BATON ROUGE, La. – The fifth-ranked LSU girls’s basketball staff heads right down to New Orleans for the third time this season to tackle Louisiana Tech within the Compete 4 Trigger Basic contained in the New Orleans’ Pelicans Smoothie King Heart enviornment Saturday evening.
LSU, which has gained 10 straight video games, will tackle the Woman Techsters who maintain a 5-3 report going into the competition.
The competition would be the first of two video games in a doubleheader format, which is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. CT on ESPNU with Chuckie Kempf (pxp) and Christy Thomaskutty (analyst) on the decision. The LSU males’s basketball staff will comply with the ladies’s staff at 7:30 p.m. CT to tackle SMU in recreation two of the doubleheader. Followers are inspired to hearken to the LSU Sports activities Radio Community with Patrick Wright and Shaeeta Williams calling the motion. Tiger followers can comply with alongside on 98.1 or 100.7.
In its tenth consecutive victory, LSU collected its ninth 100-point output on the season, which is probably the most by any LSU staff.
The Tigers will play the Woman Techsters for the thirty second time in sequence historical past with LSU main 17-14 all-time. LSU is 4-2 towards La. Tech when taking part in at a impartial web site. The final time each groups performed at a impartial web site was 2006 once they met within the Katrina Aid Basketball Basic in New Orleans.
LSU has performed in a number of NBA arenas all through its historical past, however the contest between LSU and Louisiana Tech on the Smoothie King Heart marks the primary time the Tigers have performed in such a venue since 2013 throughout the common season. LSU final performed at an NBA enviornment when it defeated Iowa within the 2023 Nationwide Championship recreation.
With this matchup on the residence of the Pelicans, it alerts the primary time LSU has performed in an NBA enviornment because the Tigers battled Rutgers and Michigan at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, N.Y. On the time, LSU was competing within the Barclays Heart Invitational, the place the Tigers beat the Scarlet Knights, 69-65, and the Wolverines, 64-62.
For the second time in her head teaching profession, Coach Kim Mulkey will lead a staff towards her alma mater Louisiana Tech. Mulkey, who performed for Louisiana Tech from 1980-84, gained one nationwide championship every on the AIAW degree and the NCAA degree. Mulkey was a member of the ultimate AIAW Championship in 1983 and the primary NCAA Championship in 1984. Throughout her time in Ruston, Louisiana Tech amassed 130 wins in 136 complete video games and along with the nationwide titles, she was a part of two different Remaining Fours and one nationwide runner-up season.
The one different time Mulkey coached towards her alma mater got here in 2009 when Baylor welcomed La. Tech to the Ferrell Heart in Waco and downed the Woman Techsters 77-67.
After ending her taking part in profession at Louisiana Tech, she grew to become an assistant coach underneath Leon Barmore from 1985-2000 when La. Tech held a report of 430-68 in 15 seasons. Mulkey developed underneath teaching legends Sonja Hogg and Barmore, who’s the second winningest coach all-time by successful share (.869). Mulkey was part of one other Woman Techster nationwide title in her assistant coach days.
In her 25-plus seasons as a head coach, Mulkey has accrued 764 wins to 124 losses at Baylor and LSU.
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