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South Carolina Women Practice Against Men Team Called 'The Highlighters'

By Larry Leo•Nov 1, 20232:20 pm•

ESPN's Elle Duncan was at Colonial Life Arena this Tuesday to watch the South Carolina women's basketball team host a scrimmage against a group of men...

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double d•35 months

Baylor has been doing that for a long time, as do most colleges. But Dawn Staley wants you to think she came up with this.

deathvalleytiger10•35 months

We had a team at Tech that played against the Lady Techsters in the 80's. This is nothing new.

Geaux Guy•35 months

LSU does too. Dawn is feeling the pressure to be perceived as innovative. Still hope the Eagles start to suck and Saints get better. Would love to see Kramer’s mom in a Saints Jersey when we play them.

Black n Gold•35 months

Playing a short, non-athletic intramural mens team to get better is admitting that men are substantially better at basketball.

tigergirl26•35 months

LSU does this too so...

qman91•35 months

Really I did not know. That's awesome.

POTUS2024•35 months

Clay Travis should pay them to play a boys high school team.

Warfarer•35 months

Are they called the Highlighters because they're a bunch of nerds that highlight stuff in their books? The one game shot they showed, the guys weren't even attempting to play defense.

Geaux Guy•35 months

Fluffers

Geaux Guy•35 months

Average boy HS teams are good competition for elite college WBB teams.

Ziggy Pop•35 months

LA Tech did this in the early 80’s.

Leopold•35 months

This isn't new. Pat Summit had a men's team that she used regularly to practice against her team and I'm pretty sure she took some grief for it in some way.

TouchdownTony•35 months

When I was in 7th grade our 7th and 8th grade team (that would finish the regular season 6-10) scrimmaged the Varsity girls that would go on to the win the girls state title.
Our 7th grade team beat them 59-41.

BobABooey•35 months

LSU men’s basketball does this every season when they play Ole Miss.

BBATiger•35 months

Almost as much white as yellow.

jscrims•35 months

UConn has been doing this since the early 90’s.

UltimateHog•35 months

Why not just scrim their mens programs they could probably beat Lamont Paris' squad.

Geaux Guy•35 months

They’d never get a shot off.

Tigershatebama•35 months

Knew a guy 2002-2006 that did this at LSU. He worked at the rec center and actually wore a highlighter yellow shirt to all of the men’s and women’s basketball games. This is “pretend” innovative on Staley’s part AND borderline copycat on the highlighter part.

Tigershatebama•35 months

When I say he did this, he was part of the scrimmage practice squad for the women’s team

KillTheGophers•35 months

Some great games I saw as a kid were guys playing against the Lady Techsters. Very entertaining

NebraskaExPat•35 months

I've heard of quite a few women's college teams that do this. It might not be against organized men's teams, but it's some good men players who can give the women good competition.

TailbackU•35 months

Chick ball still sucks

jatilen•35 months

Patting themselves on the back for beating a bunch of short white guys who can't play basketball?

TigahTeeth•35 months

Nobody’s said that they’re even beating the short white guys. They honestly probably can’t.

GoldenDawg•35 months

Knew a male student at Baylor that was part of a men's team that regularly scrimmaged against the women's team in 2012 that went 40-0 and won the National Championship. It was a pretty serious commitment and certainly paid off for the women's team that year.

Saunson69•35 months

My brother was at Baylor in 2006-2010 and he said a men's intramural team would scrimmage WBB team at Baylor and would win pretty much every game. These are guys that were white, drinking copious amounts of alcohol potentially, and may not have quit basketball after 7th or 8th grade.

Saunson69•35 months

may have quit*

Saunson69•35 months

may have quit*

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