South Carolina’s football season didn’t end the way many hoped it would, but the Gamecocks women’s basketball team has more than lived up to expectations this season. Head coach Dawn Staley led the team to the No. 3 spot in the final regular season rankings, and SEC regular season championship and a No. 1 seed in the women’s tournament. Now, she has the Lady Gamecocks in the Final Four, set to take on Notre Dame in Tampa, Fla. on Sunday evening.

There are some prominent current and former football Gamecocks out in full force in Tampa to support the women’s basketball team.

After Saturday’s scrimmage, Steve Spurrier said he was making the trip to watch the team play, hoping he’d be in Florida for a three-day stay culminating with the national title game on Tuesday night.

Former Gamecocks receiver Alshon Jeffery took it up a notch. The Chicago Bears standout rented out the top floor of the Gamecocks’ team hotel, hosting a party to celebrate South Carolina’s first trip to the women’s Final Four.

“That was just something that Coach Staley and I were talking about. We said, ‘Why not throw a little celebration party?’” Jeffery told GoGamecocks.com. 

Jeffery also compared Staley’s work to what Spurrier has done for the football team.

“Who thought Coach Spurrier would get us to the SEC championship? We looked at it as possible, and Coach Staley made it real,” he said in the piece linked above.

Jeffery’s former teammates Bruce Ellington, now a member of the San Francisco 49ers, and Stephon Gilmore, a Buffalo Bill, also helped to organize the party effort, per the GoGamecocks.com report. The women’s hoops team made an appearance at the hotel as well, turning in early on the night before the game.

South Carolina plays fellow No. 1 seed Notre Dame at 6:30 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN.