Don’t count out South Carolina, plus a quick look in NCAA soccer & volleyball, the PWHL, and NWSL free agency

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In today’s episode, Claire takes a look at Golden State’s expansion draft and South Carolina’s great week dominating two Top 10 matchups. She then takes a trip around the world of women's sports, including NWSL free agency, and more notes on college soccer, NCAA volleyball, PWHL hockey and more.

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0:00.0	I think that South Carolina is going to be so much stronger for the schedule that they've faced.
0:04.6	They're going to be so much stronger for the loss that they took.
0:07.2	And I think that is the ethos of how Don Staley wants South Carolina to play this year,
0:11.4	which is that you're going to make mistakes.
0:13.1	Things aren't always going to be working, but are you hustling back on defense?
0:15.8	Are you getting back to the defensive identity and turning that into offense?
0:18.8	And we're seeing that from the gamecocks. I think South Carolina can absolutely win the entire NCAA this year.
0:28.9	Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's edition of the late sub. I am your host, Claire Watkins.
0:33.1	It is Monday, December 9th. And we're going to take a little walk around once again in the world
0:37.8	of women's sports. We're going to talk about the WMBA Golden State Expansion Draft. We're
0:41.4	going to talk about some of the moves in the AP top 25 for college basketball. We got college
0:46.6	volleyball, college soccer, PWHL, we got some NWSL movement. There's a lot of stuff happening
0:51.7	both on and off the court, big end of year vibes. And there's a lot to discuss happening both on and off the court big end of year vibes and there's a lot
0:55.2	to discuss so let's jump in all right so this is starting to feel i think very year endy in a way
1:01.7	we're seeing a lot of business being done off the court off the field we're seeing people plan for
1:06.3	2025 there are some nice college wrap-up things going on, whether it's volleyball or college
1:11.1	soccer. You're seeing those seasons end. You're seeing college basketball is maybe the one big
1:15.2	through line of what we're seeing through the winter into the early spring. But it's been a nice
1:19.7	mix, actually, this weekend of some really interesting business things off the court, off the field,
1:23.9	and some interesting things going on on the court, particularly in volleyball, basketball.
1:28.8	And like I said, we're seeing the wrap up of college soccer. No spoilers when this comes out.
1:32.7	So I want to talk a little bit about some of the businessy stuff, some of the offseasony stuff.
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