonline.com.