Photos: University of South Carolina women's basketball players as preps
By Leland Gordon
Mar 27, 2015, 11:00pm
Before they spurred their team to the Elite Eight, Bianca Cuevas, A'ja Wilson, Daniyah Cliney, Alaina Coates and Elem Ibiam were prep powers.
The No. 1 seed in the Greensboro Regional in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament just moved on to the Elite Eight, and those South Carolina Gamecocks - as expected - have plenty of players who garnered major prep accolades.
South Carolina beat North Carolina Friday by a 67-65 score in a back and forth contest to stay alive in the tournament and will do battle against Florida State Sunday for a shot at the Final Four in Tampa, Florida.
Check out these photos of some of the Gamecocks' players when they were in high school. Three of them were playing their senior high school seasons just one year ago.
Freshman A'ja Wilson was last season's MaxPreps National Player of the Year at Heathwood Hall Episcopal (Columbia, South Carolina).
Courtesy photo
Freshman Bianca Cuevas was a MaxPreps All-American last season at Nazareth (Brooklyn, New York).
File photo by Mark Jones
Sophomore Alaina Coates of Dutch Fork (Irmo, South Carolina) was a fourth-team MaxPreps All-American in 2013.
Courtesy photo
Freshman Daniyah Cliney averaged 13.4 points per game for Shabazz (Newark, New Jersey) last season.
File photo by Richard Ta
Senior Elem Ibiam averaged 11.5 points and 12.2 rebounds per game for Fayette County (Fayetteville, Georgia) in 2010-11.
File photo by Stan Prophett
