Tempers flared during Thursday’s highly expected Top-25 Women’s College Basketball Matchup between LSU Tigers One-loss and Oklahoma Soners.
The game contained players who pushed-what led to broadcast-coach’s technical mistakes and a noticeable clipboard slap moment from LSU coach Kim Mulkey. The LSU tip Sa’myah Smith and Oklahoma tip Liz Scott were both thrown from the game after the cloudy incident in the first quarter.
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Head coach Kim Mulkey of LSU Lady Tigers looks at in the first half during their match against South Carolina Gamecocks in Colonial Life Arena on January 24, 2025 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)
Oklahoma Center Beatrice Culliton fought for position in the paint with Smith when the two were entangled. Culliton raised his arm to create some separation, and Smith is retaliated by pushing her to the ground. Scott, who was also in the paint area, responded by pushing Smith.
Smith was correlated by Joe Schwartz, lsus assistant for basketball operations. The teams separated and went back to their bench coming. The normally smooth -knit Smith was called for a mistake on the play and then pushed out after a review.
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“It’s like pushing, considered matches,” Mulkey said. “That (Smith’s reaction) was shocking. It hurt our team where she wasn’t part of tonight because we’re trying to develop her. My old mentor (formerly Louisiana Tech trainer), Leon Barmore, always said, That you’ve got to keep a cool head in a hot game.
Mulkey also gave a nod to the game’s entertainment value: “I guess it was entertaining for the fans.”
Games resume after the broadcasts, with Oklahoma leading 12-11. Soners took advantage of 6-foot-2 Smith’s advantage to keep it close and gather from a 24-point deficit late in the third quarter to get within a point in the last minute.
A comprehensive overview of Pete Maravich Assembly Center on March 19, 2023 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Rebecca Warren/NCAA -Photos via Getty Images)
In the third quarter, Mulkey dropped a clipboard that assistant coach Seimone Augustus had. LSU enjoyed a 67-45 lead at the time. Mulkey continued to shout and point for several seconds while Augustus seemed to fight with a brief moment of shock.
The judges later assessed a technical error after Tigers’ coach argued for a bad call against Star Guard Flau’jae Johnson. Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk also received a technical at another time in the game.
The Chippy game ended with a total of five technical errors and 63 free throwing attempts.
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“We saw a lot of things tonight,” Mulkey said. “You saw sprayers. You saw two teams score over 100. You saw a technical on the other flopp … I got teed up and she told me I was going to point the big screen. I definitely looked at it Big screen and I wasn’t really happy, but I don’t know if I’m pointing.
Tigers’ 107-100 win over the soon-to-be seventh ranked LSU’s record to 22-1.
