LSU Women’s Basketball team won the 2023 NCAA National Championship game over Iowa, 102-85, on Sunday. The LSU Head Coach Kim Mulkey assembled nine transfers and freshmen in an effort to « Piece It 2gether » in her second season in Baton Rouge. The Tigers set the record for points in a Women’s Final Four game, as the Tigers shot 54.3 percent from the field including 11-of-17 from three-point range. LSU outrebounded Iowa, 37-26. It was the fourth championship in as many title game appearances in Mulkey’s coaching career.
LSU graduate transfer Jasmine Carson made her first seven shots from the field to score 22 points and spark the Tigers before halftime. She led five Tigers in double figures, as LSU lit up the scoreboard while shooting better than 50 percent from the field throughout the contest. Sophomore forward Angel Reese, a Maryland transfer and the key piece to the Tigers historic season, scored 15 points with 10 rebounds in 29 minutes against the Hawkeyes. Iowa junior guard Caitlin Clark, the 2023 Naismith National Player of the Year, led the Hawkeyes with 30 points, becoming the NCAA Tournament single-tournament leading scorer with 191 points.
LSU (34-2), the No. 3 seed in the Greenville 2 Region after finishing the regular season second in the SEC, erased a nine-point fourth-quarter deficit with a 22-3 run in the national semifinal to defeat No. 1-seed Virginia Tech, 79-72. On the road to the Women’s Final Four, the Tigers defeated No. 14 Hawai’i and No. 6 Michigan at the Maravich Center, before knocking off No. 2-seeded Utah and No. 9-seeded Miami to advance to Dallas. Iowa (31-7), the No. 2 seed in the Seattle 4 Region, beat the tournament’s overall No. 1 seed and previously undefeated South Carolina in Friday’s Final Four nightcap, 77-73, to advance to the first women’s basketball national championship game in program history.
LSU Women’s Basketball team won the 2023 NCAA National Championship game over Iowa, 102-85, on Sunday. The Tigers set the record for points in a Women’s Final Four game, as the Tigers shot 54.3 percent from the field including 11-of-17 from three-point range. LSU outrebounded Iowa, 37-26. It was the fourth championship in as many title game appearances in Mulkey’s coaching career. LSU graduate transfer Jasmine Carson made her first seven shots from the field to score 22 points and spark the Tigers before halftime.
LSU’s Road to Victory
LSU (34-2), the No. 3 seed in the Greenville 2 Region after finishing the regular season second in the SEC, erased a nine-point fourth-quarter deficit with a 22-3 run in the national semifinal to defeat No. 1-seed Virginia Tech, 79-72. On the road to the Women’s Final Four, the Tigers defeated No. 14 Hawai’i and No. 6 Michigan at the Maravich Center, before knocking off No. 2-seeded Utah and No. 9-seeded Miami to advance to Dallas. Iowa (31-7), the No. 2 seed in the Seattle 4 Region, beat the tournament’s overall No. 1 seed and previously undefeated South Carolina in Friday’s Final Four nightcap, 77-73, to advance to the first women’s basketball national championship game in program history.
LSU’s Key Players
LSU graduate transfer Jasmine Carson made her first seven shots from the field to score 22 points and spark the Tigers before halftime. She led five Tigers in double figures, as LSU lit up the scoreboard while shooting better than 50 percent from the field throughout the contest. Sophomore forward Angel Reese, a Maryland transfer and the key piece to the Tigers historic season, scored 15 points with 10 rebounds in 29 minutes against the Hawkeyes. Iowa junior guard Caitlin Clark, the 2023 Naismith National Player of the Year, led the Hawkeyes with 30 points, becoming the NCAA Tournament single-tournament leading scorer with 191 points.
Keywords: LSU Women’s Basketball, NCAA National Championship, Kim Mulkey, Jasmine Carson, Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, NCAA Tournament.
