Dawn Staley’s No. 1 South Carolina team beat No. 9 N.C. State 71-57 as part of a women’s college basketball doubleheader at the Ally Tipoff in Charlotte Sunday. A crowd of 15,424 — slightly more than came to watch Iowa and Caitlin Clark in the same event a year ago — attended.

The Gamecocks have a star sophomore forward of their own in Collin Murray-Boyles, who is averaging a double-double with 20.3 points and 10.7 rebounds per game and a 62.9% field goal percentage. Murray-Boyles reaches his production in a different way, having already shot 23 free throws in three games.

Three Coppin State women's basketball team members scored in double figures as the hosts defeated St. Francis 74-38 Tuesday morning. St. Francis fell to 0-3. Coppin State is 2-1. Coppin State's Laila Lawrence produced 19 points and 11 rebounds for a double-double.