Kim Mulkey, LSU set NCAA report with 7-straight 100-point video games

The LSU Tigers and head coach Kim Mulkey made historical past Friday evening with a 113-53 victory over Marist on the Paradise Jam event. It was the seventh consecutive sport by which the Tigers had scored 100 or extra factors, breaking an NCAA report that stood for 43 years.

In 1982, Louisiana Tech recorded six straight 100-point video games earlier than happening to win the inaugural girls’s basketball championship. That Bulldogs workforce was led by none apart from Mulkey, who was an All-American level guard and has coached the Tigers to a 7-0 begin this season.

The winner of six NCAA nationwide championships as a participant and coach, Mulkey is used to setting requirements. Mulkey received titles as an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech in 1988, as the top coach at Baylor in 2005, 2012 and 2019, and with LSU in 2023.

However, she wasn’t conscious of this particular record until she was informed after the game.

“I didn’t realize it till after someone said something about it to me just now,” Mulkey stated after Friday’s win. “We don’t talk about that; I’ve never discussed that with any of these kids. It’s not something that’s high on our priority list.”

With her workforce at present ranked fifth within the nation, Mulkey is trying to lead LSU to its second-ever nationwide title this season. Despite that includes eight additions, the Tigers have jelled rapidly. They are averaging 112 factors per sport, with seven gamers averaging double figures.

In Friday’s victory, Mulkey introduced in all 11 accessible gamers; each considered one of them scored. LSU has been aided by the return of All-American Flau’jae Johnson for her senior season, averaging 17.1 factors per sport on 53 p.c capturing. Johnson received a nationwide title with Mulkey in 2023.

LSU’s smallest margin of victory up to now this season is 31 factors. Contributing to that could be a lighter nonconference slate than in earlier years. With a dramatically completely different roster, Mulkey stated she took a distinct method to scheduling this yr. Her squad has but to play an influence convention workforce.

“If I had known that with the eight new players that we were going to score the ball the way we do, I might have scheduled differently,” Mulkey said. “But you’re scared to death with eight new players, and only got two returning players who got significant minutes.”

The Tigers look to proceed their record-breaking begin Saturday evening within the Paradise Jam Reef Division championship sport in opposition to Washington State.