It’s finally here.
After winning the first national championship in program history in Year 2 under Kim Mulkey, the 2023-24 LSU women’s basketball team is set to take the court at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center for the first time on Thursday night.
The team begins its campaign with the first of two exhibitions, this one coming against East Texas Baptist. The second exhibition will be next Thursday against Loyola (New Orleans).
The East Texas Baptist Tigers are a Division III squad and are coming off a 20-7 finish last season in which the team reached the American Southwest Conference tournament championship game.
This matchup will be the first time LSU fans see transfers Hailey Van Lith and Aneesah Morrow in the purple and gold, as well as No. 1 overall signee Mikaylah Williams.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Thursday night’s game.
How to Watch
Injury Report
LSU is healthy entering the season.
Projected Starting Lineup
Prediction
College basketball matchups can’t get much more lopsided than this. The Tigers are coming off a title and primed to repeat, and things are likely to get ugly against a Division III squad, albeit a pretty solid one. Perhaps the Tigers play a lot of young players in this game and keep things from getting too out of hand, but this one isn’t going to be close at all.
Prediction: LSU 100, East Texas Baptist 35