The LSU ladies’s basketball group might be the protecting nationwide champsled by a coach in Kim Mulkey with 4 profession titles under her belt.
They definitely do not desire you to understand that. As far as the No. 3-seeded Tigers are worried, they’re the underdog heading into a Sweet 16 match versus UCLA on Saturday– which holds true from a seeding viewpoint, though LSU is, in reality, the preferred.
Regardless, Mulkey’s group is accepting a Cinderella mindset, which was restated on Friday night when the group published a buzz video told by 2023 Heisman-winning quarterback and most likely top-five draft choice Jayden Daniels.
That group LSU vs. everybody else
That Kid Jayden @JayD__5 pic.twitter.com/j0pdHB4STt
— LSU Women’s Basketball (@LSUwbkb) March 29, 2024
The video and caption wasn’t the very first effort LSU has actually made to persuade us it’s an underdog.
On Friday, Mulkey stated the Bruins were “expected to win” Saturday’s Sweet 16 match, per Yahoo Sports’ Cassandra Negley
“Look, [UCLA is] expected to win the video game,” Mulkey stated at MVP Arena on Friday ahead of a Sweet 16 conference in the Albany 2 local. “They’re the 2 seed, we’re the 3 seed. We’re not going to go away. We’re going to battle hard.”
Those beliefs were echoed by point player Hailey Van Lith.
“We’re picking to concentrate on how a great deal of individuals believe they can knock us off since that provides us the underdog edge, and we carry out much better with the underdog edge,” Van Lith informed press reporters in the locker space after their very first practice in Albany. “That’s simply the makeup of our group which’s how we react.”
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“We’re playing the mind video game with ourselves a bit that everyone desires us to be knocked off,” Van Lith stated. “Everybody believes they can beat us. Everyone does not believe we’re going to win. That’s what we’re picking to put our energy into due to the fact that eventually that’s going to encourage us to get the finest outcome.”
If Mulkey’s group– which is preferred by 2.5 points since Friday night per BetMGM– can manage the “upset,” it might establish a championship game rematch in the Elite Eight versus Iowa and super star Caitlin Clark.
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