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LSU Tigers women's basketball
2021–22 LSU Lady Tigers basketball squad
University	Louisiana Country University
Head bus	Kim Mulkey (1st season)
Briefing	SEC
Location	Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Arena	Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Capacity: 13,472)
Nickname	Lady Tigers
Colors	Purple and gold[one]
Uniforms
Home Away Alternate
NCAA Tournament Last Four
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
1986, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
1984, 1986, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014
NCAA Tournament Appearances
1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022
AIAW Tournament Runner-up
1977
AIAW Tournament Final 4
1977
AIAW Tournament Appearances
1977
Conference tournament champions
1991, 2003
Conference regular flavor champions
2005, 2006, 2008

The LSU Tigers women'south basketball team represents Louisiana Country University in NCAA Division I women'due south higher basketball. The team'southward head coach is Kim Mulkey, the former head double-decker at Baylor University, who was hired on Apr 25, 2021 to replace Nikki Fargas, who had been head passenger vehicle since the 2011-2012 flavor. The team plays its domicile games in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

History [edit]

Through the 2018–2019 flavour, LSU has made 27 AIAW/NCAA tournament appearances including 14 Sweet Sixteens, eight Elite Eights, and five Final Fours. The Lady Tigers have won the SEC regular flavor championship iii times and the SEC Tournament championship twice.

Coleman-Swanner era [edit]

The LSU women's basketball team started play in 1975 as the "Ben-Gals," with coach Jinks Coleman. In merely their 2nd season of play, the team made it to the AIAW national championship game before losing to acme-ranked Delta State, 68–55. Coleman stepped down in the middle of the 1978–1979 season and was replaced by Barbara Swanner, who in turn led the team for 3 and a half seasons. The 1981-1982 flavour saw the NCAA get the governing body of collegiate women'south basketball game. LSU did not play in the first NCAA tournament.

Sue Gunter era [edit]

Time to come Hall of Fame motorcoach Sue Gunter was hired to supervene upon Swanner. Gunter would pb the Lady Tigers for the next 22 seasons. Gunter led the Lady Tigers to fourteen NCAA tournament appearances. Although she only won three regular season titles, for most of her tenure the SEC was dominated past national powers Tennessee, Auburn and Ole Miss. Gunter took a medical go out of absence in the middle of the 2003–04 flavour. Her summit assistant, Pokey Chatman, who had played for Gunter in the late 1980s and early 1990s and served every bit an banana motorbus since the cease of her playing days, took over as acting motorcoach and led the Tigers to their first Last 4. Notwithstanding, Gunter was still officially caput charabanc, and LSU credits the entire season to her. Gunter retired afterward the season, and Chatman was named her permanent successor.

Pokey Chatman era [edit]

Pokey Chatman led the team to 2 more than sequent Last Four appearances and was highly regarded as autobus. However, during the 2006–2007 season, just prior to the NCAA Tournament, Chatman resigned subsequently allegations of improper conduct with a onetime thespian surfaced. She was replaced on an interim basis past longtime banana Bob Starkey, who coached the squad during the 2007 NCAA Tournament, leading them to a quaternary consecutive Final Four.

Van Chancellor era [edit]

Van Chancellor, the former head coach for Ole Miss and the Houston Comets, was hired at the end of the 2006–2007 season as a permanent replacement. In his commencement year as omnibus, Chancellor led the Lady Tigers to the SEC regular flavor championship. The Lady Tigers were runner-up in the 2008 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament and made the NCAA Final Four for a fifth consecutive year. LSU joined UConn as the simply two schools e'er to attain five consecutive Concluding Fours.

Nikki Fargas era [edit]

On April two, 2011, LSU hired Nikki Caldwell, later Nikki Fargas, to replace Chancellor as head passenger vehicle of the Lady Tigers. Fargas played as Nikki Caldwell at the University of Tennessee under Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt. During her tenure as head omnibus at LSU, Fargas has led the Lady Tigers to five NCAA Division I Women's Basketball game Tournament appearances in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Fargas resigned as head bus on April 24, 2021 to become president of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces.

Kim Mulkey era [edit]

On Apr 25, 2021, LSU announced the signing of Kim Mulkey to replace Fargas every bit head motorcoach. Mulkey played at Louisiana Tech, where she also went on to be an assistant and acquaintance caput coach for 15 years. Prior to accepting the offering to bus LSU, she was the head coach for Baylor Academy, where she won 3 national championships in 21 seasons.^[2]

On December 2, 2021, Mulkey led the team to their outset win versus a ranked team by defeating #14 Iowa State 69-60 in the Maravich Centre giving the squad a 7-ane tape for the twelvemonth.

Championships [edit]

Final Fours [edit]

LSU has played in v Final Fours in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball game Championship tournament.

Twelvemonth	Coach	Tape
2003–04	Sue Gunter	27–7
2004–05	Pokey Chatman	33–3
2005–06	Pokey Chatman	31–4
2006–07	Pokey Chatman	xxx–8
2007–08	Van Chancellor	31–6
Total Final Fours: 5

Conference championships [edit]

LSU has won 3 regular-season conference championships and ii briefing tournament championships in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

Year	Conference	Coach	Overall Tape	Conference Tape
1990–91	SEC Tournament	Sue Gunter	24–7	five–four
2002–03	SEC Tournament	Sue Gunter	30–four	11–3
2004–05	SEC	Pokey Chatman	33–3	14–0
2005–06	SEC	Pokey Chatman	31–4	xiii–i
2007–08	SEC	Van Chancellor	31–half-dozen	14–0
Total briefing championships: five

Twelvemonth past year results [edit]

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Continuing	Postseason	Coaches' poll	AP poll
Jinks Coleman (Independent) (1975–1979)
1975–76	Jinks Coleman	17–14	–		AIAW Regional
1976–77	Jinks Coleman	29–8	–		AIAW Second Place		xi
1977–78	Jinks Coleman	37–3	–		AIAW Regional		x
1978–79	Jinks Coleman	eight–7	–
Jinks Coleman:		91–32	–
Barbara Swanner (Independent, SEC) (1979–1983)
1979	Barbara Swanner	v–5	–		AIAW Regional
1979–80	Barbara Swanner	17–17	–		AIAW Regional
1980–81	Barbara Swanner	17–15	–		AIAW Regional
1981–82	Barbara Swanner	xviii–thirteen	–
Barbara Swanner:		57–l	–
Sue Gunter (SEC) (1982–2004)
1982–83	Sue Gunter	20–seven	6–2	T-1st (SEC West)			20
1983–84	Sue Gunter	23–7	v–3	T-2nd (SEC West)	NCAA Sweet 16		viii
1984–85	Sue Gunter	20–9	4–iv	3rd (SEC West)	NWIT Champions
1985–86	Sue Gunter	27–6	6–3	T-2d	NCAA Elite Viii	8	nine
1986–87	Sue Gunter	xx–8	6–3	T-fourth	NCAA 2d Round (Goodbye)	19	xiv
1987–88	Sue Gunter	18–11	six–3	3rd	NCAA First Round
1988–89	Sue Gunter	nineteen–xi	five–iv	T-4th	NCAA Sweet Sixteen	14
1989–ninety	Sue Gunter	21–nine	4–5	T-6th	NCAA Outset Circular		23
1990–91	Sue Gunter	24–7	5–four	4th#	NCAA 2d Round (Bye)	xviii	8
1991–92	Sue Gunter	16–xiii	4–seven	T-7th
1992–93	Sue Gunter	9–18	0–11	twelfth
1993–94	Sue Gunter	11–sixteen	two–9	T-10th
1994–95	Sue Gunter	seven–20	1–10	T-10th
1995–96	Sue Gunter	21–11	four–7	T-8th	NWIT Third Place
1996–97	Sue Gunter	25–5	9–3	T-tertiary	NCAA Sweet Sixteen	12	ix
1997–98	Sue Gunter	nineteen–thirteen	7–7	T-6th	WNIT Semifinals
1998–99	Sue Gunter	22–8	10–4	2d	NCAA Sweetness 16	21	21
1999–2000	Sue Gunter	25–seven	11–3	3rd	NCAA Aristocracy Viii	eight	xv
2000–01	Sue Gunter	20–xi	viii–half dozen	T-4th	NCAA 2nd Round	20	18
2001–02	Sue Gunter	18–12	8–vi	T-4th	NCAA 2nd Round	22	22
2002–03	Sue Gunter	30–4	11–3	2d#	NCAA Elite Eight	5	3
2003–04	Sue Gunter	27–seven	10–four	2d	NCAA Final Four	3	nineteen
Sue Gunter:		442–220	132–111
Pokey Chatman (SEC) (2004–2007)
2004–05	Pokey Chatman	33–iii	14–0	1st	NCAA Final Four	3	ii
2005–06	Pokey Chatman	31–4	thirteen–one	1st	NCAA Final Four	4	five
2006–07	Pokey Chatman	30–8	ten–4	T-tertiary	NCAA Final Four	4	12
Pokey Chatman:		94–fifteen	37–v
Van Chancellor (SEC) (2008–2012)
2007–08	Van Chancellor	31–6	14–0	1st	NCAA Final Four	4	vi
2008–09	Van Chancellor	19–11	ten–4	T-2nd	NCAA Second Round
2009–10	Van Chancellor	21–10	9–7	T-3rd	NCAA Second Round	25	21
2010–11	Van Chancellor	19–13	8–viii	T-5th
Van Chancellor:		90–40	41–19
Nikki Fargas (SEC) (2011–2021)
2011–12	Nikki Caldwell	23–11	10–6	T-4th	NCAA 2d Circular
2012–xiii	Nikki Caldwell	22–12	10–6	sixth	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2013–14	Nikki Fargas	21–13	7–9	T-6th	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2014–15	Nikki Fargas	17–fourteen	10–6	T-4th	NCAA Kickoff Round
2015–16	Nikki Fargas	10–21	iii–13	13th
2016–17	Nikki Fargas	20–12	viii–8	7th	NCAA First Round
2017–18	Nikki Fargas	18–7	10–4	3rd		24	30
2018–19	Nikki Fargas	16–13	seven–9	6th	Turned down NIT Bid
2019–20	Nikki Fargas	twenty–x	ix-7	7th	Tournament Cancelled Due to Covid-19
2020-21	Nikki Fargas	9-13	6-8	8th
Nikki Fargas:		176–126	80–76
Kim Mulkey (SEC) (2021–present)
2021-22	Kim Mulkey	26-vi	xiii-3	2nd	NCAA 2d Round	6	8
Kim Mulkey:		26-vi	thirteen-3
Total:		920–448
National champion  Postseason invitational champion  Briefing regular season champion  Briefing regular flavor and conference tournament champion  Partition regular season champion  Partitioning regular season and briefing tournament champion  Briefing tournament champion

Briefing tournament winners noted with #
Source: ^[iii]

Postseason [edit]

NCAA Tournament history & seeds [edit]

Years	'84	'86	'87	'88	'89	'90	'91	'97	'99	'00	'01	'02	'03	'04	'05	'06	'07	'08	'09	'ten	'12	'13	'14	'15	'17	'xviii
Seeds	v	2	4	9	four	ix	2	4	four	3	half-dozen	6	one	4	1	one	3	2	half-dozen	7	5	6	7	eleven	viii	vi

NCAA Partitioning I [edit]

Year	Seed	Circular	Opponent	Result
1984	#five	Start Circular Sweetness Sixteen	#4 Missouri #1 Louisiana Tech	Due west 92-82 L 67-92
1986	#2	Second Circular Sweet Sixteen Aristocracy Viii	#10 Middle Tenn #iii Ohio State #4 Tennessee	Westward 78-65 W 81-fourscore L 65-67
1987	#4	Second Round	#5 Southern Illinois	L 56-70
1988	#9	Starting time Round	#8 Stephen F. Austin	L 62-84
1989	#4	2d Round Sweet Xvi	#5 Purdue #1 Louisiana Tech	W 54-53 L 68-85
1990	#9	Start Round	#8 Southern Miss	L 65-75
1991	#2	Beginning Round	#10 Lamar	L 73-93
1997	#4	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#xiii Maine #12 Marquette #1 Onetime Dominion	Westward 88-79 W 71-58 50 49-62
1999	#4	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#13 Evansville #5 Notre Dame #1 Louisiana Tech	Westward 78-69 Westward 74-64 L 52-73
2000	#3	First Round Second Circular Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	#14 Liberty #11 Stephen F. Austin #2 Knuckles #i UConn	W 77-54 W 57-45 W 79-66 50 71-86
2001	#6	First Round 2d Round	#eleven Arizona State #iii Purdue	W 83-66 L seventy-73
2002	#6	First Round Second Round	#11 Santa Clara #3 Colorado	W 84-78 L 58-69
2003	#one	Get-go Round 2d Round Sweet Sixteen Elite 8	#16 Texas Country #8 Green Bay #five Louisiana Tech #2 Texas	Due west 86-50 W 80-69 West 69-63 L 60-78
2004	#4	First Round 2d Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final 4	#thirteen Austin Peay #12 Maryland #1 Texas #3 Georgia #1 Tennessee	W 83-66 Westward 76-61 W 71-55 W 62-60 50 50-52
2005	#one	Start Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Iv	#sixteen Stetson #nine Arizona #xiii Liberty #2 Duke #2 Baylor	Due west seventy-36 Due west 76-43 W ninety-48 West 59-49 Fifty 57-68
2006	#i	First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Viii Concluding 4	#16 Florida Atlantic #9 Washington #four DePaul #3 Stanford #1 Duke	W 72-48 W 72-49 W 66-56 Westward 62-59 Fifty 45-64
2007	#3	Offset Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite 8 Last Iv	#fourteen UNC Asheville #11 West Virginia #ten Florida State #1 Connecticut #4 Rutgers	W 77-39 W 49-43 W 55-43 W 73-50 50 35-59
2008	#two	First Circular 2nd Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four	#fifteen Jackson State #7 Marist #3 Oklahoma Country #1 Northward Carolina #one Tennessee	Due west 66-32 Westward 68-49 W 67-52 West 56-50 Fifty 46-47
2009	#six	First Round Second Round	#11 Green Bay #3 Louisville	W 69-59 L 52-62
2010	#7	Offset Circular Second Round	#10 Hartford #2 Duke	Due west 60-39 L 52-60
2012	#5	First Round Second Round	#12 San Diego State #four Penn State	W 64-56 L 80-90
2013	#half dozen	First Circular 2nd Circular Sweet Sixteen	#xi Green Bay #3 Penn State #2 California	W 75-71 W 71-66 Fifty 63-73
2014	#7	First Circular Second Round Sweet Sixteen	#10 Georgia Tech #ii West Virginia #3 Louisville	W 98-78 Westward 76-67 Fifty 47-73
2015	#xi	Beginning Round	#6 South Florida	50 64-73
2017	#viii	Showtime Round	#9 California	50 52-55
2018	#six	First Round	#11 Cardinal Michigan	50 69-78

AIAW Partitioning I [edit]

The Lady Tigers made one appearance in the AIAW National Partitioning I Basketball game Tournament, with a combined record of iii–1.

Year	Circular	Opponent	Event
1977	Start Round Quarterfinals Semifinals National Championship	Western Washington Baylor Immaculata Delta State	W, 91–53 W, 71–64 W, 74–68 L, 55–68

Role player awards [edit]

National awards [edit]

SEC Awards [edit]

• Player of the Year Award

Seimone Augustus - 2005, 2006

Sylvia Fowles - 2008

Prominent players [edit]

Retired numbers [edit]

No.	Member	Position	Career	Year No. Retired
33	Seimone Augustus	SG	2002–2006	2010
34	Sylvia Fowles	C	2004–2008	2017

LSU All-Americans [edit]

Histrion	Position	Year(southward)
Seimone Augustus	Chiliad	2004, 2005 (National Player of the Year), 2006 (National Player of the Year)
Pokey Chatman	G	1991
Marie Ferdinand	G	2001
Sylvia Fowles	C	2007, 2008
Julie Gross	F	1978
Joyce Walker	M	1983, 1984

Arena [edit]

Pete Maravich Assembly Centre [edit]

The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972 and is home of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in award of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, presently subsequently his death in 1988. The Maravich Center is known to locals every bit "The PMAC" or "The Palace that Pete Built," or by its more nationally known nickname, "The Deafened Dome," coined past Dick Vitale.^[4]

The slightly oval building is located direct to the north of Tiger Stadium, and its bright-white roof can be seen in many telecasts of that stadium. The arena concourse is divided into four quadrants: Pete Maravich Pass, The Walk of Champions, Heroes Hall and Midway of Memories. The quadrants highlight former LSU Tiger athletes, private and squad awards and memorabilia pertaining to the history of LSU Lady Tigers and LSU Tigers basketball teams.^[5]

Practise and Training facilities [edit]

LSU Basketball Practice Facility [edit]

The LSU Basketball Exercise Facility is the practice facility for the LSU Lady Tigers basketball game and LSU Tigers basketball game teams. The facility is connected to the Pete Maravich Associates Center through the Northwest portal. The facility features separate, full-size indistinguishable gymnasiums for the women's and men's basketball teams. They include a regulation NCAA courtroom in length with two regulation high schoolhouse courts in the opposition direction. The courts are exact replicas of the Maravich Heart game court and accept two portable goals and iv retractable goals. The gymnasiums are equipped with a scoreboard, video filming balustrade and scorer's table with video and data connectedness. The facility besides houses team locker rooms, a team lounge, training rooms, a coach'due south locker room and coach's offices.^[6]

The building also includes a 2-story lobby and staircase that ascends to the second level where a club room is used for pre-game and post-game events and is connected to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center concourse. The lobby includes team displays and graphics, trophy cases and memorabilia of LSU basketball. A 900-pound bronze statue of LSU legend Shaquille O'Neal is located in front of the facility.^[6]

LSU Force and Conditioning facility [edit]

The LSU Tigers basketball strength training and conditioning facility is located in the LSU Force and Conditioning facility. Congenital in 1997, information technology is located adjacent to Tiger Stadium.^[7] Measuring ten,000-square feet with a flat surface, it has 28 multi-purpose power stations, 36 assorted selectorized machines and x dumbbell stations along with a plyometric specific area, medicine assurance, hurdles, plyometric boxes and assorted speed and agility equipment.^[viii] It also features 2 treadmills, 4 stationary bikes, 2 elliptical cross trainers, a stepper and stepmill.^[nine]

Head coaches [edit]

Proper name	Years	Record	Pct.
Jinks Coleman	1975–1979	91–32	(.740)
Barbara Swanner	1979–1982	57–50	(.533)
Sue Gunter	1982–2004	442–221	(.667)
Pokey Chatman	2004–2007	xc–fourteen	(.865)
Bob Starkey (interim)	2007	4–one	(.800)
Van Chancellor	2007–2011	90–40	(.692)
Nikki Fargas	2011–2021	148–106	(.583)
Kim Mulkey	2021–present	23-four	(.852)

References [edit]

1. ^ "Brand Guidelines: Colors". LSUAthletics.LingoApp.com . Retrieved March fourteen, 2022.
2. ^ "Hall of Fame omnibus Mulkey leaves Baylor for LSU". ESPN.com. 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-28 .
3. ^ "Media Guide". LSU . Retrieved 11 Aug 2013.
4. ^ "Pete Maravich Associates Center, Billy Rouge". www.tvtrip.com . Retrieved eleven April 2018.
5. ^ "LSU Men'southward Basketball Facilities". lsusports.net . Retrieved eleven Apr 2018.
6. ^ ^{a b} "LSU Basketball Do Facility". lsusports.net . Retrieved 11 Apr 2018.
7. ^ "LSU Strength and Conditioning". lsusports.net. September 29, 2009. Retrieved 2013-08-28 .
8. ^ "A Strength Training Legacy" (PDF). biggerfasterstronger.com. Retrieved 2016-01-26 .
9. ^ "LSU Tigers' Weight Room". ESPN The Magazine. November fourteen, 2012. Archived from the original on Oct 23, 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-11 .

External links [edit]

• Official website

kaypirclue.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSU_Tigers_women%27s_basketball

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