[81alum]

I just noticed this:

South Carolina starting guards Tiffany Mitchell and Khadijah Sessions were a combined 4-for-22 in the game. And Welch and Mitchell sat significant minutes with foul trouble in the first half, the Gamecocks going into the locker room down 11.

"They were clogging," Mitchell said. "Making it very difficult for us to drive into the lane."

North Carolina, in consultation with Hatchell -- still not with the team as she finishes treatment for leukemia -- came in with a new defensive game plan. Calder said he installed it yesterday.

"I'd rather keep that a little bit to ourselves," Calder said. "But for us not to have practiced it very much at all, Diamond and the players did a tremendous job adjusting."

But it was effective early against the Gamecocks and ultimately gave his team the ability to pull off the upset.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basket...-gamecocks

Anyone know what newfangled defense North Carolina played yesterday?

[81alum]

I just noticed this:

South Carolina starting guards Tiffany Mitchell and Khadijah Sessions were a combined 4-for-22 in the game. And Welch and Mitchell sat significant minutes with foul trouble in the first half, the Gamecocks going into the locker room down 11.

"They were clogging," Mitchell said. "Making it very difficult for us to drive into the lane."

North Carolina, in consultation with Hatchell -- still not with the team as she finishes treatment for leukemia -- came in with a new defensive game plan. Calder said he installed it yesterday.

"I'd rather keep that a little bit to ourselves," Calder said. "But for us not to have practiced it very much at all, Diamond and the players did a tremendous job adjusting."

But it was effective early against the Gamecocks and ultimately gave his team the ability to pull off the upset.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basket...-gamecocks

Anyone know what newfangled defense North Carolina played yesterday?