South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley reacts during the first half of a national semifinal Final Four game against Texas during the women's NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)2025-04-06T15:29:44Z Follow APs full coverage of March Madness. Get the AP Top 25 womens college basketball poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Dawn Staley and South Carolina hope to finish off a second straight season with an NCAA championship, which would give the Gamecocks a third title in four years.To do so, theyll need to beat Paige Bueckers and UConn on Sunday.A victory by Staleys squad would give her four titles tying her with Kim Mulkey for the third most behind UConns Geno Auriemma (11) and Tennessees Pat Summitt (8). The Gamecocks would join the Huskies and Lady Vols as the only schools to ever win three championships in a four-year span.Meanwhile, its been nine years since Auriemmas team won the championship, which capped off a run of four consecutive titles from 2013-16.UConn has reached the title game only once since 2016, and during that drought it has come up on the short end of heartbreaking last-second losses in the Final Four on buzzer-beaters. The Huskies last title game appearance came in 2022 when Staleys team beat UConn to start the Gamecocks current run of success, a game that ended Auriemmas perfect record in title games.The only UConn player who saw significant time in the title game three years ago against South Carolina was Bueckers. Shell be playing in her final game for UConn hoping to leave the school with a championship, joining many other Huskies greats who have played for Auriemma. ___AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-womens-bracket and coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here.