Kim Mulkey

LSU coach Kim Mulkey wore tiger stripes for the NCAA championship game vs. the Iowa Hawkeyes.

for the national championship in a game that will be shown on ABC. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON

Kim Mulkey did it again, by winning yet another national title. A lot of people don't like her, but this woman mastered one thing early in her career, ...

That’s why she can get away with some of the words that come out of her mouth. In the final seconds LSU banked in a 3-pointer to eclipse 100. Some (a lot?) of it not good. Almost come to expect it. The only drama in the fourth quarter was whether Iowa could keep LSU from hitting 100. This is also what Kim Mulkey does, and why she is one of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport. She knows it, too. Because Mulkey has the better team. In a national title game. “Year 2 at LSU ... That third foul changed her game. She must have grasped from an early age that winning covers nearly all of the sins we call important, but are usually negotiable.

Kim Mulkey wasn't able to let those who are keened in on what she's wearing down for LSU women's basketball's national championship game vs. Iowa.

Follow his Tigers and Cajuns coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. [How much LSU's NCAA championship game run has made coach Kim Mulkey in bonus money](https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2023/04/01/kim-mulkey-lsu-womens-basketball-bonus-money-national-championship-run/70071275007/) Iowa: Live updates from NCAA national championship game](https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2023/04/02/lsu-womens-basketball-score-v-iowa-ncaa-national-championship-game-live-updates-final-four/70055664007/)

Kim Mulkey and LSU are bringing home the first national championship in program history after defeating Caitlin Clark and No. 2 Iowa.

The highly-anticipated post battle between LSU’s Reese and Iowa’s Czinano was quickly defined by the officiating, with each big getting called for two fouls in the first quarter. The referees were active early, calling 12 fouls in the first quarter and 21 total in the first half. Carson’s hot hand lasted all the way until the end of the half, when she banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give LSU a 59-42 halftime lead. She was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, in just her first season with LSU Monika Czinano fouled out with over six minutes to go in the game, and Iowa had no answer from there. With her 34th double-double of the season, Reese set the NCAA record for the most in a single season.

Iowa fans greeted the Hawkeyes at American Airlines Center in Dallas ahead of Sunday's NCAA women's basketball national championship game against LSU.

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We get a sneak peak of what extravagant jacket the Tigers' head coach will wear against Iowa and Caitlin Clark.

So many sequins. [nation’s top player in Caitlin Clark](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2023/03/caitlin-clark-iowa-stead-childrens-hospital-ap-national-player-of-the-year) and [her Iowa squad](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/caitlin-clark-iowa-south-carolina-amazing-shots-final-four-upset) in a game that’s guaranteed to be incredible. They’ll face the

When Kim Mulkey agreed to take over the women's basketball program at LSU, she signed an eight-year contract that paid her about $2.5 million over the first ...

The Tigers didn't win the SEC regular-season title but will obviously finish in the top 10. For winning the national championship Sunday with a 102-85 triumph over Iowa in Dallas, Mulkey will get Mulkey also receives other incentives, including $65,000 for a Southeastern Conference regular-season championship and $15,000 if LSU finishes in the top 10.

Mulkey walked into American Airlines Center in Dallas dressed in a sequin, tiger print pantsuit. The LSU coach has been largely dressed by Jaime Glas, ...

The eagerly-anticipated national title game was expected to be a showdown between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clarke, but LSU's bench players were the ones who ...

The Tigers used a 6-0 run early in the fourth quarter to stretch their lead to 83-69 and force an Iowa timeout. Following the call, Clark bounced the ball behind her back and toward the baseline and was called for a technical — her fourth foul of the game. Jill Biden attended the national championship game Sunday and was seen viewing the action from a box with tennis legend Billie Jean King, among others. She scored 16 of her first-half points and made up the majority of the Tigers’ 30-8 advantage in bench points. Shortly after a strange stoppage in which referees reviewed an apparent elbow by Czinano on a bucket of hers with 2:58 left, the Iowa forward/center was called for her fourth foul. LSU and Iowa feature national sensations, but it was the Tigers’ bench, especially graduate transfer Jasmine Carson, that was the catalyst in their 102-85 win.

Kim Mulkey crouched down and cried in the final seconds of the NCAA Title game, where LSU defeated Iowa 102-85.

LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey crouched down and shed tears in the final seconds of the NCAA championship game as the Tigers won the first national title in program history. Mulkey shared a few tears of joy on the sideline as the Tigers enjoyed an extensive lead over the Iowa Hawkeyes with 53.7 seconds left, knowing she'd win her fourth national title in her second year with LSU. LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey cries in final seconds of NCAA championship win for home state

Kim Mulkey has coached today on the brink of her fourth-ever NCAA Tournament championship. Her intensity is part of what's led her LSU Tigers to this point ...

LSU winning a national championship with Kim Mulkey is no surprise. Now that the Tigers are on top, they'll be tough to knock off the throne.

[, Mulkey kneeled, bowed her head and teared up](https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2023/04/02/kim-mulkey-cries-lsu-national-championship-womens-basketball-iowa/70073797007/) before accepting a hug from Kateri Poole, one of her transfer additions. [Blake Toppmeyer](https://www.knoxnews.com/staff/2648210001/blake-toppmeyer/) is an SEC Columnist for the USA TODAY Network. [a digital subscription](https://subscribe.theadvertiser.com/) that will allow you access to all of it. Ordinarily, the 3-pointer is not LSU's linchpin, but Mulkey encouraged her squad to embrace open looks. The Tigers hit the shots the Gamecocks couldn’t. Carson had totaled 11 points in the tournament’s first five games. But, LSU’s sidekicks catapulted the Tigers to the peak. I played with a personality myself,” Mulkey told ESPN after the game, while she shimmered in a sparkly gold, pink and black striped suit. New eyeballs were treated to Caitlin Clark’s deep 3-pointers for Iowa, Alexis Morris’ clutch midrange jumpers and LSU’s supporting cast delivering a herculean performance throughout the second quarter, while Reese and Morris were sidelined with foul trouble. Transfers will continue to view LSU as a marquee destination. The scary part for LSU’s competition? In two years, Mulkey transformed a nine-win program into national champions.

At the end of the game, LSU star Angel Reese drew attention for appearing to taunt Clark as the Tigers celebrated. Clark had done the same after Iowa beat South ...

As she usually does, Clark buried multiple tough shots to keep the Hawkeyes alive, but Iowa could not stop LSU on the other end of the floor. Clark had done the same after Iowa beat South Carolina on Friday in the national semifinal game. The Hawkeyes star set the NCAA Tournament record for most points of the course of March Madness thanks to yet another big game.

In just her second season back home in Louisiana, the Tigers are national champions after their decisive win over Iowa.

A bigger problem was Clark had to sit with three fouls after an incredible start herself, posting 16 points and five assists before the break. Carson had her LSU teammates sprinting off the bench after she banked in a buzzer-beater before the half, her 21st point of the game. LSU put on an absolute shooting clinic in the first half to go into halftime with a 59-42 lead that had their fans screeching “L-S-U! Clark and Czianano weren’t the only Hawkeyes to deal with foul trouble as Warnock also ended up fouling out. She was 5 for 5 from three-point range coming off the bench in the first half. I don’t fit in the box that you all want me to be in. The Baltimore native set the LSU and SEC single-season rebounding record after initially planning to transfer to Tennessee or South Carolina, but went for a recruiting trip with Kateri Poole, fell in love and canceled all other trips. “So this is for the girls that look like me, that want to speak up on what they believe in. Mulkey took the program from nine wins in 2020-21 to 26 in her first year, to winning it all in year No. The 102 points are a record for the championship game. She bolstered the roster through the transfer portal with DALLAS — Kim Mulkey wiped away tears with under a minute remaining in the NCAA women’s basketball championship game Sunday afternoon.

Mulkey's L.S.U. players say they appreciate her tough approach. But her relationship with Brittney Griner continues to receive scrutiny.

Griner has said she respected Mulkey’s disciplined approach to coaching at Baylor and appreciated the way Mulkey defended her against brutal taunting at games. “When I came to L.S.U., I needed a coach to keep it real with me. The emotions on Mulkey’s face served as a kind of play-by-play during the game, from celebration to anguish to anger. “We like sparkles, we like diamonds, we like Mardi Gras, we like to eat, and we like to party.” There appears to still be tension between Mulkey and Maryland Coach Brenda Frese, whose team the star Angel Reese left to join L.S.U. And I think that transcends any of the X’s and O’s.” And you’ve got to put some respect on Coach Kim Mulkey.” “I may snicker sometimes at the way she does things,” U.C.L.A. “But you’ve got to put some respect on L.S.U. Earlier, when she grew upset, she stomped her feet and clapped in a referee’s face and mimicked Clark throwing an elbow to free herself for shots. Arizona Coach Adia Barnes, who took her team to the 2021 national championship game, said she believed that Mulkey’s strategic maneuvers were underrated. Her most recent came in only her second season at L.S.U., with nine new players on the roster.

Kim Mulkey and LSU are bringing home the first national championship in program history after defeating Caitlin Clark and No. 2 Iowa.

The highly-anticipated post battle between LSU’s Reese and Iowa’s Czinano was quickly defined by the officiating, with each big getting called for two fouls in the first quarter. The referees were active early, calling 12 fouls in the first quarter and 21 total in the first half. Carson’s hot hand lasted all the way until the end of the half, when she banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give LSU a 59-42 halftime lead. She was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, in just her first season with LSU Monika Czinano fouled out with over six minutes to go in the game, and Iowa had no answer from there. With her 34th double-double of the season, Reese set the NCAA record for the most in a single season.

The women's Final Four was highlighted by dominant performances all weekend from the nation's best players. Forty-one points from Caitlin Clark in the ...

After 21 years at Baylor, she led LSU to the national title in just her second season with the program with nine new players on her roster. “In my five years here, I’ve seen the game grow in a way I never thought it could,” Clark said. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. The starters for both sides re-entered at the start of the third, and LSU cooled off slightly. Iowa star guard Clark started the game hot with 14 points in the first quarter, including four made 3s. “This was all about the supporting cast. “It’s very frustrating because I didn’t even feel like I could talk to them,” Bluder said of the refs. “I’ve been working hard my whole life,” Carson said in the postgame press conference. Carson, the team’s sixth woman, had scored just 11 points in the tournament entering Sunday’s contest. LSU (34-2) became only the third 3-seed to win the title and first since 1997. Forty-one points from Caitlin Clark in the semifinal. The women’s Final Four was highlighted by dominant performances all weekend from the nation’s best players.