BATON ROUGE — The 13th-ranked LSU women’s basketball team returns from a 10-day hiatus to face Delaware State on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
The LSU-Delaware State game can be heard in Baton Rouge on WTGE 107.3 FM and on the Internet at www.LSUsports.net. The game will also be televised by tape delay on Friday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the Pelican Sports Network (cable channel 11 in Baton Rouge).
The Lady Tigers last saw action on Dec. 18 when they downed Prairie View, 79-32, for their 51st-consecutive home victory over a non-conference opponent. The 32 points allowed to the Lady Panthers is the fourth-lowest in school history.
LSU (7-3) has won five straight games after beginning the year 2-3. This will be just the third game for the Lady Tigers with all 10 players dressed out. It will be the first time all 10 squad members have been healthy as senior April Brown’s knee is healed.
Brown (10.3 ppg, 4.6 rpg), a 5-11 senior, will be back in the starting line up for the first time in four games. She will be joined by 5-11 junior DeTrina White (5.8 ppg, 6.8 rpg) and Roneeka Hodges (11.4 ppg, 6.4 rpg) in the frontcourt. All-American candidate Marie Ferdinand (21.5 ppg, 5.9 rpg), a 5-9 senior, and Angelia Crockett (2.2 ppg, 3.1 apg), a 5-11 senior, make up the backcourt.
Delaware State (3-5) enters the game riding a two-game skid. The Hornets last won on Dec. 6, a 76-62 win over conference-for North Carolina A&T.
The Hornets are led by guard Chavonne Stewart (13.3 ppg, 2.1 apg), a 5-7 senior. Joining her in the starting line up will be 5-8 sophomore Keysha Tiller (6.7 ppg, 3.5 rpg), 5-9 freshman Kimisha Dabney (7.4 ppg, 5.5 rpg), 6-1 freshman Memory Rhone (5.4 ppg, 5.3 rpg) and 5-6 senior Sheena Dixon (6.0 ppg, 1.4 apg).
Saturday’s game marks just the second meeting ever for LSU against a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference school. The last came in 1979 when the Lady Tigers downed Norfolk State, 81-48, in Norfolk, Va.