LSUDad Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 LSU's Kim Mulkey named coach of the year By TigerBait Staff March 9, 2022 1.4k Tweet Share (809) BATON ROUGE – In the midst of the greatest single season turnaround d by a first-year head coach in SEC history, Kim Mulkey was named The Athletic’s Coach of the Year on Wednesday by its group of women’s college basketball writers. The improvement for LSU Women’s Basketball going from 9-13 last year to 25-4 this season in Coach Mulkey’s first year as LSU’s head coach is the largest turnaround by a first-year coach in SEC history. As of today, it is a 12 game improvement based on the NCAA formula which takes wins differential and losses differential from one year to the next into account. Depending on how LSU fares in the NCAA Tournament, the official improvement number will change. The Tigers have surged in the first season of the Coach Mulkey era. With Selection Sunday approaching later this week, it is likely LSU will host first and second round games of the NCAA Tournament inside the PMAC as one of the Top-16 overall seeds in the field of 68 team. The last time LSU hosted NCAA Tournament games was in 2014. The Tigers were a No. 7 seed that year, but to find the last time LSU was one of the Top-16 seeds one would have to go back to 2008 when LSU was the No. 2 seed in the Oklahoma City Regional. LSU will host a Selection Sunday watch party on Sunday, inviting fans and media to watch the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on ESPN with the team. Doors to the PMAC will open at 6 p.m. CT with the show schedule to begin at 7. This year also marks the first time since the 2007-08 season that the Tigers won 25 games in the regular season. With six wins over teams ranked in the AP Poll, LSU has surged into the Top-10 this year. This marks the 14th consecutive week LSU has appeared in the AP Poll and the third straight week the Tigers are in the Top-10. The last time LSU entered postseason play ranked inside the Top-10 was 2007-08. Coach Mulkey has brought the most out of her first team at LSU, a group that includes mostly players she inherited with a few additions she brought along as well. Faustine Aifuwa, Jailin Cherry and Khayla Pointer are all graduate players who have played in Baton Rouge for multiple years. They are all on pace to have the best season of their careers and Pointer is on multiple lists as one of the top players in the country, including as a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award. Alexis Morris transferred to LSU from Texas A&M to join forces with Mulkey, who she played for during her freshman season at Baylor. Morris has electrified LSU’s offense and was named to the All-SEC Second Team. Autumn Newby, a transfer from Vanderbilt who was already committed to LSU when Coach Mulkey was hired, has been a critical piece to the team that has brought intensity to LSU on the defensive end and on the boards is preparing to play in her first NCAA Tournament. Hannah Guster has provided productive minutes off the bench after following Coach Mulkey from Baylor to LSU. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted March 10, 2022 Author Share Posted March 10, 2022 LSU’s Kim Mulkey named semifinalist for Naismith Coach of the Year LSU women's basketball head coach Kim Mulkey(Josh Auzenne | WAFB) By WAFB Staff Published: Mar. 8, 2022 at 12:44 PM CST ATLANTA (WAFB) - LSU women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey is a semifinalist for Naismith Coach of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced on Tuesday, March 8. Mulkey led the Tigers to the greatest turnaround by a first-year head coach in SEC history. The team went from 9-13 in the 2020-2021 season to 25-4 in 2021-2022. Mulkey is one of 10 coaches on the semifinalist list. The winner will be announced on March 30. Below is the full list of semifinalists: Dawn Staley - South Carolina Jeff Judkins - BYU Jeff Walz - Louisville Jennie Baranczyk - Oklahoma Kelly Rae Finley - Florida Kim Barnes-Arico - Michigan Kim Mulkey - LSU Nicki Collen - Baylor Tara VanDerveer - Stanford Wes Moore - NC State Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted March 15, 2022 Author Share Posted March 15, 2022 It appears Game Coin has struck an NIL deal with the entire LSU Women's Basketball starting five. #LSU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houtiger Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 If coach Mulkey had not won another coach of the year award, she is still highly decorated. But she deserves more, she clearly did an outstanding job building this team with transfers, and coaching this team to get the most out of them. I don't like her accent, it grates on my ear. I like everything else about her. From her opening address at LSU, you can tell she it supremely self confident. She demonstrates a deep understanding of the game, and credits coaches she played under and coached under with ideas that she has taken and applied to great effect. Inter personally, she must be great, because her players go out and play well for her. She is an effective recruiter, selling LSU, and I am sure selling the opportunity to play for her. LSU hit the ball out of the park on this one. Woody gets a plus one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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