Champs UConn, S. Carolina to visit White Home

• Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterSep 5, 2024, 12:00 PM ET

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Both UConn, the males’s nationwide champ in college basketball, and South Carolina, the ladies’s nationwide champ, will go to the White House on Tuesday to honor last season’s title runs, a White Home official told ESPN exclusively.Erika Trombley, the

Director of Consumer Media at the White House, told ESPN that President Joe Biden will invite both teams on Tuesday”to celebrate their 2023-2024 season and their NCAA national championship triumphes.”The programs have actually been 2 of the most dominant teams in recent college basketball history.South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley protected her third national championship in April with an 87-75 victory over former Wooden Award winner Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the title game. With the win, the 38-0 Gamecocks ended up being the 10th team in Division I history to achieve an unbeaten season.For Dan Hurley, UConn’s guys’s team won its 2nd successive national title, a feat that had

not been accomplished in college basketball because the Florida Gators won back-to-back crowns in 2006 and 2007. On Tuesday, Hurley may be using a familiar garment on the journey to the White House next week. Throughout the NCAA tournament, he

wore the exact same pair of underclothing as part of a superstitious regimen.”Most people think I only utilize the dragon underclothing on game night, in these high-stress scenarios, but I also– I’m very good to the dragon underclothing

, because I’m going to use them to the White House, “Hurley stated during an appearance on the”Today”program after the success.