WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
After going 9-13 a season ago, first-year LSU Head Coach Kim Mulkey has the Tigers on an eight-game win streak, sitting at 9-1.
“I’m feeling pretty good,” said Faustine Aifuwa who had her first double-double of the season Saturday against Bradley.
Pointer has lived up to her hype as a Preseason All-SEC player averaging 16.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.
LSU has grabbed 30.1 defensive rebounds per game, limiting second chance opportunities with the third best mark in the SEC and 28th in the NCAA.
Something will have to give as LSU’s defensive rebounding will have to go up against a Clemson team that grabs 17.2 offensive rebounds per game, the seventh most in the NCAA.
With four players averaging double-figures for the Red Raiders, Texas Tech as a variety of options scoring the ball led by Vivian Gray who averages 17.0 points per game.
“They have one of the good players in the country in Vivian Gray and she used her Covid year to come back,” said Coach Mulkey.