Lady Vols coach Kim Caldwell was back on the court a week after giving birth, and South Carolina's Dawn Staley said "other women should honor them."

South Carolina suffered a major blow at the beginning of January when Ashlyn Watkins suffered a torn ACL against Mississippi State. The injury ended her 2024-25 season after 14 games. Watkins averaged 7.2 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.9 blocks per game before the injury and was a key frontcourt reserve for the team.

Oh, baby. Dawn Staley’s gone and done it again. She’s built another dogged, dynamic, determined South Carolina women’s basketball team.

The Volunteers, the nation’s No. 1 scoring offense, learned the hard way just how dominant South Carolina’s defense has been. Tennessee was held to new season lows in shooting percentage (30.7%), 3-point percentage (11.5%) and field goals made (23) in the game.

Illinois women’s basketball beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Joe Vozzelli breaks down the poll released Monday — and shares his ballot:

Women have the strength of ten men, no doubt about it,” South Carolina’s four-time national coach of the year Dawn Staley said of her counterpart’s remarkable feat Monday

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell returned to the sideline a week after giving birth to a son and was greeted with a standing ovation from a crowd of 12,033 on Monday night. Caldwell missed only one game for the Lady Vols after having her first child — Thursday night's 80-76 loss at then-No. 7 Texas.

Dawn Staley talked about Kim Caldwell returning to coach the Lady Vols against South Carolina one week after the birth of her son.

Here are CBS Sports' midseason awards.  Hannah Hidalgo is a versatile guard who is impactful on both ends of the court. She is one of the top scorers in the nation, averaging 25.4 points per game thanks to her ability to score at all three levels.

See where South Carolina women's basketball and coach Dawn Staley stand in the rankings after beating LSU on Friday, picking up win No. 7 in SEC play.

No. 5 LSU (20-1, 5-1) dropped its first game of the season Friday at No. 2 South Carolina (19-1, 7-0), 66-56, as the Gamecocks held the Tigers