LSU women's basketball to face Seton Hall at Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase in 2024-25
Another piece to LSU women's basketball's nonconference schedule puzzle for the 2024-25 campaign has fallen into place.
Kim Mulkey, Aneesah Morrow, Flau'jae Johnson, Mikaylah Williams and company will take their show on the road to Connecticut this December to play Seton Hall as part of the Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Showcase to be held at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The game is schedule for Dec. 17 with a tipoff time to be announced later. UConn and Iowa State are slated to be the other game at the event.
Tickets for the game go on sale Sept. 6.
Seton Hall is the second nonconference date filled for the Tigers. Another neutral site game on Dec. 8 with instate foe Grambling State was announced a few weeks ago, a contest that will be played at Brookshire Grocery Arena in Bossier City and will serve as a homecoming game of sorts for Williams, a Bossier native.
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Per records, LSU originally entered into an agreement with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021 for a game that was slated to take place during the 2022-23 season but both parties mutually agreed to amend the game contract, which pushed the participation date for LSU back to last December but that game never happened. LSU was initially slated to face Virginia in the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase.
The program will receive $5,000 to play in the event, according to the contract, and will be responsible for all cost of travel to Connecticut. LSU will receive 75 complimentary premium tickets.
LSU still has at least 11 more nonconference games to fill to complete its 2024-25 schedule.
Mulkey's team is coming off an Elite Eight run last season where it fell to Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Albany, New York. The Tigers will look different next season as Angel Reese has graduated and moved on to the Chicago Sky in the WNBA while point guard Hailey Van Lith transferred to TCU.
But with Johnson, Morrow and Williams returning, three starters will be back for LSU and will be poised to eye another deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.
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