On its face, it felt like a perfect match.
Sarah Strong was the No. 1 overall women’s basketball recruit, and she was Carolinas through and through. Her mother and her father played high school ball in South Carolina. Her mom was WNBA teammates with Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley in Charlotte. Strong herself was dominating the competition in Sanford, North Carolina, putting up monster numbers three hours from USC’s campus.
When a player has that sort of track record and that sort of background, Staley and her national championship-winning South Carolina program usually don’t miss…