Dawn Staley is now the highest-paid women’s basketball coach in the country. South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved a new contract extension for Staley on Friday that will pay her $4 million a season. Staley’s new annual salary marks an $800,000 raise from the $3.2 million she was making this season.

South Carolina women's basketball forward Joyce Edwards, coming off the bench, scored 18 points in her fourth straight game as the team's top scorer.

Nearly everyone in the women’s college basketball world knows South Carolina’s roster embodies two attributes – quality and depth – that few others in the sport possess. Kim Mulkey was reminded of that fact on Friday during LSU’s 66-56 loss to the Gamecocks,