Basketball fans turn out for Coppin State’s loss to No. 2 South Carolina in Baltimore

Denikwa James had more than the obvious reasons to attend Sunday afternoon’s women’s basketball game between No. 2 South Carolina and Coppin State. When she was Denikwa Shelby and a freshman on the Morgan State team, the Bears trekked to Charlottesville, Virginia, to face Virginia and a superstar point guard named Dawn Staley. The Cavaliers and Staley won easily, 96-52, on Jan. 11, 1990. With Staley now coaching the three-time NCAA champion Gamecocks and bringing them to Baltimore, James was not going to miss a chance to relive that memory from 35 years ago. “When we started playing them, the lights went out. When the lights came back on, they shot the lights out,” said James, who also...