BATON ROUGE — LSU’s 13th-ranked women’s basketball team will attempt to run its winning streak to 10 straight on Tuesday as the Lady Tigers play host to Jackson State at 7 p.m. at the Maravich Assembly Center.
LSU coach Sue Gunter enters the contest with 597 career victories leaving her just three wins shy of becoming only the fourth coach in women’s basketball history to win 600 games.
College Sports-Southeast will televise the game on a tape delay basis. The contest will be broadcast by the LSU Sports Network and can be heard in the Baton Rouge area on 107.3 FM. The game can also be heard on the internet at www.LSUsports.net.
LSU enters the game with a 9-1 overall mark as the Lady Tigers have run off nine consecutive wins after opening the season with a loss at Texas Tech. The Lady Tigers enter the contest with a pair of home court winning streaks. Overall, LSU has won 15 straight at the PMAC and the Lady Tigers have also won a school-record 42 straight non-conference home games, a streak which dates back to the 1994-95 season.
Jackson State enters the game with a 3-5 overall mark as the Lady Tigers have lost four of their last five games.
“We better be ready to play,” Gunter said. “We have been very sluggish in our first two practices since coming back from the break and I know Jackson State is coming in here ready to play with a nothing to lose attitude.
“This is another opportunity for us to get better as a team. We just have a week left before we really get into the thick of the conference schedule so we must continue to get better and it starts with a 40 minute effort against Jackson State.”
The Lady Tigers are coming off a lackluster performance in their 63-52 win over Wake Forest last Wednesday. In that game, LSU led 59-34 with just under nine minutes left in the contest before the Lady Tigers went nearly eight minutes without scoring a point.
The Lady Tigers continue to be led by the play of junior guard Marie Ferdinand and senior guard/forward Katrina Hibbert. Ferdinand leads LSU and ranks third in the Southeastern Conference with 18.1 points a contest. Ferdinand also leads the SEC in steals with 4.0 a game and she ranks third in the loop with 6.5 assists a contest.
Hibbert is averaging 13.1 points a game and her 8.0 steals a contest lead the SEC and rank third nationally. Hibbert is also averaging 3.9 steals a game, second in the SEC.
Angelia Crockett, a 5-11 junior, continues to run the point guard spot for LSU. Crockett is 5-0 as LSU’s starting point guard and she has dished out 18 assists in the Lady Tigers’ last three games. Rounding out the LSU lineup will be 5-11 junior forward April Brown (12.1 points, 4.5 rebounds) and 5-11 sophomore center DeTrina White (11.2, 8.5).
Jackson State is paced by Alisha Richard’s 14.1 points a contest.