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1 month ago | 
nola.com | Rashad Milligan |LSU Tigers
Hailey Van Lith is reunited with former LSU teammate Angel Reese as the newest member of the Chicago Sky. As Reese went to the WNBA in 2024 and Van Lith transferred to TCU last year, the guard said the two have kept in contact. "I really appreciate her," Van Lith said in her post-draft media availability. "We have a very mature relationship. We have a mutual respect relationship where we have respect for each other's game and also the character and people we are off the court.
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1 month ago | 
theadvocate.com | Will Nickel |LSU Tigers
Angel Reese is ready to reunite with her former LSU women's basketball teammate Hailey Van Lith with hopes that their partnership will fare better this time around. Van Lith was selected by the Chicago Sky with the No. 11 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft. She spent her final college season at TCU after transferring from LSU following a disappointing 2023-24 season.
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1 month ago | 
nola.com | Rashad Milligan |LSU Tigers
The WNBA has announced its inaugural rivals week, which will be headlined by Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. WNBA Rivals Week will take place in August as Reese's Chicago Sky and Clark's Indiana Fever tip off the action in prime time. The Fever-Sky game will broadcast on CBS on Aug. 9. This past season marked the third season the NBA held its rivalry week.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Reed Darcey |LSU Tigers
Kim Mulkey didn't have much time to ruminate over a season-ending loss to UCLA in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight. The LSU women's basketball coach told ESPN 104.5 FM on Tuesday that she turned her attention toward next year before she and her team's flight from Spokane, Washington, even landed in Baton Rouge on Sunday. "I'm on the phone, on the plane," Mulkey told hosts T-Bob Hebert and Jacob Hester, "talking to portal kids. We've got our own kids that'll get in the portal.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Reed Darcey |LSU Tigers
SPOKANE, Wash. — In case you needed a visual representation of how close the LSU women’s basketball team was to reaching the Final Four, coach Kim Mulkey provided one in her Sunday evening news conference. Mulkey held her hands up near her microphone, her right just an inch or two higher than her left. “You're this close to another Final Four,” she said. Mulkey has found herself in this position before.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Reed Darcey |LSU Tigers
SPOKANE, Wash. — Aneesah Morrow tallied 30 points 19 rebounds on Friday, dragging the LSU women’s basketball team through a Sweet 16 clash with North Carolina State. How rare is that stat line? Before Friday, only 22 women had ever scored at least 30 points and pulled down at least 15 boards in an NCAA Tournament game. Just six of those players had posted those numbers in the second weekend of the tournament or later, and none of them had done so across the last 15 years.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Scott Rabalais |LSU Tigers
The GOAT paid a visit to the Tigers on Tuesday. Simone Biles, the seven-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, was in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and stopped by the LSU gymnastics facility as the Tigers began preparations for next week’s NCAA regional at Penn State. Biles, who is from Spring, Texas, is friends with LSU freshman gymnast Zoe Miller, who is also from Spring. Both train at a facility there called the World Champions Centre, which is owned by Biles’ parents.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Scott Rabalais |LSU Tigers
Kailin Chio may not have been the first freshman everyone was talking about in the Southeastern Conference before the season started, but that’s exactly how it ended up. The LSU standout earned SEC Freshman of the Year honors as well as a place on the All-SEC team Wednesday. She was joined on the All-SEC squad by teammates Haleigh Bryant, Aleah Finnegan and Konnor McClain.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Rashad Milligan |LSU Tigers
The LSU women's basketball team, including coach Kim Mulkey, are dancing through the 2025 NCAA Tournament. On Monday night, the Tigers ran away with a 101-71 win over Florida State in the Round of 32 to advance to the Sweet 16. Earlier in the day after the team's morning shootaround, Mulkey joined the team in a session of line dancing. The team was dancing to "FLEX" by Cupid when ESPN reporter Jimmy Dykes told the coach to join.
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2 months ago | 
nola.com | Wilson Alexander |LSU Tigers
A Louisiana judge dismissed all the claims in a lawsuit filed by former LSU football coach Les Miles against the school, the NCAA and the National Football Foundation over his ineligibility for the College Football Hall of Fame. District Judge Ronald Johnson issued the ruling Monday inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse. Miles’ attorney, Peter Ginsberg, said they would review the decision and consider their options in regards to an appeal.
