TEAM OF DESTINY? Column: Where LSU must improve

TRE ALLEN @treday314

Tournament time is when teams are the hungriest and on any given night an upset can happen if the other team isn’t locked in.

The seeding in front of the team begins to disappear and starts to become all about basketball which causes many upsets every year.

That’s why teams need to put away their opponent so they don’t have another chance to come back, and the LSU women’s basketball team is a victim of this.

Comparing the 2023 LSU women’s basketball to past Final Four teams

BY PETER RAUTERKUS @peter_rauterkus

LSU women’s basketball is getting ready to enter the NCAA Tournament, coming off one of its best regular seasons in school history.

LSU tied its program best regular season record this year, but that would feel all for nothing if it’s not followed up by postsea- son success. That was already the case for LSU in the SEC Tournament.

Looking back at LSU’s best tournament finishes, there are similarities to this season.

The last time the Tigers made the Final Four was 2008. That team dominated the SEC during the regular season, finishing

The Tigers have finished their regular season and conference tournament with 28 wins and two losses. One loss came from the No. 1 team in the country and another was a good Tennessee team. But the way LSU went down left a bad taste in fans’ mouths.

LSU was up by 17 at one point but ended up losing 69-67. Comebacks happen, so it’s not entirely shocking but this isn’t the first time that LSU has failed to close see IMPROVE, page 13