BATON ROUGE, LA. \u2013 The No. 2 seed LSU women\u2019s basketball team defeated No. 15 Jacksonville, 116-58, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday evening inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.<\/p>\n
The Tigers are back in action on Sunday, March 22nd for the NCAA Tournament Second Round to face the Texas Tech-Villanova game winner. The game will tip off inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Game time will be announced after Friday games conclude.<\/p>\n
The Tigers jumped out a 14-2 lead over the Dolphins. ZaKiyah Johnson got the scoring started with a layup followed by a 12-point streak for LSU. LSU led by as much as 31(56-25) at 3:53 in the second quarter. Despite Jacksonville\u2019s rally, they could only cut it to a 28-point deficit going into the break. LSU held the 64-36 advantage over Jacksonville at halftime. The Tigers shot 56.4 percent on 22-of-39 shots. LSU racked 17 points off of turnovers, and dominated the paint scoring 32. The Dolphins shot 45.5 percent on 15-of-33 shots from the field. LSU knocked down four treys while Jacksonville had three. The Tigers outrebounded the Dolphins 26-10.<\/p>\n
LSU pushed its offensive momentum to outscore Jacksonville 52-22 in the second half. The Tigers went on a 10-point surge at the end of the game to further separate and clutch a 58-point victory. LSU shot 21-of-33 (63.6%) while Jacksonville was 9-of-29 (31%). Both teams knocked down two three-pointers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flau\u2019Jae Johnson led the Tigers in scoring with 20 points on 7-of-14 from the field and a trey. Joining Johnson in double figure scoring were Mikaylah Williams (18), Jada Richard (17), ZaKiyah Johnson (16), MiLaysia Fulwiley (13), Grace Knox (11) and Kate Koval (11).<\/p>\n
The Dolphins were led by Carmaya Bowman with 14 points on 7-of-12 shots from the field.<\/p>\n
Check back for the full recap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, LA. \u2013 The No. 2 seed LSU women\u2019s basketball team defeated No. 15 Jacksonville, 116-58, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8941,8942,116,118,117,8943,5734,8940,8939,4657,41883],"class_list":["post-199890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-women-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}