LSU’s Mikaylah Williams (12) drives to the basket as Murray State’s Ava Learn (14) defends in the first half of the LSU vs Murray State game Friday in LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The LSU women’s basketball team overcame a disastrous second quarter and survived Murray State Friday, pulling out an 74-60 win to avoid a stunning upset loss in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The No.
7 Tigers (4-0) led by 11 after the first quarter. Then Murray State’s offense erupted. The Racers (1-2) outscored LSU 32-12 in the second quarter after they converted 11 of their 18 field goal tries, four of their six 3-pointers and six of their seven free throws.
On defense, they clamped down on the Tigers, who committed seven fouls and three turnovers in the frame while shooting just 4 of 17 from the field and only 1 of 7 from beyond the arc. Murray State took a 46-37 lead into halftime — seemingly in the blink of an eye. Then LSU stole back control of the game in the third quarter, once its offense began to thaw, and retook the lead in the fourth, once its defense strung together a few key stops.
But what went wrong in the second? LSU scored zero points from the paint, from its bench and from either of the two turnovers Murray State committed in the second quarter. Mikaylah Williams, the star sophomore who scored the Tigers’ first nine points of the night, missed all three of her shots from beyond the arc and .