For the first time in LSU women’s basketball history, the Lady Tigers were involved in a game in which both teams scored 100 points in regulation. Thanks to LSU’s big three they scored more than Oklahoma in a 107-100 win.
Sophomore Mikayla Williams had 37 points and she made seven 3-pointers, including one with 24 seconds left to give LSU a four-point lead.
The seven three pointers are a career-high and she said after the game she was feeling it after she made the first one.
Flau’Jae Johnson had 25 points and Annesah Morrow had 21 points and 12 rebounds, her 20th double-double this season.
LSU led by as many as 24 points with a little over four minutes left, but saw their lead shrink to one point with under a minute left.
Turnovers were the culprit as LSU struggled with the Sooners 1-2-2 press defense. LSU coach Kim Mulkey was trying to find a point guard who could handle the ball and used several different players including Williams. She also said they prepared for the press, but didn’t execute.
It was Williams though that had the hot shooting hand with the three pointer with 24 seconds left and then Johnson scored on a layup 12 seconds later to seal the victory.
It was a feisty game between these two new conference rivals.
There were 53 fouls, each team received a technical foul and LSU’s Sa’Myah Smith and Oklahoma’s Liz Scott were ejected after they got involved in a shoving match.
LSU Coach Kim Mulkey says she’s never seen that kind of response from Smith before.
And Mulkey gave us another viral moment. With LSU was up by 22 points in the third quarter, the Hall of Fame coach was irate about something and smacked a notebook out of the hands of an unexpecting Seimone Augustus, who could only look down on the floor in shock that the notebook was no longer in her hands. A rookie mistake by first-year LSU assistant coach.
With the win, LSU improves to 22-1, 7-1 in the SEC. They will host Mississippi State on Sunday, who is 3-5 in SEC play.
