On February 2, South Carolina Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley asserted that, in her opinion, UConn Huskies superstar freshman Sarah Strong doesn’t have the NCAA Freshman of the Year Award locked up quite yet.
“It’s not a one-woman race for National Freshman of the Year. So I’ve got to put a narrative out there that Joyce [Edwards] is doing some incredible things,” Staley said, per an X post from WACH Fox’s Jared Parker.
“We have a tendency to just focus on one [player], right? What [Joyce] has been able to do, with the type of schedule that we had, it’s not easy. It’s not easy. So I just don’t want people to forget what Joyce is doing over here, because we’re not just going to allow awards to be given out with no consideration from our players here.”…