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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Almost in the shadow of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, No. 3 South Carolina and No. 4 Louisville played a game that was about entry into a select club.South Carolina is already in, just as its coach is enshrined among select company in the building across the highway from the MassMutual Center. Louisville is not yet in the club. The Cardinals have championship aspirations -- but not yet championship expectations.Connecticut, Notre Dame and South Carolina have those expectations.And after South Carolinas 83-59 win Sunday, that is how it is going to stay for now.I think our players really enjoy, they focus in a little bit more, when the competition is a little stiffer, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said of the high-profile matchup. So it was great to see them come out and play this way and rise to the level of a competitive basketball team.Were still in search of who we want to be on both sides of the ball.Possessing both the potential and personnel to be a lot of things on both sides of the ball, that ought to worry the rest of the country.Sunday started as if two participants thought it was a Hall of Fame audition. South Carolinas Kaela Davis and Louisvilles Asia Durr traded long jumpers as both teams shot better than 70 percent from the field for much of the first quarter. South Carolina has played that game before and won against a top-tier opponent. It opened the season by scoring 92 points in a win at Ohio State while shooting the Buckeyes out of their own arena. Even with Aja Wilson limited by foul trouble that night, Davis and Allisha Gray took on all comers.But that wasnt how South Carolina went about it Sunday. They didnt give Durr a chance to grow her legend in a duel.At Ohio State, Davis outscored the nations leading scorer. Against Louisville, the Gamecocks collectively silenced the rising star.We knew a lot goes through her, Staley said of Durr. Shes a big part of what they do and the flow of how they want to play. So it was really key to us to make her work for everything, maybe deny her some touches and kind of crowd her space a little bit.Durr hit the fourth shot of her torrid start with just over five minutes remaining in the first quarter. That 3-pointer tied the score at 13. She hit her fifth field goal with just over one minute remaining in the third quarter. In the time between those baskets, South Carolina outscored Louisville 48-28.In what remained of the first quarter and through the entirety of the second quarter, Durr took two shots and missed them both. Nor did she get to the free throw line. When South Carolinas Bianca Cuevas-Moore picked up early fouls, freshman Tyasha Harris came in and suffocated Durr.Making sure that they made her work really hard for it and put other people in positions to shoot the ball for them, Staley said of the plan. And maybe they werent ready to be the main focal point of their offense, because Durr has been that for the first couple of games of the season.Mariya Moore tried with some success to hit those shots for Louisville. Briahanna Jackson hit a couple off the bench. In foul trouble, Myisha Hines-Allen couldnt help. But in a second quarter that separated the teams and a third quarter that settled matters, Louisville looked like a team without answers on the offensive end. Nothing came easy.That it was Harris who was so instrumental is notable. A highly touted freshman from the same Indiana high school that sent Kelly Faris to Connecticut, Harris, in her fifth game, played the way complementary pieces must for championship contenders. She played South Carolina defense.The first thing I learned was drop-cross-run, said Gray, the transfer from North Carolina who spent last season practicing with South Carolina. We dont slide anywhere. Its easy to guard your opponent when you run and sprint to the space to beat your opponent.Staley said after the game that she wasnt satisfied with the defense, that there was too much gambling and not enough discipline. Tell that to Louisville coach Jeff Walz after his team shot 38 percent with 17 turnovers.I just thought the pace of the game, I thought we controlled that, Staley said. I thought Louisville wanted to play a little bit quicker from the games that Ive seen this year. They wanted to get up and down a little bit more. There were a lot of fouls in the game, so a lot of stoppage of play, which I think benefits us, because we can be more calculating offensively in what were trying to do. And thats to get the ball inside to our bigs.Ah yes, those bigs. The day didnt go perfectly for South Carolina, either. In a game with a lot of the aforementioned whistles, both Davis and Gray ended up on the bench in foul trouble for stretches of the pivotal second quarter. But while the Gamecocks collectively stifled their opponents on the defensive end, Wilson and Alaina Coates combined to outscore the Cardinals 10-9 on their own in the period.In a disappointingly empty arena, it wasnt difficult to make out Walzs instructions to his team as the game wore on. So much of it was centered around Wilson and Coates. About blocking them out every time the ball went up. About watching out for the high-low sets when Wilson would feed the ball to Coates on the block. About running the offense that limited their ability to dictate terms in the paint.Coates finished with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Wilson had 17 points, five assists and two blocks. South Carolina finished with 40 points in the paint and 17 more rebounds than Louisville.Hines-Allen on the court would have helped. But not to that degree.Theyre two of the best posts in the game, Walz said. [Coates] has a motor like I havent seen in a long time. ...She doesnt worry about who [theyre] playing. She just does it right because thats what youre supposed to do. I watch them on film, theyre up 30 at half, and shes sprinting the floor every single time.Asked if he thought South Carolina was really 24 points better than his team, Walz said no. Hes probably right. But the roles are set for now.Louisville has been to the Final Four, of course. The Cardinals have made that trip more often than South Carolina and played for the championship, something the Gamecocks have yet to do. 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NEW YORK -- These are tough and uncertain times for the New York Jets and their fans.Turn on local sports radio or check Twitter, and the frustration and desperation oozes right out of the speakers and jumps off the screen.Its open season on just about everyone, from owner Woody Johnson to general manager Mike Maccagnan to coach Todd Bowles to quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and cornerback Darrelle Revis.Thats what happens when the team is 3-8 after high hopes just a few months ago -- and the future is ominously cloudy.Sometimes in life, you take body blows, wide receiver Brandon Marshall said Monday. We all get hit and we all fall down and it hurts. Its disappointing, its scary and theres a lot of frustration and theres a lot of emotions there. Youve just got to pick yourself back up and deal with reality.After a 10-6 season, led by Fitzpatricks franchise-record 31 touchdown passes, huge years by Marshall and Eric Decker and a solid showing by Bowles defense, the next step for the Jets was expected to be a playoff appearance.They finished a win short of that a year ago, and a daunting early season schedule did little to temper those hopes within the organization. Then, the losses began piling. So did the injuries and the critical mistakes.Weve hit stumbling blocks throughout the year, Marshall said.And, now, the Jets are here: Theyll likely miss the postseason for the sixth straight year.Bowles seat is getting warmer by the week in only his second season and many fans are angry.The clusters of empty seats at MetLife Stadium on Sunday were as clear a signal that theyve had enough with the losing as the banners that flew around the practice field imploring Johnson to clean house two years ago.It would seem that Bowles is safe, at least to get to next season. But his repeated decision to stick with Fitzpatrick rather than turn to second-year quarterback Bryce Petty for the final stretch of games has been met with a collective shaking of heads from fans who have already put this season aside and want to start planning for next season.Frustrated. Its definitely not what you want, Bowles said of this season. None of us got to these positions by not handling adversity or going through adversity. We just have to keep fighting and keep swinging.But Bowles in-game management has been criticized, and the revelation that defensive line stars Muhammad Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson were late for a teeam meeting earlier this season had some wondering if cracks in the foundation are starting to show.ddddddddddddNo, no coaching change, cornerback Buster Skrine said. Todd Bowles is a great coach. We just need to finish (games). Coach cant go out there and play the game.Obviously, hes coaching us well enough to get us in situations to win. We just have to make plays at the end of the game.Such as in Sundays loss , when Tom Brady marched the Patriots down the field 83 yards for the go-ahead touchdown.Five of the Jets eight losses have been by margins of 10 points or fewer, and the blame from fans and media has often been directed at the coaching.They all hurt the same, Bowles said.Many Jets fans, however, arent sure where to turn to feel better. Well, other than that high draft spot.Fitzpatrick is a free agent and so is Geno Smith, leaving Petty and Christian Hackenberg as the only signed quarterbacks on the roster heading into the offseason.Revis has stunningly gone from being a shutdown cornerback to looking like a shell of himself. Hes due $13 million next season and his $15.3 million salary cap hit could make him an offseason casualty.Marshall is scheduled to make $7.5 million next year, and Decker is due to make $7.25 million.You never know in this business, said Marshall, when asked if he thinks hell be back before adding that hed like to retire someday with the Jets.Center Nick Mangold has played all 11 of his NFL seasons with the Jets, but his $9.075 million cap hit could have him looking for a new team next offseason.New York looked into trading Richardson during the deadline this year, and could be even more inclined to make a deal this offseason with him scheduled to make $8.069 million with the fifth-year option on his rookie deal.Thats a whole lot of money and familiar faces that could be cleared from the roster.There are still five more games to go before all of that, though. Bowles hopes there are a few wins along the way.You have to keep fighting and you have to become smarter at the same time, and only then will we get better, he said. Were working on that every day. Were fighting going forward and weve been through adversity before and well come out of this one.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '