The trail to a repeat for LSU girls’s basketball begins now.
No. 3 LSU (28-5) opens play within the 2024 NCAA Event in opposition to Rice (19-14) contained in the Pete Maravich Meeting Middle on campus within the Baton Rouge regional Friday (3 p.m., ESPN).
Kim Mulkey and the Tigers look to stack up six wins in a row to seize one other NCAA championship, identical to they did as a No. 3 seed in March Insanity final season.
Star junior ahead Angel Reese, who was named a primary workforce All-American by the US Basketball Writers of America earlier this week, leads LSU into the NCAA Tourney by placing up 19 factors and 13 rebounds per recreation. Fellow star participant sophomore Flau’jae Johnson has been key for the Tigers down the stretch of the season on each ends of the ground, scoring and defending the opposing workforce’s greatest participant most video games.
Rice earned the automated berth into the event subject by profitable the American Athletic Convention final week, defeating East Carolina, 61-41. The Owls have struggled this season, shedding 14 video games this 12 months, however they did flip the swap on the proper time to win the convention event as a No. 10 seed.
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