Kim Mulkey Named A Semifinalist For Naismith Coach Of The Year

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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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