LSU girls’s basketball performed with out Kateri Poole for the fifth-straight recreation on Sunday afternoon. The puzzling saga surrounding the Tigers’ key reserve continues.
Head coach Kim Mulkey refuses to supply a proof for the absence so no person is aware of what’s going on. Hopefully every part is okay. Hypothesis and conjecture will proceed to run rampant till any semblance of readability is supplied, which doesn’t appear to be coming any time quickly.
Poole, a fourth-year junior, was a five-star prospect within the girls’s school basketball recruiting Class of 2020 and was ranked as a top-25 participant in her class. She initially dedicated to Ohio State and later transferred to LSU after two seasons in Columbus.
The 5-foot-8 guard averaged 22.3 minutes per recreation throughout the nationwide championship run final season.
This 12 months has been a special story.
Poole performed simply 12.8 minutes per recreation in 4 of 9 video games earlier than disappearing from the lineup and the bench. Mulkey saved her out of the lineup in opposition to Kent State in mid-November and known as it a “coach’s choice.”
At that time, Angel Reese’s sabbatical started. Kateri Poole truly stayed with the group for its subsequent recreation however performed simply 5 minutes in opposition to Southeastern Louisiana. After which she was gone.
Reese was again within the lineup in opposition to Virginia Tech on Nov. 30. Poole, who Kim Mulkey later clarified stays on the roster, was not.
That was 10 days in the past. It has been greater than every week because the Tigers final performed as they took last exams.
LSU returned to the hardwood at house in opposition to Louisiana-Lafayette on Sunday. Poole didn’t.
There isn’t a indication as to when No. 55 is likely to be allowed again on the sideline. Contemplating that Reese was allowed to be within the fitness center and practiced a couple of occasions throughout her non-suspension suspension, Poole is likely to be with the group throughout the week. Simply not throughout video games.
We don’t know. Neither Mulkey nor the group will say. Why?
