{"id":2637,"date":"2023-04-02T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:21:42","slug":"congratulations-to-the-lsu-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the LSU Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The referees might not have been the best, but with the way the game has gone, it probably wouldn&#8217;t have mattered.\u00a0 LSU dominated this game.<\/p>\n<p>I think I heard them say that LSU has scored the most points in women&#8217;s championship game history as they won 102-85.\u00a0 The leading scorer of the game was Jasmine Carson from the bench.\u00a0 She went 5-6 from three point range on her way of scoring 22 points.\u00a0 Just to put into perspective how crazy this was, Carson had scored 11 points in LSU&#8217;s other 5 tournament games!<\/p>\n<p>LSU shot 64.7% from three point range, Alexis Morris scored 21 points going 8-14 from the field (with 15 in the fourth quarter), and Ladazhia Williams scored 20 points going 9-16 from the field.\u00a0 Every time, Iowa would put a run, Morris or Williams would have an answer.<\/p>\n<p>I will mention that Charlie said how trashy LSU&#8217;s Angel Reese was in trash talking Caitlin Clark doing the you can&#8217;t see me sign and then pointing to her finger about hers will have a ring.\u00a0 I told him the truth &#8211; I don&#8217;t support what Reese did, but Caitlin Clark&#8217;s hand gesture towards the South Carolina guard saying that she isn&#8217;t even going to guard her because she can&#8217;t shoot was just as disrespectful.\u00a0 I wish that trash talking wasn&#8217;t part of the game &#8211; why not win the game with class.\u00a0 But I guess if you are going to dish it out, you have to expect people are going to be happy to return it when you lose.<\/p>\n<p>LSU coach Kim Mulkey was already considered one of the best coaches in women&#8217;s college basketball, but what she has done at LSU is impressive.\u00a0 Two years ago, she took over a LSU program that just went 9-13.\u00a0 In her first year, LSU went 26-6 and lost in the 2nd round of the tournament.\u00a0 And this year, the Tigers have gone 34-2 and are the NCAA National Champions.\u00a0 If Wikipedia is correct, Mulkey is 692-112 between Baylor and LSU, and has won 4 national titles &#8211; becoming one of the few coaches who have won titles at multiple schools.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the LSU Tigers on their first ever NCAA women&#8217;s basketball championship!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The referees might not have been the best, but with the way the game has gone, it probably wouldn&#8217;t have mattered.\u00a0 LSU dominated this game. I think I heard them say that LSU has scored the most points in women&#8217;s championship game history as they won 102-85.\u00a0 The leading scorer of the game was Jasmine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}