South Carolina’s NCAA Title Odds Will Shock You

South Carolina has been the workforce to beat all season in faculty hoops and Fan Duel is treating them that method.

Proper now, the betting service is providing a line that has the 31-0 Gamecocks favored at -155 to win the nationwide title in comparison with the remainder of the sector at +115. The workforce has solely misplaced as soon as within the final two seasons with their lone defeat coming towards Kentucky in final yr’s SEC Championship. South Carolina ended up profitable the nationwide match later that month.

In February, Gamecocks head coach Daybreak Staley was requested if she thought the workforce was excited about its standing as an undefeated squad and if dropping within the SEC match final yr gave South Carolina motivation heading into the nationwide match in 2022. She pushed again on that concept, saying the workforce shall be prepared all through the postseason.

“I simply talked to our gamers about this immediately,” Staley stated on the time. “We don’t want a loss to make a push. Final yr did we’d like it? Perhaps. I don’t know. But it surely occurred. And it was a push that helped us.”

South Carolina has had a number of nail biters this season. Stanford took the Gamecocks to additional time final November whereas Ole Miss, who the workforce stampeded on yesterday, nearly upset them earlier than the SEC match. Nonetheless, Staley iterated her workforce is concentrated on what’s necessary: being ready no matter what the workforce or their opponent’s data is perhaps.

“They’re not coming into apply considering, ‘Oh, we’re undefeated,’” Staley stated of her workforce. “It’s not one thing within the forefront of their minds. Even after we performed as shut as we did within the additional time sport at Ole Miss, they by no means flinched. They didn’t give it some thought. They simply went into the mode of, ‘We’ve simply bought to do no matter it takes to win, nonetheless many minutes that’s.’”

South Carolina will face Tennessee on this yr’s SEC Championship.