LSU To Honor Three Players On Senior Day Versus Tennessee – LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. – In the ultimate common season dwelling sport for 3 LSU seniors, the sixth-ranked Tigers will play host to the Tennessee Volunteers Thursday evening on the Pete Maravich Assembly Center to wrap up the house schedule within the 2025-26 common season.

LSU will honor three seniors together with Flau’jae Johnson, Izzy Besselman and Amiya Joyner. Johnson and Besselman have been a part of the LSU program for 4 years whereas Joyner joined the group this season as a switch from East Carolina.

Both Johnson and Besselman introduced dwelling LSU’s first nationwide championship in 2023 and have been members of this system for 120 wins and loads of postseason success as LSU has been in not less than the Elite Eight since their freshman season.

Joyner got here to LSU as one of many nation’s greatest rebounders and has continued to show that talent in Baton Rouge with a team-leading 211 boards. Joyner, often known as “Mymy” has been one of many many personalities on this 12 months’s squad that has shined by way of throughout her time as a Tiger.

LSU and Tennessee will likely be enjoying in ladies’s basketball for the seventy fifth all-time assembly Thursday evening on the Maravich Center. The Tigers and Lady Vols will battle on ESPN with Ryan Ruocco (pxp), Rebecca Lobo (analyst) and Holly Rowe (reporter) on the decision. Fans can tune into the LSU Sports Radio Network with Patrick Wright and Shaeeta Williams calling the motion.

In 74 video games performed, Tennessee leads the collection, 53-21, however LSU has gained the final 6 of 8 together with the final three towards the Lady Vols relationship again to Feb. 13, 2020. LSU is trying to proceed its longest successful streak versus Tennessee because the Tiger program has by no means defeated the Lady Vols 4 video games in a row. When each groups play in Baton Rouge, LSU is 11-16. Under Coach Kim Mulkey, the Tigers are 5-1 towards Tennessee.

Through 28 video games, LSU has averaged 95.5 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 way of their 28 contests have scored 2,673 factors.

Going into the Tennessee sport, junior guard Mikaylah Williams has 1,492 profession factors at LSU. Needing 8 factors to eclipse 1,500 factors in his collegiate profession, Williams would develop into the seventeenth LSU participant to surpass that milestone whereas in Baton Rouge. This season, Williams has continued to show his pure scoring skill with 360 factors (12.9 common). In different statistical classes at LSU, Williams ranks fifteenth in assists (324) and sixth in three-pointers made (160).

After eclipsing 1,900 factors towards No. 4 Texas and turning into the seventh LSU Tiger to eclipse that milestone, Johnson inches nearer to the two,000 level mark. With 1,900 factors, Johnson joined the likes of Joyce Walker (2,906), Seimone Augustus (2,702), Julie Gross (2,488), Cornelia Gayden (2,451), Sylvia Fowles (2,234) and Khayla Pointer (1,934). Johnson is 35 factors away from becoming a member of 5 LSU legends as 2,000 level scorers. Johnson ranks twelfth amongst energetic D1 gamers in factors scored with 1,965.

Junior guard MiLaysia Fulwiley earned her first profession double-double and paced LSU to a 108-55 victory over the Missouri Tigers with 22 factors. With Fulwiley’s 22 factors and second-straight 20-point efficiency, she additionally grabbed 11 rebounds and picked up her first profession double-double in doing so. She additionally tallied 4 assists, two steals, and three blocks. Fulwiley’s offensive outing was spectacular going 7-of-11 from the sphere, 6-of-9 from behind the arc and 2-2 from the charity stripe. The six three-pointers was a profession excessive for the first-year LSU participant.

In addition to Fulwiley’s six treys vs. Missouri, LSU drained six extra on the afternoon for 12 whole, which was the second most in program historical past (13 vs. Missouri on 1/16/2014). LSU’s record-setting day wasn’t over towards Missouri within the Maravich Center because the Tigers introduced down 72 boards, marking probably the most by an LSU group within the NCAA ladies’s basketball championship period (1982-present). The dwelling Tigers outrebounded the guests by 47 (72-25).

LSU’s last two sport stretch in SEC play consists of one highway sport (Mississippi State) and one dwelling sport (Tennessee).

LSU leads the nation in 3 statistical classes: bench factors per sport (39.7), rebound margin (19.1), and scoring offense (95.5).