- ABC News
- April 1, 2023
DALLAS -- LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey insists she didn't have a timeline for when she could get the program back in the hunt as a national title contender. And if she could have envisioned one, it certainly wouldn't have been this quickly. But here Mulkey was -- in her second season in Baton Rouge after her storied career at Baylor, where she won three national titles -- bringing the Tigers somewhere they'd never been before: the national championship game. The third-seeded Tigers snapped their winless streak in Final Four games (0-5 entering Friday) with a 79-72 victory over No. 1 seed Virginia Tech in the first national semifinal game at American Airlines Center on Friday night. They will play the No. 2 seed Iowa Hawkeyes for the championship on Sunday. "It's crazy I'm sitting up here," Mulkey said. "It's crazy we're getting ready to play for a national championship. I keep wanting to call somebody and go tell me how we...