COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The second round of the Women's NCAA Tournament features a Monday night game between the USC Trojans and the USC Gamecocks, raising the question: Who is the real USC?
Ella Sather and Alyssia Hamilton, reporting for USA TODAY Sports Network, posed the question to the players from top-seeded South Carolina and No. 9 seed Southern California. The answers were somewhat expected but also ... enlightening.
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One Trojan said, "Honestly, before this, I've never heard anybody call South Carolina USC," while a Gamecock delivered this bit of possible bulletin-board material: "I actually didn't know they were a school until I got to college."
These players are likely to know each other pretty well after the second-round game, which we predict USC will win.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:USC and South Carolina face off in Women's March Madness. Which is the real SC?