BATON ROUGE, La. – For the fifth-straight season, the LSU ladies’s basketball program is internet hosting the First and Second Rounds in March Madness with this go-around that includes the No. 2 seed Tigers taking over the No. 15 seed Jacksonville Dolphins Friday night time contained in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
The Tigers will face the Dolphins at 5 p.m. CT on ESPN with Tiffany Greene (pxp), Carolyn Peck (analyst) and Alyssa Lang (reporter) on the decision. Fans are inspired to tune into the LSU Sports Radio Network with Patrick Wright and Shaeeta Williams calling the motion.
LSU and Jacksonville are assembly in ladies’s basketball for the second time in sequence historical past. Both groups performed throughout the Coach Kim Mulkey period on Dec. 30, 2023, when the Tigers defeated the Dolphins 110-68 contained in the Maravich Center. Mulkey coached towards Jacksonville’s present head coach, Special Jennings, in her first season with the Dolphins.
LSU is the fifth-overall seed within the NCAA Tournament, occupying the Sacramento 2 Regional. Along with LSU, the opposite three top-four seeds are No. 1 UCLA, No. 3 Duke and No. 4. Minnesota. Mulkey is in search of her a hundred and fiftieth win as a Tiger on Friday night time as LSU welcomes in Texas Tech and Villanova because the No. 7 and No. 10 seeds, respectively.
Mulkey is in her fifth season at LSU and the Tigers have hosted NCAA Tournament video games yearly beneath her management. This marks the primary time LSU has been a No. 2 seed since 2008, which resulted in a fifth-straight Final Four look for the Tigers. It is the fourth time LSU has earned a No. 2 seed within the NCAA Tournament.
Since LSU’s first look within the NCAA Tournament in 1984 (31 complete appearances), the Tigers have amassed a 56-29 all-time file with one nationwide championship (2023), six Final Fours, 11 Elite Eights and 17 Sweet Sixteens. LSU has made three consecutive Elite Eight appearances since its nationwide championship season and probably the most because the Tigers performed in six straight Elite Eights that included 5 straight Final Fours (2003-2008).
Since changing into a coach in 1985 as an assistant with Louisiana Tech, Mulkey has been to the NCAA Tournament each season besides two (02-03: WNIT Finals; 19-20: COVID). As a head coach, Mulkey holds a file of 66-19 within the NCAAT.
Through 32 video games, LSU has averaged 94.5 factors per sport, which leads the nation. That mark would break the SEC file in scoring common set by Georgia in 1986 (32 video games; 2,855 factors, 89.2 common). The Tigers by its 32 contests have scored 3,023 factors.
LSU leads the nation in 3 statistical classes: bench factors per sport (39.2), rebound margin (16.9), and scoring offense (94.5).
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