{"id":232090,"date":"2026-03-23T04:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:35:14","slug":"lsu-set-for-sweet-16-rematch-with-duke-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232090\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Set for Sweet 16 Rematch with Duke in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LSUWbkbVDuke120525_MilaysiaFulwiley_LSUAthletics.jpg\" alt=\"MiLaysia Fulwiley, LSU\" title=\"LSUWbkbVDuke120525_MilaysiaFulwiley_LSUAthletics\"\/><br \/>\nThe second-seeded LSU women\u2019s basketball team will face third-seeded Duke in a rematch of its 93-77 win in December. (Photo by LSU Athletics)<\/p>\n<p>By ANDRE CHAMPAGNE, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter <\/p>\n<p>LSU\u2019s Sweet 16 opponent is officially set. The second-seeded LSU women\u2019s basketball team will face third-seeded Duke in a rematch of its 93-77 win in December. The game will be played on Friday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California at a time to be announced.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The side many people don\u2019t see of Kim Mulkey. <\/p>\n<p>Very cool moment of her celebrating Sundays win with her family. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LSU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LSU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kxNWTR9EMo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kxNWTR9EMo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andre Champagne (@andrechampagnee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrechampagnee\/status\/2035839198435951035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying Duke, if that\u2019s who we end up playing, it\u2019s hard to beat people twice,\u201d head coach Kim Mulkey said after the Tigers\u2019 101-47 win over seventh-seeded Texas Tech on Sunday. \u201cThey\u2019re better, I\u2019m sure, and I think we\u2019re better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duke (26-8, 16-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) secured a convincing 69-46 win over sixth-seeded Baylor (28-8, 15-3 Big 12 Conference) in Sunday\u2019s Round of 32 game.<\/p>\n<p>In the victory, the Blue Devils held the Bears to just 16-of-53 shooting (30.2 percent). Duke also forced the Bears into 21 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>In LSU\u2019s December win over Duke, the Tigers overcame an early 14-0 deficit before taking control for the remainder of the game. Junior guard MiLaysia Fulwiley provided a spark off the bench, finishing with 16 points on 6-of-13 shooting, along with five rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>A key factor in LSU\u2019s success in that matchup was its dominance on the boards, outrebounding Duke 35-24. Heading into the Sweet 16, LSU once again appears to have a favorable size advantage in the post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flau&#8217;jae was chirping at Kara Lawson and Duke after this 3\ufe0f\u20e3 <\/p>\n<p>She was hyped after her game sealing bucket \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OaUHuL9MZY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OaUHuL9MZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1996794264945090890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Unlike the first matchup, this weekend\u2019s showdown is expected to be much lower scoring. Both teams have found their rhythm defensively in recent games. LSU has allowed just 62.5 points per game since giving up 77 points on 50% shooting to Duke, while Duke has held opponents to 55.7 points per game since allowing LSU to score 93 points on 60% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second-seeded LSU women\u2019s basketball team will face third-seeded Duke in a rematch of its 93-77 win in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[105288,105289,105290,15435,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-232090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-kim-mulkey","tag-lsu-womens-basketball","tag-milaysia-fulwiley","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}