{"id":69653,"date":"2026-03-21T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/south-carolina-open-ncaa-tournament-with-69-point-thrashing-of-southern\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:14","slug":"south-carolina-open-ncaa-tournament-with-69-point-thrashing-of-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/south-carolina-open-ncaa-tournament-with-69-point-thrashing-of-southern\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina open NCAA Tournament with 69-point thrashing of Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Joyce Edwards scores 27 in Gamecocks romp<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>South Carolina open with 15-0 burst at home<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Southern held to two points in third quarter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joyce Edwards had 27 points and eight rebounds and No 1 seed South Carolina won their 17th straight home women\u2019s NCAA Tournament game with a 103-34 defeat of 16th-seeded Southern on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards and the Gamecocks (32-3) opened with a 15-0 burst and never let up against the Jaguars (20-14), the Southwestern Athletic Conference champions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/womens-ncaa-tournament-first-round-scores-recaps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Edwards scores 27 in Gamecocks romp South Carolina open with 15-0 burst at home Southern held to two points in third quarter Joyce Edwards had 27 points and eight rebounds and No 1 seed South Carolina won their 17th straight home women\u2019s NCAA Tournament game with a 103-34 defeat of 16th-seeded Southern on Saturday. &#8230; <a title=\"South Carolina open NCAA Tournament with 69-point thrashing of Southern\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/south-carolina-open-ncaa-tournament-with-69-point-thrashing-of-southern\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about South Carolina open NCAA Tournament with 69-point thrashing of Southern\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}