LSU looked the part of a preseason No. 1 team in its two exhibitions.
The Tigers completed their preseason slate on Wednesday night in a scrimmage against NAIA opponent Loyola (New Orleans), and it was an even more dominant win than the first scrimmage.
LSU won 121-36, starting the game on a 15-0 run and ultimately taking a 63-16 lead to the locker room.
After debuting a starting lineup of all newcomers in the first exhibition, we saw what will likely be the starting five in the regular season: [autotag]Hailey Van Lith[/autotag], [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag], Mikaylah Williams, Aneesah Morrow and Angel Reese.
Williams, a highly touted true freshman, led the team in scoring with 20 points followed by another true freshman in [autotag]Aalyah Del Rosario[/autotag] with 16. They were joined in double figures scoring by Johnson (15 points), Van Lith (13), [autotag]Last-Tear Poa[/autotag] (12) Morrow (11) and Reese (10).
Reese also added nine rebounds, coming one short of a double-double, as did Rosario. Morrow did manage a double-double as she had 12 rebounds.
LSU shot 60.5% as a team while allowing the Wolf Pack to shoot just 20.9 percent. Turnovers, of which LSU had 19, were a bit of a problem. However, it did force 20 of its own.
The Tigers divvied the minutes up quite a bit in this game as coach [autotag]Kim Mulkey[/autotag] looks to finalize the rotation. We’ll see the result of that when the Tigers begin their season Monday night against Colorado in Las Vegas.
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