BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU women’s basketball team will host its second Top-10 opponent in 11 days on Sunday when South Carolina’s No. 4 Gamecocks come to Baton Rouge. The game time on January 24 is scheduled for midday CT at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
The Tigers are 6-6 overall and 4-2 in the SEC game, while South Carolina is 11-1 overall and 6-0 this season.
The game will be broadcast on the SEC Network with Paul Sunderland and Andraya Carter making the call. Fans can watch SECN at their local cable and satellite providers, on the Internet at ESPN.com/watch or on the ESPN app. A link to the game is available at LSUsports.net.
The games will also be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network and locally in Baton Rouge on 107.3 FM. The Voice of Mrs. Tigers Patrick Wright, in his 31st season, will be available to LSU Radio Studio. Links to live statistics are available at LSUsports.net.
LSU preview
LSU is 6-6 in the season and 4-2 after Monday night’s 66-64 victory in Missouri. Senior Khayla Pointer led all scorers with 22 points, while the second year Tiara Young left the bench by 16 points. Redshirt senior Faustine Aifuwa scored 12 points and eight rebounds, the team leader.
Pointer leads LSU with 16.1 points, 4.6 assists and 2.5 steals per game, while his average points jump to 20.2 in SEC action. Aifuwa leads the team with 8.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. She is also the team’s second highest scorer with 11.6 points per game and 12.7 in the SEC. In conference games, Young averages 13.8 points per game and 52.2% field shots.
Aifuwa is next in the list of 1,000 points in his career, with 889 points, while Pointer moves up the list of 1,000 points to 27th position, with 1,127 points. Aifuwa needs nine blocks to join Julie Gross (178; 1978-80) for second place on the LSU career block list and currently has 16º on the career rebound list (669), needing 58 boards to take Raigyne Louis’s place at No. 15. Pointer moved to the Top 10 on LSU’s career assist list recently, coming in eighth with 396. With four more assists will become the eighth LSU player to distribute 400 career assists.
The Opponent – South Carolina
South Carolina is ranked 4th in the Associated Press survey and 3rd in the Coaches survey, with an overall record of 11-1. Gamecocks are the only team undefeated in the SEC game with 6-0. Four beginners average two-digit scores – Zia Cooke (15.9 ppg), Aliyah Boston (14.4 ppg), Destanni Henderson (12.3 ppg) and Victaria Saxton (10.6 ppg), while Boston averages 11.1 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game. Henderson receives an average of 5.8 assists per game.
This will be the 37º meeting between LSU and South Carolina. LSU leads the series, 22-14, with 12-5 in Baton Rouge. Gamecocks have won the last 10 games in the series.
Season sales and single ticket information
For the 2020-21 season, seats for LSU women’s basketball games will be general admission to the PMAC. The seats have been reconfigured to support physically distant seats. The available seats will be spaced in blocks of 2, 3 and 4 seats to maximize service opportunities. Fans will be able to sit anywhere marked available. Sections 112 and 115 are reserved for invited players.
Ticket prices for a game are $ 7.00 for adults and $ 5.00 for children aged 3 to 12. To order tickets to LSU’s women’s home basketball games, go to LSUtix.net.
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