The second-seeded Bruins are preparing for Kim Mulkey’s third-seeded defending national champions, who bring intensity and personality into Saturday’s clash in Albany, N.Y.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey talks with star forward Angel Reese during their victory over Ole Miss in the semifinals of the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament on March 9, 2024, in Greenville, South Carolina. LOS ANGELES — The second-seeded UCLA women’s basketball team will face a team with a powerful offense and a big personality on Saturday in its NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game against defending national champion LSU in Albany, New York.
“There’s a lot going on down there in Baton Rouge,” UCLA guard Kiki Rice said. “It’s good for women’s basketball, the attention that they’re bringing. Kim Mulkey’s built a great program. “Each team has a personality and we want to play within our personality,” UCLA coach Cori Close told reporters Wednesday. “Our job is to get ourselves ready to play our best and that may look different from LSU, but we’re not going to let anything they do take us out of the mental focus of us playing at our best the way we like to do it.”G: Soph. Flau’jae Johnson, 5-foot-10, 14.4 ppg, 38.1% 3-point FG, 49.7 FG%, 5.3 rpg, 74 stealsG: Jr. Aneesah Morrow, 6-foot-1, 16.
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