For the 10th time in Dawn Staley’s tenure as South Carolina’s head coach, the Gamecocks will be playing in the Elite Eight, hoping to advance to the Final Four for the sixth straight year.

But Staley is the first to admit how much things have changed in college basketball over the past few years. In a news conference ahead of the matchup against TCU on Monday, the longtime South Carolina coach got candid about how recruitment these days comes down to money.

"How much is it going to cost us? That's the conversation. You've gotta lead with that,” Staley said, when asked how the recruiting conversations have changed. “Because you don't really want to waste your time. You either are going to have enough to pay players, or you don't. And you move on. Because although you can promise a young person this or that, if your budget says otherwise — I don't like to promise anything that isn't available to us. I don't want to have to go out and get the money because you could be told no and then your back is against the wall.

“I won't say I lead with that question, but I get to it fairly quickly. After the pleasantries are done, you gotta get to the question so you're not wasting your time and spinning your wheels on somebody that you can't afford.”

Staley added that getting a college degree — once the primary incentive for playing collegiate sports — is less of a priority now, but that she works with players to ensure that their credits work out so that they can graduate.

“That's part of the conversation. But all of our kids graduate, all of them but one in my career,” she said. (Staley joked that she planned to “threaten” the one, who she did not name, on social media if she did not “get with the program.”)

Since the Supreme Court ruling in 2021 that made Name, Image and Likeness the lay of the land in the NCAA, player payment through endorsement deals is evolving year after year. And in conjunction with transfer portal changes, coaches have been outspoken about having to evolve with the landscape.

Earlier in the news conference, Staley noted that about a third of the team was built up of new players, meaning transfers and freshmen. Two members of the Gamecocks’ starting lineup are transfers: guard Ta’Niya Latson, who transferred after three seasons at Florida State, and center Madina Okot, who spent last season at Mississippi State. Maryam Dauda, a senior forward who played in most games this season off the bench, is also a transfer, coming in from Arkansas.

Latson and Okot hold the second- and third-most points per game on the Gamecocks’ roster, averaging 14.7 points and 13.4 points per game this season, respectively.

South Carolina will be facing off against a TCU squad led by two notable transfers: Olivia Miles, who transferred from Notre Dame last offseason, and Marta Suárez, who joined the Horned Frogs after two years each at Tennessee and Cal.

There was plenty to talk about after the United States men’s national team suffered a brutal 5-2 loss to Belgium on Saturday. But underlying the USMNT’s harsh reality check was another issue: the surprising similarity between the two team’s jerseys.

The USMNT was debuting one of its new kits for the 2026 World Cup: a white jersey with red stripes that emulate the American flag. But Belgium wore their away kit, which was also white with pink and light blue accents.

Up close, the two jerseys look nothing alike, but from a distance, the red accents and pink accents on the white jersey look far more similar. The result was a game where the main distinguishing factor was in the shorts: Belgium’s shorts were white, while the U.S.’s were dark blue.

Postgame, USMNT midfielder Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie both said that the jersey issue wasn’t “an excuse” for their poor performance, but both noted that it made the game a bit more “difficult.”

“That just can’t happen. It was a bit strange. It was very difficult. I didn’t know until we took off the pre-match shirts and then saw it and everyone was a bit shocked,” Pulisic said postgame. “When you a lot of times you get the ball, you look up like and you can’t really like lock in on someone. You only can base it off the color of the shirt. That’s how it works. And when it’s very similar, it’s difficult.”

“Whenever you do a quick glance to tell which was which, it was almost like a fifty-fifty thing,” McKennie added. “So you definitely had to maybe take a little bit more time on the ball before you made a decision or play one-touch to a player.”

Belgium, despite getting the dominant win, reportedly also agreed: Midfielder Amadou Onana told The Athletic that the jersey clash was “awful,” and Belgium goalkeeper Senne Lammens told the outlet that he brought up the issue to Belgium’s equipment staff at halftime.

However, per The Athletic, though both teams considered changing jerseys, neither team’s alternate jerseys were available. The Athletic reports that the USMNT considered going to get their other jerseys from the team hotel during the first half, but they would not have been able to bring them back in time.

A U.S. Soccer spokesperson told ESPN that the jerseys were approved by both teams and the referees multiple times ahead of the game, and that the referees did not find issue in the jersey matchup.

The USMNT’s other jersey, dark blue with stars, would have certainly served as better contrast to Belgium’s away kit. Natalie McKeough, a color designer with Nike who worked on the jersey, wrote on social media that the U.S.’s stripes jersey was approved as “the light kit” by FIFA.

“Whoever approved this matchup messed up fr,” she wrote.

The USMNT will play on Tuesday in another World Cup tune-up against Portugal. But breathe a sigh of relief: The U.S. will probably wear that dark blue kit for that game, leaving a similar clash with either of Portugal’s kits unlikely.

Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car crash near his home in Florida on Friday, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office. A statement obtained by multiple outlets says that the crash took place just after 2 p.m. ET on Jupiter Island, Florida. A photo from WPTV shows the car on its side in the middle of the road.

CBS 12 News reports that it was a two-car crash, and that one vehicle rolled over. One person is reportedly stable, while the other refused to go to the hospital, but no injuries are reported.

The crash reportedly took place near 281 Beach Road, about four miles north of Woods' home. 

Additional details on the incident are currently not available. Police are set to speak to media at 5 p.m. ET.

Woods made his return to professional golf on Tuesday as part of the TGL indoor golf final, where his Jupiter Links Golf Club came up short. It was Woods' first competitive golf since the 2024 Open Championship, after suffering a ruptured Achilles in March 2025 and another surgery for a lumbar disc replacement in October.

The question surrounding Woods as the calendar edges toward April is his status for next month's Masters. Prior to the accident, he had not said one way or the other if he will compete.

Jupiter Island is about 15 miles north of Palm Beach Gardens, where the TGL matches took place at the SoFi Center.

In 2021, Woods was involved in a single-car rollover crash in Los Angeles, suffering a shattered ankle and two leg fractures in the incident.

This story will be updated.