Women’s Basketball Travels To No. 22 Georgia For Thursday Suggestion

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU women’s basketball team will facial area six major 25 groups in its upcoming 8 video games, with a journey to Athens, Georgia up following. The Tigers will enjoy No. 22 Ga on Thursday, January 28 at 6 p.m. CT in Stegeman Coliseum.

The sport will be broadcast on the SEC Community Furthermore with Matt Stewart and Mark Slonaker calling the recreation. Fans can watch SECN+ on the net at ESPN.com/enjoy or on the ESPN app. A link to the sport is accessible on LSUsports.internet.

The games will also be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network and regionally in Baton Rouge on 107.3 FM. Voice of the Lady Tigers Patrick Wright, in his 31^st time, will be on the simply call from the LSU Radio Studio. A back links to are living stats is offered at LSUsports.internet.

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, although sophomore Tiara Youthful came off the bench for 16 points. Six gamers grabbed at least 4 rebounds in the video game as Young had the most with 6.

Pointer leads LSU with 16.2 factors, 4.5 helps, 3.8 rebounds and 2.4 steals per match, while her points ordinary jumps to 19.9 in SEC motion. Aifuwa potential customers the squad with 8.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocked photographs for each recreation. She is also the next primary scorer on the group with 11.2 details for each recreation and 11.9 in SEC perform. In convention enjoy Young is averaging 14.1 points for every video game and capturing 52.5 percent from the area.

Aifuwa is subsequent up on the 1,000 job factors enjoy checklist with 896 points, whilst Pointer climbs the 1,000 position occupation list to No. 27 with 1,145 points. Aifuwa wants eight blocks to sign up for Julie Gross (178 1978-80) for next position on the LSU job blocks record and at the moment sits 16^th on the vocation rebounds list (674), needing 53 boards to get about Raigyne Louis’ location at No. 15. Pointer moved into the Best 10 on the LSU career assists checklist recently, sitting down in eighth location with 399. With one much more help she will come to be the eighth LSU player to dish out 400 job helps.

The Opponent – Ga

Georgia is rated No. 22 in the Involved Push poll and No. 21 in the Coaches poll with an over-all file of 13-2. The Bulldogs are 5-2 in SEC perform. Two starters are averaging double determine scoring – Jenna Staiti (14.7 ppg) and Gabby Connally (11.1 ppg). Staiti is also the team’s major rebounder with 7.9 boards per match.

This will be the 49^th conference involving LSU and Ga. The Bulldogs direct the sequence, 27-21, with a 15-6 lead in Athens. Ga has received four of the last 5 online games in the sequence.

Season and Solitary Ticket Sales Details

For the 2020-21 year, seating for LSU women’s basketball video games will be normal admission in the PMAC. Seating has been reconfigured to guidance physically-distanced seating. Available seats will be spaced out in blocks of 2, 3 and 4 seats in buy optimize attendance possibilities. Enthusiasts will be authorized to sit in any seat that is marked as obtainable. Sections 112 and 115 are reserved for participant visitors.

Solitary game ticket prices are $7.00 for grownups and $5.00 for youth ages 3-12. To order tickets for any of LSU’s past 4 women’s basketball house online games, go to LSUtix.web.

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