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GOOD FOLLOW - The Real SC has been Crowned! Is Sarah Strong the best in the NCAA? Project B Signs Another, & More!
18 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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to Good Follow, presented by DraftKings. I'm Roz Goldonbure, and she is Angel McCautry, five-time WNBA All-Star, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and the homie. The homie. What's up, Angel? How you doing? We here. We got to put your accolades in the script to the end. Come on. Right. I mean, like, what would be mine? Like, I don't even know. You're on the Good Follow wall.
Oh, the good teammate wall. Okay. Like, what am I known for? I'm known for Red Lobster Chetabiscus, five-time Red Lobster All-American. Like that's how I'm known in the streets. But no, I mean, how was your weekend? It's been pouring rain in L.A., like torrential downpour.
It's been pouring, pouring in L.A., but I got to do some fun stuff. I got to go to Eddie Murphy's screening. Did you meet Eddie? I met Eddie and I punked out on getting a picture, y'all. I punked out. You respected his face. Yeah, because everybody was in his face.
That is a big moment to navigate. One, you can act like you've been there before. But this is Eddie Murphy, so it's big levels, right? But also respecting his personal space and his event and stuff.
Yeah, and that's what I want to do. Being a new filmmaker, I didn't want to seem like I'm... Because inside, I'm like, oh my God. I was acting cool, y'all.
That's why you need to have the homie there or your content creator there. Can you come with me next time, Roz? I'm the friend. I'd have been there with you. And I'd have been like, oh, first of all, I've been taking the pictures when nobody, candids. And then I'm the one that makes you look like you're not thirsty. I'd be like, oh my God, Angel, Eddie, come on, let's take a picture.
See, that's what we need. Okay, next time we rolling.
I'm that five-time WNBA all-star, two-time Olympic gold medalist, Roz, the friend that'll get you the picture. And with that, we all have our roles in this life. Let me take you to today's menu on this show. Breaking down the battle of the SEs. So South Carolina and Southern Cal faced off at Crypto.com Arena. Then there were some insane NCAA stat lines that came out of this weekend of play.
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Chapter 2: What was at stake in the Battle of the SCs?
So I'm really not surprised that these players are doing well. It's Dawn for me.
Yeah, and Dawn we trust is a good motto to have. And I feel like it was a Dawn Staley win in the sense that there was a culture for this program and you saw them lean on it to get the win over the Trojans. Like for the Trojans on the other side, the hype was coming in on Jazzy Davidson. The freshman, she was bowling out, 21-point game in the upset against the top 10 team in NC State.
And, you know, versus Dawn and those Gamecocks, she was held to four for 11 shooting, eight points, four turnovers. She looked like a freshman. And, you know, ultimately you go back to the Gamecocks. Even though they got all these things they're figuring out and new players and new roles, they have a culture. Defense, rebounding. Defense, limited Jazzy Davidson.
They held the Trojans to seven points in the fourth quarter. Wow. And they out-rebounded them 56 to 32. Wow. So you talk about, like, all right, we figuring some things out. But at the end of the day, we're going to defend. We're going to rebound. And so, like, that's the sign of a great program.
It's the sign of a great program. South Carolina definitely leaned on their physical dominance, like you said, rebounding, interior control in this game. That's maybe what they're starting to be. You know, we've seen in the past that South Carolina wasn't really known as a defensive team. They like to score and just use overpower from the athleticism.
But now I think Donna's really honing in like, hey, we want to win a championship this year. We saw what happened last year. We got to play some defense. And they're showing that early in the season. Let's go.
Let's keep it moving because there were some insane box scores and stat lines that came out of women's college basketball this past weekend. Here's some standouts. Okay, we're taking it to UConn. Sarah Strong versus Ohio State. Wow. 29 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals, 3 blocks. But I'm impressed with 12 for 17 field goal shooting. The efficiency. 2 for 4 from 3. My God, the range.
Zero turnovers! What?! Oh my gosh, as a sophomore? Okay, Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo versus Akron. 44 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists. Wait for it. 16 steals! Jesus Christ. What the hell? In 28 minutes... My goodness. And we already know she's a dog. She loves to D up and get all up in you and just bring the energy. Against Michigan later, she did struggle, you know, in the next game.
But boy, oh boy, is she something special. Then Iowa State junior, Audi Crooks. Did all this in 20 minutes against Valaprazo. 20 minutes. I mean, some of these preseason games are crazy. Or not preseason, excuse me. Just out-of-conference games. 43 points, seven rebounds, two assists. She shot nearly 80%. My goodness. Okay.
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Chapter 3: How is South Carolina finding its identity this season?
But you're supposed to score 40 on them teams with your talent. I want to score 40 on UConn, on Ohio State, on Stanford. That's when I want to score 40. If I can score 20 against those teams... You're showing that you're one of the best. That's how I think about it. Yeah, I mean, so you want to bring up UConn.
And this is the top team in the nation, right? Some people are saying they'll go undefeated this season. I mean, when I'm looking at this UConn team, that ultimately, let me look at this UConn team. So in this game against Ohio State, they forced 24 turnovers. They got 37 points off those turnovers. I mean, Ohio State, you know, did lose some players in the transfer portal and this and that.
I mean, it's still not like, you know, This is a program. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. 37 points off those turnovers. They had 30 assists. My goodness. They shared that ball. They're playing with pace. All this versus Ohio State. We had talked about how ridiculous the stat line was for Sarah Strong. AZ Fudd, 19.7 assists. The transfer, Sarah Williams, 5 for 7 shooting, 12 points.
I mean, let's just have... And this was in front of a big audience. Jose Fernandez, Rashid Mezian, Sandy Brandello, all head coaches in the WNBA were there to watch all of these studs and stars for UConn. But one thing's been consistent with UConn Over the decades, over the years, when you and I played them, there's a UConn way. There's a way. There's a UConn way.
And I think the only thing that's been in the way in the years where they haven't been Final Four, it's been a health issue. What's the UConn way that you remember?
Honestly, can I first say this? If I'm a coach, if I ever become a coach, I will mock UConn's system to the T. Why not?
We did that. We did that one year. We played UConn. This is Stanford Women's Basketball. We played UConn one year in a preseason tournament, like in the Island Jam or something. And they bust us up. For the rest of the season, we basically stole their offense and ran it exactly like them and practiced it every day. We basically prepared our whole season.
And then we saw them in the Final Four and beat them.
Guys, I don't know what coaches are doing. Don't have an ego. Your coach was a legendary coach. The fact that she could do that and not have an ego about it. It's genius. Mock the best coaches that have proven it over and over. I'm going to mock their system. When I play under Gino for the Olympic team. I could score 20, 30 points off like shooting five field goals.
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