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LSU’s Aneesah Morrow a finalist for the Cheryl Miller Award

Aneesah Morrow has been a massive addition for the Tigers this season.

It’s been a tremendous first season at LSU for DePaul transfer forward [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag], and the junior finds herself in contention for some prestigious hardware.

On Wednesday, Morrow was named a finalist for the Cheryl Miller Award, which is given annually to the top small forward in women’s college basketball. She’s one of five players named to the list of finalists, which will be presented to the selection committee later this month.

Morrow was also named to the First Team All-SEC on Monday and is a finalist for the Naismith Award, given to the top player in the country regardless of position.

Morrow currently ranks seventh in the nation with 18 double-doubles on the year. Her 16.7 points per game rank sixth in the SEC, and her rebounding average of 10 ranks fifth.

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3 Tigers honored in USA TODAY Sports’ postseason SEC women’s basketball accolades

The Tigers were unsurprisingly heavily featured in the postseason superlatives.

USA TODAY Sports released its postseason SEC honors on Wednesday, and it should come as no surprise that LSU features heavily on the list.

The highlight is [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag], who was named SEC Player of the Year. She also won that award from the league itself, and she’s featured on the First Team All-SEC.

Joining her as a First-Teamer is [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag], and the DePaul transfer was also named the SEC Newcomer of the Year after a tremendous first season in Baton Rouge.

Finally, [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag] was named to the Second Team All-SEC after she continued to build on a tremendous true freshman season as a sophomore this year.

USA TODAY didn’t release any freshman honors, but [autotag]Mikaylah Williams[/autotag] was named the Freshman of the Year by the league, while [autotag]Aalyah Del Rosario[/autotag] joined her on the All-Freshman Team.

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LSU’s Angel Reese named SEC Player of the Year

Angel Reese becomes LSU’s third winner of the award and the first since Sylvia Fowles in 2008.

LSU’s [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] has been named the SEC Player of the Year after once again leading the Tigers to a fantastic campaign.

Reese becomes the third LSU player to win the award after [autotag]Seimone Augustus[/autotag] (2005-06) and [autotag]Sylvia Fowles[/autotag] (2008). She was also named to the First Team All-SEC team by the league along with teammate [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag].

She’s joined as a postseason award winner by SEC Freshman of the Year [autotag]Mikaylah Williams[/autotag], making LSU the first SEC team to have players win both awards since South Carolina did so in 2015.

Reese led the SEC in scoring (19.1) and rebounding (13.0), becoming the first player to do so in back-to-back seasons since Vanderbilt’s Wendy Scholtens in 1989-90.

Reese has 20 double-doubles in the season, giving her 54 in her two-year LSU career. Though she’s eligible for the WNBA draft, the fourth-year junior has the opportunity to return to Baton Rouge for one more season if she chooses.

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Instant Analysis: LSU women’s basketball beats Kentucky on Senior Day

The Tigers ended the regular season on a high note.

In the final game of the regular season, the LSU women’s basketball team earned a 77-56 Senior Day win over Kentucky to finish the regular season 26-4 and 13-3 in SEC play.

Neither team shot particularly well in the first quarter (both were under 30%) but the Tigers took advantage of some serious sloppiness from the Wildcats, who had nine turnovers in the first quarter alone.

Those led to half of LSU’s 20 points as it jumped out to an 11-point lead after the first 10 minutes. The Tigers would stretch their lead as big as 17 in the second quarter, but the frame went to Kentucky overall.

It ended the half on a 13-2 run, while LSU made just 1 of its final 10 shots in the second quarter and had a 3:28 scoring drought. Heading to the locker room, the Tigers led just 33-27.

That momentum wouldn’t carry into the second half, though. LSU came out firing, connecting on 12 of 16 shots as it scored 27 in the frame. It stretched a then game-high 19-point lead and ultimately led by 15 entering the fourth, a lead LSU would go on to expand.

[autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] finished with another double-double (22 points, 14 rebounds), as did [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] (15 points, 10 rebounds). [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag] added 21 points as well.

Now LSU will turn its attention to the SEC Tournament in Greenville this week, where it will be the No. 2 seed.

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Instant Analysis: LSU women’s basketball’s hot streak continues at Georgia

The Tigers have now won seven games in a row and are playing their best ball at the right time.

The LSU women’s basketball team continues to play its best basketball at the right time, and now the Tigers have won seven games in a row after an 80-54 beatdown against the Georgia Bulldogs on Thursday night.

LSU took control early in the game, leading by nine after the first quarter. It outscored the Bulldogs 21-8 in the second quarter, and it led by as much as 32 in the third quarter.

Georgia mounted a rally, outscoring the Tigers by seven in the third quarter to trim the lead to 13. But LSU dominated the fourth quarter by a 20-9 margin, ultimately breezing to a 26-point win.

All five LSU starters scored in double figures, including Hailey Van Lith, who led the team with 18 points. [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] (17 points, 15 rebounds) and [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] (16 points, 10 rebounds) recorded double-doubles.

The Tigers have one remaining game in the regular season and will host Kentucky on Sunday afternoon for Senior Day.

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Kim Mulkey praises defensive effort from LSU freshman Aalyah Del Rosario

Aalyah Del Rosario has played key minutes coming off the bench as a substitute for Angel Reese.

Entering the 2023-24 season, LSU had a number of star-studded additions to the roster.

Most of the talk centered around transfers [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] and [autotag]Hailey Van Lith[/autotag], as well as No. 1 recruit [autotag]Mikaylah Williams[/autotag]. However, one of the more unheralded additions has been another true freshman: [autotag]Aalyah Del Rosario[/autotag].

Mostly relegated to a bench role this season, Del Rosario has been an impactful substitution in her first season. In Monday’s win over Texas A&M, she played 12 minutes, totaling four points and two rebounds.

While that may not blow you away, she was especially impactful on the defensive end, recording three blocks and a steal.

Coach [autotag]Kim Mulkey[/autotag] praised her effort after the game.

“Aalyah, her stats are similar to S’Myah Smith and Nalyssa Smith’s freshman year stats,” Mulkey said. “That’s something a freshman coming off the bench needs to here, because it’s new for a lot of freshmen. You come in and you’re an All-American and you don’t realize how well they’re doing. There was a stretch there where she was blocking shots left and right. We’ll dwell on the three missed free throws, but she was a factor when Angel was subbed for.”

LSU will hope Del Rosario continues to develop and can be relied on for key minutes down the stretch as this team pushes toward the postseason.

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Instant Analysis: LSU women’s basketball keeps rolling with dominant win at Texas A&M

The Tigers held Texas A&M to just 14 first-half points in a road beatdown on Monday night.

The LSU women’s basketball team has been hot as of late, and that streak continued on Monday night as the No. 13 Tigers secured a blowout road win against Texas A&M, 81-58.

The Aggies offense was abysmal in the first half, connecting on just seven of 35 shots. In the first 20 minutes of game time, they managed just 14 points and trailed by 22 at the break.

The offense woke up in the third quarter, as Texas A&M’s 22 points exceeded the total from the first two quarters combined, but it was too little, too late. LSU shot above 50% for the game, and the Aggies never really had a chance to get back in it.

[autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] (25 points, 15 rebounds) and [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] (13 points, 10 rebounds) both had double-doubles, while it was a huge night for [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag], who scored 20.

LSU moves to 22-4 and 9-3 in SEC play. It will return home Thursday night to host Auburn as it seeks revenge for a road loss in January on the plains.

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LSU women’s basketball’s Angel Reese, Aneesah Morrow named to Naismith midseason watchlist

LSU has quite the dynamic duo in the frontcourt.

LSU’s 2023-24 women’s basketball team has seen some ups and downs this season, but when it’s on, it’s as good as anyone in the nation.

Both [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] — the star of last year’s national title team — and DePaul transfer [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] have been major contributing factors. As a dynamic duo in the post, they’ve allowed LSU to be one of the top rebounding teams in the nation.

Both were named to the midseason watchlist for the Naismith Player of the Year Trophy, which is given to the best player nationally in both men’s and women’s college basketball.

Reese leads the SEC and ranks second nationally in rebounding average (12.6) and ranks second in the league in points per game (19.5). Morrow’s 17.3 points per game ranks seventh in the conference, and her 9.9 rebounds rank fourth in the SEC. That’s also good for 28th nationally.

If LSU is ultimately able to repeat as national champions come tournament time, you can be sure this duo will be a primary reason for it.

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Instant Analysis: LSU women’s basketball has no issue taking down Vanderbilt on the road

The Tigers have now won two games in a row and will return home to face Alabama on Sunday.

The No. 13 LSU women’s basketball team kept its momentum going from a big win on Sunday, taking down a potential NCAA Tournament team on the road with an 85-62 win over Vanderbilt in Nashville.

With the win, the Tigers move to 20-4 on the season and 7-3 in SEC play.

LSU started the game with the momentum, jumping out to an early 16-2 lead in the first quarter. The Commodores hit just 2 of 16 shots overall in that frame, and the Tigers held a 22-5 lead after 10 minutes.

They shot below 40% in the second quarter but still managed to expand their lead in large part thanks to some dominant play on the boards. LSU won the first-half rebounding battle 30-19, and that resulted in 19 second chance points — equivalent to the 39-20 advantage it took to the locker room.

Vanderbilt managed to flip the momentum a bit in the third quarter. LSU had some offensive issues, missing eight shots in a row, and the Commodores managed to cut the lead down to just 12. However, the Tigers stretched it back out to an 18-point lead by the end of the quarter.

LSU hit 10 of 16 shots in the final quarter as it closed out the game. [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag] led the team in scoring with 17 points, and [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] (15 points, 16 rebounds) and [autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] (13 points, 10 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles.

The Tigers ultimately won the rebounding battle 57-35, leading to a final second-chance points difference of 32 to Vanderbilt’s 11.

After a rough stretch, LSU is getting back on track and will look to extend its win streak to three when it returns home to face Alabama on Sunday.

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Instant Analysis: LSU women’s basketball smacks Florida to end skid

The Tigers got back on track with a decisive home win over the Gators on Sunday.

It’s been a rough recent stretch for the LSU women’s basketball team, but it took out its frustrations on a struggling Florida Gators team on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers took control early in the game and never looked back as they cruised to a 106-66 win, their largest in SEC play to this point, to move to 19-4 and 6-3 in league play.

LSU had a slow start and fell into an early 6-2 deficit, but that was about the highlight of the game for the Gators. The Tigers responded with a 14-0 run to seize control of the game, and they led 24-11 after the first.

[autotag]Aneesah Morrow[/autotag] came close to reaching a double-double in just the first 10 minutes, scoring seven points with nine rebounds.

LSU widened the gap even further with a 10-0 run early in the second quarter and ultimately took a commanding 54-28 lead by halftime. The snowball effect continued into the third as LSU stretched a 37-point lead heading into the fourth, its largest of the game to that point.

In the fourth, the Tigers ultimately stretched a game-high 45-point lead before taking their foot off the gas. Still, they crossed the 100-point threshold for the seventh time this season and first time in conference play.

[autotag]Hailey Van Lith[/autotag] and [autotag]Mikaylah Williams[/autotag] led the team with 21 points each, and Morrow ultimately finished with an impressive 18-point, 20-rebound line. [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] scored 14, while [autotag]Aalyah Del Rosario[/autotag] and [autotag]Flau’Jae Johnson[/autotag] also scored in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively.

The Tigers dominated on the boards, winning the rebounding battle 59-34. They scored 42 points in the paint and played strong defense, holding Florida to 35.3% shooting with 20 turnovers.

It was the kind of result LSU needed, and coach Kim Mulkey’s team will hope this level of play continues when the team returns to the court on Thursday for what will be a tougher test against Vanderbilt on the road.

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