BATON ROUGE – The LSU women’s basketball team will play to its second exhibition contest and final tune up before the 2014-15 season when Mississippi College visits the Maravich Center for a Sunday matinee. Admission is free courtesy of the Advocate’s Geaux Free program.
Tip time is slated for 1:02 p.m., and the game will be carried online only by SEC Network Plus via http://www.watchespn.com/ and the Watch ESPN app. Garrett Walvoord and Victor Howell will serve as the announcing team.
The LSU Sports Radio Network also will broadcast the game on its flagship station Talk 107.3 FM in Baton Rouge and inside at the Geaux Zone atwww.LSUsports.net/live. Patrick Wright, the voice of the Lady Tigers, will call the action.
Following Sunday’s exhibition contest, LSU with Club South Runners will hold a 5K Banana Relay/Walk. Registration information is available at http://lsul.su/1o3H6aX.
The Lady Tigers picked up a 93-71 exhibition victory over Loyola on Wednesday. Head coach Nikki Caldwell is looking to see improvement on the defensive end in both LSU’s matchup zone and man-to-man sets between the two exhibition games.
“We’ve got new faces here, but we are going to have to continue to work at our matchup (zone) and at our man (defense) …,” Caldwell said. “I think this team could really change it up. I think we could be that team that extends our defense – then comes back and be a delay, disrupt type of defensive team as well.”
On the offensive end, Jenna Deemer exploded for 26 points sparked by a 7-for-10 shooting effort which included five three-pointers. She also was 7-of-8 at the foul line in addition to four rebounds and two steals over her 26 minutes of action.
Deemer was one of four players to reach double figures. Raigyne Moncrief secured an impressive all-around effort with 15 points, eight rebounds, six steals and five assists. DaShawn Harden and Rina Hill chipped in 11 points apiece. Harden also passed out seven assists.
Akilah Bethel, Alliyah Fareo and Anne Pedersen each tallied eight points. Bethel and Fareo combined for 15 rebounds as the Lady Tigers racked up a 50-34 rebounding advantage against Loyola.
LSU connected on 33-of-67 from the floor and made of its final 28 field goals over the final 16 minutes of the game where the Lady Tigers scored 49 of the game’s final 76 points.
Season tickets are on sale for $75 online at http://www.LSUtix.net/. The LSU Athletics Ticket Office can be reached at (800) 960-8587 or (225) 578-2184 and is located on the first floor of the Moran Family Center for Athletics Administration Building. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
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