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<\/p>\nSouth Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley is under a month from the start of a new season.<\/p>\n
Staley is entering her 18th year and is arguably one of the greatest of all time. She has coached the Gamecocks to three NCAA championships and four more Final Fours.<\/p>\n
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Ahead of the season opener on Nov. 3 against the Grand Canyon Lopes, Staley has been making her rounds on her public speaking tour.<\/p>\n
Staley is going around talking about her life through her new book, called “Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Staley made a big announcement on social media about her upcoming appearance at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina.<\/p>\n
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South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley.\u00a9 Kevin Whitlock / Massillon Independent / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n
She revealed that Gamecocks legend A’ja Wilson will join her.<\/p>\n
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“COLUMBIA, y\u2019all ready for this one?!? \ud83d\udd25\u2604\ufe0f OUR HOF, 4 X MVP, Olympian and World Champion is coming HOME \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc0 @aja22wilson will be joining me and @cthagod this Friday, October 24th at Colonial Life Arena for an Uncommon Favor conversation. It\u2019s going to be a night of truth, purpose, and the full circle power of coming HOME. Don\u2019t miss it!”<\/p>\n
Wilson, a South Carolina native, will return back to the school where won a national championship at in 2017.<\/p>\n
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Wilson is coming off her third WNBA championship in four seasons with the Las Vegas Aces. She’s also a two-time Finals MVP and four-time WNBA MVP.<\/p>\n
Related: Dawn Staley Announces Emotional Homecoming Event at South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Oct 22, 2025, where it first appeared in the College Basketball<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley is under a month from the start of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7635,8787,5613,2083,133337,4677,5614,1782,99,434],"class_list":["post-242808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson-2","tag-basketball-head-coach","tag-columbia","tag-dawn-staley","tag-grand-canyon-lopes","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}