Everything was going swimmingly for the LSU women’s basketball team in yesterday’s SEC Tournament semifinal match with Tennessee. That was until the Lady Vols flipped the script, erased a 17-point deficit, and bounced LSU out of the tournament 69-67.
An awful offensive output in the third quarter doomed the Tigers. LSU was outscored 21-11 in the third. Tennessee switched to a zone defense and for whatever reason LSU couldn’t crack the code.
“We came out the gate smoking,” Kim Mulkey said. “So we go against a zone. It’s not like we haven’t seen a zone this year.