LSU women's basketball vs. Georgia: Score prediction, scouting report
LSU women's basketball proved plenty of doubters wrong with its win over Tennessee on Monday night.
Kim Mulkey and No. 3 LSU (21-0, 9-0) won the battle of Southeastern Conference unbeatens and have taken the lead in the race for at least the second-best team in the league behind No. 1 South Carolina, the only other undefeated team left in the country at 21-0.
The Lady Vols were a top 20 NET team, the highest the Tigers have faced this season. Outside relinquishing the lead once in the first half, LSU set the pace for the majority of the contest.
Now LSU welcomes a hot Georgia squad into the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Thursday night (7 p.m., SEC Network+). The Bulldogs (15-8, 4-5) have won two straight, including 28-point thumping of a quality Mississippi State team at home Sunday.
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NCAA bracketology: Georgia Last Team In?
Georgia needs a signature win, and getting one against LSU on the road, would move it much higher in the NCAA Tournament pecking order.
In its latest projections, ESPN has Georgia making March Madness as the last team to get in, squarely on the bubble with no margin for error. New coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson and the Bulldogs will be dialed in.
LSU response following big win over Lady Vols
How will LSU come down from the emotional high of its best win of the year over Tennessee in front of the largest crowd inside the PMAC with its new configuration?
That's the big question for the Tigers, who are far more talented than the Bulldogs. Georgia will come in with intensity and LSU must match the energy.
LSU's 1-2 punch of Angel Reese, Alexis Morris
Senior point guard Alexis Morris scored a career-high 31 points to help the Tigers stave off the Lady Vols, and she said the team could get to a championship level with good guard and post play.
Sophomore LSU star Angel Reese has collected 21 straight double-doubles. If the two can continue to complement each other, LSU will be riding high as a showdown with South Carolina looms on Feb. 12.
Score prediction
LSU 88, Georgia 54: Reese, Morris and company are playing their best basketball of the season and the Bulldogs are no where near as talented. LSU routs UGA.
Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers and Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers and Cajuns coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU/UL athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.
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