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By Patrick Andres The 104-38 demolition No. 1 South Carolina delivered to Morgan State on Wednesday was an event tailor-made to invite a degree of cynicism to diehard and casual fans alike. What is one of modern college basketball’s most powerful programs doing, you may ask, inviting a 3-5 MEAC school to its home gym seemingly to serve as cannon fodder ahead of a better game against Utah this Sunday afternoon? Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley views the situation differently. After South Carolina’s win over the Bears, Staley outlined how she viewed the arrangement as a form of paying it forward. “Th…