Women’s Basketball Travels To No. 22 Georgia For Thursday Tip
BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU women’s basketball staff will facial area 6 leading 25 teams in its up coming 8 online games, with a journey to Athens, Ga up up coming. The Tigers will engage in No. 22 Ga on Thursday, January 28 at 6 p.m. CT in Stegeman Coliseum.
The game will be broadcast on the SEC Network Plus with Matt Stewart and Mark Slonaker calling the sport. Followers can observe SECN+ on the world wide web at ESPN.com/enjoy or on the ESPN app. A backlink to the video game is accessible on LSUsports.internet.
The online games will also be broadcast on the LSU Sports activities Radio Network and regionally in Baton Rouge on 107.3 FM. Voice of the Girl Tigers Patrick Wright, in his 31st season, will be on the connect with from the LSU Radio Studio. A hyperlinks to dwell stats is out there at LSUsports.net.
LSU Preview
LSU is 6-7 on the time and is 4-3 subsequent Sunday’s reduction to No. 4 South Carolina, 69-65. Senior Khayla Pointer led the Tigers with 18 factors, though sophomore Tiara Youthful came off the bench for 16 factors. 6 gamers grabbed at the very least 4 rebounds in the recreation as Youthful experienced the most with six.
Pointer potential customers LSU with 16.2 details, 4.5 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 2.4 steals per video game, when her factors normal jumps to 19.9 in SEC action. Aifuwa sales opportunities the squad with 8.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocked shots for every match. She is also the next primary scorer on the team with 11.2 details for every activity and 11.9 in SEC engage in. In meeting participate in Young is averaging 14.1 points per recreation and shooting 52.5 % from the area.
Aifuwa is upcoming up on the 1,000 vocation factors observe listing with 896 points, though Pointer climbs the 1,000 issue profession checklist to No. 27 with 1,145 details. Aifuwa requires eight blocks to join Julie Gross (178 1978-80) for second position on the LSU job blocks list and now sits 16th on the profession rebounds list (674), needing 53 boards to take above Raigyne Louis’ place at No. 15. Pointer moved into the Top 10 on the LSU occupation helps checklist just lately, sitting down in eighth location with 399. With just one additional assist she will develop into the eighth LSU player to dish out 400 vocation helps.
The Opponent – Georgia
Ga is rated No. 22 in the Related Press poll and No. 21 in the Coaches poll with an general report of 13-2. The Bulldogs are 5-2 in SEC perform. Two starters are averaging double figure scoring – Jenna Staiti (14.7 ppg) and Gabby Connally (11.1 ppg). Staiti is also the team’s major rebounder with 7.9 boards for every activity.
This will be the 49th conference amongst LSU and Georgia. The Bulldogs lead the collection, 27-21, with a 15-6 guide in Athens. Georgia has received 4 of the final five video games in the series.
Year and Solitary Ticket Profits Facts
For the 2020-21 time, seating for LSU women’s basketball online games will be general admission in the PMAC. Seating has been reconfigured to guidance bodily-distanced seating. Obtainable seats will be spaced out in blocks of 2, 3 and 4 seats in get optimize attendance options. Admirers will be permitted to sit in any seat that is marked as readily available. Sections 112 and 115 are reserved for participant guests.
Solitary game ticket prices are $7.00 for grownups and $5.00 for youth ages 3-12. To buy tickets for any of LSU’s final four women’s basketball property game titles, go to LSUtix.internet.
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