Friday was just the second day of spring, but it had a festive, carefree, “school’s out” sort of feel in various parts of downtown Columbia. On a bright, sunny afternoon, the sounds of the University of South Carolina marching band rang out in the lobby of Columbia’s elegant Marriott hotel on Main Street. High-top tables and barstools across the Vista were filled with customers, many of whom were wearing garnet T-shirts or caps and had frosty mugs of beer at their fingertips. Smiling mothers and daughters and dads and friends stopped for photos outside of Colonial Life Arena, just steps away from a statue of A’ja Wilson.
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