BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU women’s basketball team travels to face South Carolina’s No. 1 on Sunday, February 14 at 11 am CT at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina.
Tigers will wear their pink road uniforms while playing their second Play4Kay game in a week. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to honor cancer warriors at Play4Kay’s annual game. Teams across the country, in conjunction with the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, are raising awareness during February of research and patient care needs for all types of cancer that affect women. For more information, visit kayyow.com.
Sunday’s game will be broadcast on the SEC Network with Eric Frede and Christy Thomaskutty calling the game. Fans can watch SEC Network through their local cable or satellite provider, 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 8-9 in the season and is sixth in 6-5 in the SEC after losing in the 73-66 overtime last Thursday against Florida. It was the fourth extension game of the season for the Tigers, breaking a program record for most overtime games in one season. Senior Khayla Pointer led three Tigers in double-digit scoring, with 27 points, the best of the season, followed by the senior redshirt Faustine Aifuwa with 16 and senior Awa Trasi with 10. Aifuwa posted his eighth double-double of the season with 10 rebounds, team leader. Second year Tiara Young he came off the bench with a solid line of statistics of nine points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals and no turn.
Aifuwa received another blocked shot on Thursday in his quest for second place on the list of blocked shots in LSU’s career. She is three blocked shots (175) from moving up to second place on the LSU career list to tie Julie Gross’ 178 (1978-80). Aifuwa is currently at 16º place on the career rebound list with 712, the 16º The LSU player recorded more than 700 rebounds in his career. She needs 48 points to become 35 LSUº 1,000 career career scorer. Aifuwa continues to lead LSU with 8.8 rebounds per game and 24 blocks this season, and is the team’s second highest scorer with 11.9 points per game. She recently took first place in the ranking of teams in field goal shots with 44.9%.
Pointer leads LSU with 16.5 points and 4.1 assists per game to go along with a team of 41 steals. Pointer became the eighth Tiger in the school’s history to distribute 400 career assists on January 28 in Georgia. She currently ranks 25th on the LSU career scoring list, with 1,214 points.
Second year Tiara Young, a strong contender for SEC Sixth Player of the Year honors, is pushing the bench with an average of 9.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per game and is second in shots at 44.2 percent of the field .
The opponent – No. 1 South Carolina
South Carolina is 16-2 overall and 11-0 in the SEC game this season. Gamecocks are currently No. 1 in the Associated Press poll n ° 3 in the coaches poll. Four players have a two-digit average score – Zia Cooke (15.8 points per game), Aliyah Boston (13.7 ppg), Destanni Henderson (11.6 ppg) and Victaria Sexton (10.0 ppg). Boston is the team’s main rebound with 11.5 boards per game and blocked 54 shots. Henderson has 101 assists in the league leadership this season.
This will be the 38º meeting between LSU and South Carolina and the second this season. Gamecocks won their first meeting at Baton Rouge, 69-65, on January 24th. The Tigers lead the series, 22-15 and are 10-7 when games are played in Columbia.
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 any of LSU’s last two home women’s basketball games, go to LSUtix.net. The next home game is scheduled for Sunday, February 21, against No. 18 Arkansas, at 17:00 CT. It will be the LSU Senior Tribute game.
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