Kim Mulkey Named A Semifinalist For Naismith Coach Of The Year

by Staff Reporter

March 8, 202210 Comments

Bryan Lynn-USA TODAY Sports

LSU Women's Basketball coach Kill Mulkey was named a semifinalist for Naismith Coach of the Year on Tuesday. Per LSUSports.net:

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Mulkey is on a list of 10 coaches who are semifinalists for the award. The winner will be announced on March 30.

The improvement for LSU Women’s Basketball going from 9-13 last year to 25-4 this season in Coach Mulkey’s first year as LSU’s head coach is the largest turnaround by a first-year coach in SEC history. As of today, it is a 12 game improvement based on the NCAA formula which takes wins differential and losses differential from one year to the next into account. Depending on how LSU fares in the NCAA Tournament, the official improvement number will change.

The Tigers have surged in the first season of the Coach Mulkey era. With Selection Sunday approaching later this week, it is likely LSU will host first and second round games of the NCAA Tournament inside the PMAC as one of the Top-16 overall seeds in the field of 68 team. The last time LSU hosted NCAA Tournament games was in 2014. The Tigers were a No. 7 seed that year, but to find the last time LSU was one of the Top-16 seeds one would have to go back to 2008 when LSU was the No. 2 seed in the Oklahoma City Regional. Read more.

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mla0100•39 months

We can't believe that she didn't get SEC COY honors!?! Biggest turn-around in SEC HISTORY (& counting) and they give it to Dawn Staley, who won the SEC with like 7 McDonald's All Americans? Staley even made the comment, “I mean, if she (former coach Nikki Fargas) got the support that Kim is getting – you know, the energy in this building – I mean, it’s gonna raise the level of play. If Nikki got a chance to go that,” she added, “maybe she would still be sitting here.” Essentially, down-playing all that Mulkey has done - very questionable.

CanebreakCajun•39 months

16 game turnaround. Top 10 regular season finish. Has done it without any true stars. Is this up for debate?

Chicken•39 months

If she doesn't win, it will be a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

FightinTigersDammit•39 months

It would be a traveshamockery.

Mike da Tigah•39 months

How appropriate it would be to be named the national coach of the year, and be passed on by the SEC after the turnaround year she’s had for coach of the year in the conference.

LSUtoBOOT•39 months

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, she betta.

75503Tiger•39 months

Intolerable, a miscarriage of justice, an abomination

Clockwatcher68•39 months

It would be Outrageous, egregious, preposterous!

foj1981•39 months

You tell ‘em Jackie

Hoosyadaddy•39 months

If she does not get it. It will be a travesty, a shame, and a mockery!

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