Live Updates: Women’s Final Four Arrives
March 31, 2023, 5:30 p.m. ET
On a Louisiana State squad full of personalities, the main draw is Angel Reese.
Reese, a 6-foot-3 forward from Baltimore who is known around Baton Rouge as the Bayou Barbie, is writing her name in L.S.U.’s record books. In the team’s regular-season finale, in front of 15,271 fans — a record for either men’s or women’s basketball at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center — she notched her 27th double-double of the season. She did it by the second quarter.
It was just the latest banner moment in a season full of them for Reese, who transferred from Maryland before the season and has become the leading player for one of Division I’s top teams. As she is swatting shots, snatching rebounds and craftily banking in scoop layups, she is playing the Baltimore way.
“I feel like that’s what separates me from a lot of players, that I have that dog mentality and I always want to go out there and win and I’m very passionate about that,” Reese said in a phone interview earlier this month. “So whoever’s in front of me, I’m going to go get it, and I’m going to talk trash to you the whole entire game, and that’s that.”
Reese, who has recorded five games with at least 20 points and 20 rebounds, has played an instrumental role as the Tigers have matched the best regular season in program history: that of the 2004-5 Final Four team that featured Sylvia Fowles and Seimone Augustus.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/31/sports/womens-final-four