The reward for winning 21 games, the most ever by a College of Charleston women's basketball team in NCAA Division I, is a 9 a.m. rematch today with Davidson at McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the Southern Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Charleston's record is a glitzy 21-7 and 14-6 in the SoCon, but the Cougars are the No. 4 seed. Davidson, which won only one non-conference game, is 12-7, 11-9 and the No. 5 seed. The Cougars won both regular-season meetings, but they were nail-biters. Charleston won at Davidson, 74-71, snapping a four-game Davidson winning streak and beginning a six-game losing streak for the Wildcats. The Cougars escaped with a 54-53 win at home in their final regular season game.

"It's tournament time, you've got to play a good team," said Cougars coach Nancy Wilson, whose squad is riding a four-game winning streak. "We've played two very competitive games with them. To do well in the tournament, you have to play good competition.

"I don't think it's good or bad that we're playing them again. It's just the luck of the draw. They've played another game in between, and we've had such a long break. I don't even know if we particularly remember it as being our last game. It's just the next step in what you want to do to have a successful tournament."

A win would put Charleston in a semifinal matchup against regular season champion Chattanooga, which improved to 22-8 overall, with an 86-53 win Friday over Appalachian State. But that's the route to the Cougars' dream, a tournament win and NCAA bid. Wilson said she didn't know what the team's postseason hopes were outside of winning the tournament.

""Our main hope and strongest desire is to go into the tournament and win that," she said. "That settles everything."

--Charleston's Tonia Gerty (11.6 ppg) and Jade Hughes made the SoCon Coaches All-Conference Team. Chattanooga's Shanara Hollinquest was the player of the year and Samford's Mike Morris was the coach of the year.

--Hughes, a junior, was named the second-ever recipient of the league's Ann Lashley Inspiration Award, which goes to a player or coach who has shown outstanding courage or service. Hughes was struck by an automobile last year while crossing the street and suffered a head injury, forcing her to miss the '07-08 season.