The LSU Tigers have been 20-0 (5-0 SEC) headed into Friday’s top-five showdown in opposition to No. 2 South Carolina.
A dominating defensive efficiency from the Gamecocks gave LSU its first lack of the season.
After permitting 22 factors within the first quarter, the Gamecocks allowed simply 34 factors over the ultimate three quarters. LSU’s 56 factors have been a season low and their first time scoring fewer than 60 in a loss below head coach Kim Mulkey.
LSU is taking pictures 48.9% from the sphere this season however was held to only 29.9% in Friday’s loss. Flau’Jae Johnson scored 11 factors within the first half and completed with simply 13, nicely under her season common of 20 factors per recreation.
Aneesah Morrow collected her 93rd profession double-double with 15 factors and 16 rebounds. She moved into second all-time in double-doubles in ladies’s faculty basketball historical past.
South Carolina had an off evening from the sphere, taking pictures simply 37.1% and 15.4% from three.
Freshman star Joyce Edwards led the Gamecocks with 14 factors and 4 rebounds. Sania Feagin was the one different Gamecock in double figures with 12 factors.
South Carolina collected 11 blocks.
The Gamecocks appear to be the perfect staff in all of girls’s faculty basketball. The lone loss for South Carolina this season was on the street in opposition to No. 1 UCLA.
If the 2 groups met once more in the present day, it is exhausting to check the Gamecocks shedding to the identical staff twice in a single season.
