South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley has asserted multiple times this season that assistant coach Winston Gandy was head coach material. Coach Staley’s assessment proved to be correct as,

South Carolina’s women’s basketball head coach, Dawn Staley is clearly one of the elite coaches in the sport. In 16 seasons as the leader of the Gamecocks women’s team, she has won three national championships and has led them to six final four appearances in the last nine years.