The defending champion South Carolina women’s basketball team has kept its March Madness repeat dream alive by edging out Duke 54-50 to make it to the Final Four. But that’s not the only goal that victory achieved for head coach Dawn Staley.

South Carolina director of player development Freddy Ready has been with the program since 2002 and has a method to the celebratory net-cutting.

At least two No. 1 seeds will be in the Final Four of women’s NCAA Tournament . Two more could book trips to Tampa, Florida, on Monday. South Carolina kept its repeat championship hopes alive and reached its fifth straight Final Four with a grinding 54-50 win over Duke on Sunday.

The top-seeded Gamecocks, defending national champions, got all they could handle from second-seeded Duke, winning 54-50.

Half of the women's Final Four is set after 1-seeds UCLA and South Carolina won in the regional finals Sunday.

UCLA eclipsed 30 wins for the first time in program history, and the Bruins were rewarded with the No. 1 overall seed.

When South Carolina’s season was on the line Sunday, Dawn Staley went to Chloe Kitts. Duke had just air-balled a go-ahead 3-point attempt, and the Gamecocks had a 52-50 lead and the ball with seven seconds left in their NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game.

Kitts got to the line and nailed her sixth and seventh free throws of the game to give the Gamecocks a four-point lead in their women's NCAA Tournament regional final. “Coach (Dawn Staley) drew up the play and she said the ball was going to get to me,